"This is the most wonderful boat you can think of. In length it would reach from the corner of the Rue de la Paix to about the Rue de Rivola. Everything imaginable: swimming pool, Turkish bath, gymnasium, squash courts, cafes, tea gardens, smoking rooms, a lounge bigger than the Grand Hotel Lounge; huge drawing rooms, and bed rooms larger than in the average Paris Hotel. It is a monster, and I can't say I like it, as I feel as if I were in a big hotel, instead of on a cozy ship; everyone is so stiff and formal. There are hundreds of help, bell boys, stewards, stewardesses and lifts. To say the ship is wonderful is unquestionable, but not the cozy ship board feeling of former years."
-Edith Russell, First Class Passenger

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Many of crew didn't know each other, and didn't know their responsibilty, they were unprepared, weren't sure of duties, didn't know alot to do, even senior officers were overwelmed.

"You could actually walk miles along the deck and passages covering different ground all the time, I was throughly familliar with prewell every type of ship afloat, but it took me 14 days before I could with confidence find my way from one part of that ship to another"
- Second Officer Lightoller - RMS Titanic

The Titanic heads into her final sunset. Sunday, April 14, 1912 - 7:00 p.m.

Lawrence Beesley, 2nd Class Passenger:
"Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow."

"as dusk fell the coast rounded away from us to the northwest, and the last we saw of Europe was the Irish mountains dim and faint in the dropping darkness. Many things would happen to us all, many experiences, sudden, vivid, and impressive to be in countered, before we saw land again."
- Lawrence Beesley

Early signs of trouble. Sunday, April 14, 1912 - 11:59 p.m.

Norman Chambers, First Class Passenger:
"... I looked at the starboard end of our passageway, where there was the companion leading to the quarters of the mail clerks and farther on to the baggage room, and I believe, the mail sorting room, and at the top of these stairs I found a couple of mail clerks wet to their knees, who had just come up from below, bringing their registered mail bags. As the door in the bulkhead in the next deck was open, I was able to look directly into the trunk room which was then filled with water, and within 18" or 2 feet of the deck above. We were standing there joking about our baggage being completely soaked and about the correspondence which was seen floating about on the top of the water. While we were standing there three of the ship's officers descended the first companion and looked into the baggage room, coming back up immediately, saying that we were not making any more water. This was not an announcement, but merely a remark passed from one to the other. Then my wife and myself returned in the direction of our stateroom, a matter of a few yards only, and as we were going down our own alleyway to the stateroom door our room steward came by and told us that we could go on back to bed again, that there was no danger."

When Capt. Smith told wireless room to send for help; April 15 1912, 12:15am When Capt. Smith told Phillips to send SOS; April 15, 1912, 12:45 am

"Phillips began to send CQD, he flashed away at it and we joked while he did so. All of us made light of the disaster, the humor of the situation appealed to me. I hit him with a little remark that made us all laugh, including the captain, "Send SOS," I said, "It's the new call. And it may your last chance to send it."
Harold Bride - Assistant Marconi Officer

While rockets are being fired on ship. April 15, 1912, 12:45 am

"with a gasping sigh, one word escaped the lips of the crowd, rockets. Anybody knows what rockets at sea mean."
- Lawrence Beasley.

As she was being urged to enter a lifeboat.

"He kissed me goodbye and placed me in a lifeboat with the assistence of an officer. As the boat was being lowered he yelled from the deck, "keep your hands in your pockets, it's very cold weather!" I remember the many husbands that turned their backs as that small boat was lowered. The woman blistyfully innocent of their husbands *parrel*. And said goodbye, with the expectation of seeing them withen the next hour or two."
- Mrs. Lucian Philip Smith

"There ma'dam if your saved, pray for me."
- Anynomous male after giving Winnie Coutts his lifebelt.

In the water. Monday, April 15, 1912 - 2:25 a.m.

"What impressed me at the time that my eyes beheld the horrible scene was a thin light-gray smoky vapor that hung like a pall a few feet above the broad expanse of sea that was covered with a mass of tangled wreckage. That it was a tangible vapor, and not a product of my imagination, I feel well assured. It may have been caused by smoke or steam rising to the surface around the area where the ship had sunk. At any rate it produced a supernatural effect, and the pictures I had seen by Dante and the description I had read in my Virgil of the infernal regions of Charon, and the River Leth, were then uppermost in my thoughts. Add to this, within the area described, which was as far as my eyes could reach, there arose to the sky the most horrible sounds ever heard by mortal man except by those of us who survived this terrible tragedy. The agonizing cries of death from over a thousand throats, the wails and groans of the suffering, the shrieks of the terror-stricken and the awful gaspings for breath of those in the last throes of drowning, none of us will ever forget to our dying day."
- Archibald Gracie, First Class Passenger

"It must have been terrifying once the water had gotten into the ship so far once the ship had sunk so deeply that it actually started to flood passenger areas, to see the water slowly creeping up the stairs, at the lower staicase, the former first class staircase, went down to e deck, and to stand on the boat deck and look over this banaster, this bow (), and look down through this open well, through five decks, and be able actaully see sea water swirling around down there, and creeping, just creeping higher and higher with every minute. The green seawater, they said that light still glowed green underneath the seawater for a time."
- Ken Marschall, historian, Artist,
Titanic; An Illustrated History.

About the turned over Collapsable B in the water

"How anyone that saught refuge on that upturn boat survived the night is nothing short of miraculaous. Some quietly lost contiousness and slipped overboard. No one was in any condition to help."
- Officer Lightoller on collapsable B

"There was just room for me to crawl on the edge. I lay there, not careing what happened. Someone said 'Don't you think we ought to pray?' Each man called out his own religion. It was decided that the most appropiate prayer for all of us was the lords prayer. We spoke it over in chorus."
- Harold Bride