Sometime in the night the lifeboats are removed from the dock where they’d been left the night before and placed in storage in the second floor loft of the White Star pier. White Star officials learn that the only tangible remains of Titanic – the 13 lifeboats Carpathia had brought ashore – had been picked clean of their nameplates. It was not until 1985 that the wreck of the ship was discovered in two pieces on the ocean floor.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu James Moody was on night watch when the collision happened and took the call from the watchman, asking him 'What do you see?' The man responded: 'Iceberg, dead ahead.'īy 2.20am, with hundreds of people still on board, the ship plunged beneath the waves, taking many, including Moody, with it.ĭespite repeated distress calls being sent out and flares launched from the decks, the first rescue ship, the RMS Carpathia, arrived nearly two hours later, pulling more than 700 people from the water. On April 14, 1912, four days into the crossing, she hit an iceberg at 11:40pm ship's time. There were not enough lifeboats on board for all the passengers due to out-of-date maritime safety regulations.Īfter leaving Southampton on April 10, 1912, Titanic called at Cherbourg in France and Queenstown in Ireland before heading to New York. It had an on-board gym, libraries, swimming pool and several restaurants and luxury first class cabins. The ship was the largest afloat at the time and was designed in such a way that it was meant to be 'unsinkable'. Millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to his family's mining business, also perished, along with Isidor Straus, the German-born co-owner of Macy's department store. Some of the wealthiest people in the world were on board, including property tycoon John Jacob Astor IV, great grandson of John Jacob Astor, founder of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. More than 1,500 people died when the ship, which was carrying 2,224 passengers and crew, sank under the command of Captain Edward Smith. RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The RMS Titanic is pictured in Belfast before it made its way to Southampton ahead of its maiden voyage in April 1912 He also rejected suggestions he used an alias to 'hide' his identity in emails authorising capital expenditure. This week, Palmer denied claims that his company was in financial difficulty when about AUD$6million (£2.9million) was directed to his political party. Questions are now being asked about funds directed from Queensland Nickel to his Palmer United Party and involvement in any internal corporate dealings after he resigned his directorship.
Palmer, a 61-year-old MP in Australia's House of Representatives, is a controversial figure Down Under and has been in the public firing line after his Queensland Nickel business went into voluntary administration, leaving the jobs of more than 200 workers in limbo. Yet there is still some uncertainty as to whether the controversial ship will ever be built. Palmer announced the project in 2012, when he told reporters Titanic II would be built at the CSC Jinling Shipyard in China.Ī 2016 launch was planned and there was speculation in 2015 that the project had been abandoned after construction failed to get off the ground, but last September a spokesman for Palmer told the Belfast Telegraph that the launch would be delayed until 2018. First class passengers on board the Titanic sailed in the lap of luxury and had access to electric lifts with attendants and sofas
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