At the port of Cherbourg, France and at Queenstown, Ireland, the rest of the “lucky” passengers were boarded and on April 11, 1912, the fateful journey to the USA began
On April 10, 1912, Wednesday, in an atmosphere of excitement, the British ocean liner Titanic (official name: RMS Titanic), departed from Southampton, England for its maiden voyage to the USA with 922 passengers.
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Captained by Edward Smith, its passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia, and other regions throughout Europe, who were seeking a new life in North America.
Watch the video: Captain Smith inspects the Titanic for the last time before leaving Southampton
In the port of Cherbourg in France and in Queenstown, Ireland, the rest of the “lucky” passengers of the unsinkable – as it was described – ship boarded and on April 11, 1912, the fateful journey to the USA began.
On April 14, 1912, she collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship time and the inflow of water and the evacuation with the lifeboats began.
Just before 2:20 A.M. the ship broke in two and began to sink, with more than a thousand people still aboard.
One hour and twenty minutes after the Titanic sank, the Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Carpathia arrived at the site of the sinking, picking up only 720 survivors out of a total of 2,224 passengers and crew.
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