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"The Wreck of the Titan" is written
This book was a prophecy of the what would later happen to the Titanic. It was when a big boat that was said to be "unsikable" actually sunk when it hit an iceberg -
plans are made to make a real Titanic
nearly ten years after The Wreck of the Titan is written, plans are made to make a real titanic when 2 men talk over wine and cigars -
12:45pm
The first lifeboat was lowered -
The Titanics passengers began arriving
The titnics passengers started to arrive in Southampton for the trip to New York. -
The Titanic cast off
At noon the Titanic cast off and the as they where going down the River Test, the passenger boat New York had started to pull toward the titanic after it's ropes had snapped and just barely missed each other. -
The ship recieved 3 more iceberg warnings
The radio room of the ship had recieved three more iceberg warnings and when 22 year old Harold Bride took the iceberg warnings up to Captain Smith he seemed unconcerned. -
11:40 pm
Fred Fleet saw the iceberg right ahead and yelled to them to try and stop and go around it but they still scraped the side an ice was on the deck -
12:30pm
Captain Smith gave the orders to start loading the lifeboats -women and children first -
1:30am
The bow was well down, and people were starting to notice the slant of the decks -
2:05
There were still over 1,500 people left on the sinking ship and there were no lifeboats left to be lowered -
about 2:30am
The Titanic sinks and the people in the lifeboats watched -
launch of the hull of the Titanic
The hull of the titanic was launched at the Hartland and Wolf shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, before a cheering crowd of 100,000. Bands played, and people came from miles around to see the great wonder of the sea.
