August 15, 1620
The Mayflower leaves the port of Southampton for America. This is same port is later used by the White Star Line and the Titanic.

1768
James Watt invents the Steam engine.

1839
The Cunard Line is formed.

July 4, 1840
Cunards 1,154-ton ship Britannia began its maiden voyage, marking the introduction of steamships to the north Atlantic. It could carry 115 passengers and it took 12 days and 10 hours to go from Liverpool to Halifax at a speed of 8.5 knots.

1845
The White Star Line is founded by Threlfall Wilson

1846
The locomotive is invented

1847
The Germans build a 1,640-ton ship called the Washington. It could carry 300 people. It was so successful that the Germans began their own passenger line, setting the stage for conflicts that would last until after WWII.

1853
Harland and Wolff (which was at this time known as Hickinson and Company) begin the construction of ships.

1859
Edward J. Harland Buys Hickinson and Company outright.

1861
Gustav Wolff joins Harland.

1862
By now the ship yard is known as Harland and Wolff. They built their first three ships for the Libby line. They had over 1,500 ship orders in their 139 year history. They employed: marine architects, draftsmen, interior designers, decorators, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, woodworkers, caulkers, molders, cloofmen???, heater boys, older-ups, and shell platers.

Bruce Ismay is born.

1863/64
The White Star Line aquired its first its first steamship, the 2,033 ton Royal Standard. It suffered a collision with an iceberg on April 4, 1864 while returning from its maiden voyage. She was able to safely make it to Rio de Janeiro for repairs.

January 11, 1866
The Steamer "London" bound for Melbourne, Australia sinks in the Bay of Biscay. 220 lives were lost.

October 3, 1866
The steamer "Evening Star" from New York to New Orleans sinks. 250 lives were lost.

1867
Thomas Henry Ismay purchases the White Star Line, then known as the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, LTD., after it had financial troubles.

October 29, 1867
50 vessels are driven ashore off of St. Thomas West Indies by a hurricane. 1,000 lives were lost.

1869
The Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. is formed in Liverpool by Thomas Ismay to operate
the ships under the name and flag of the White Star Line.

1870
Ismay founds a partnership with William Imrie and creates a company called Ismay Imrie and Co. They soon contacted Harland and Wolff in Belfast to build their fleet of ships.

The electric generator is invented.

*1871
Harland and Wolff build the Oceanic the pioneer ship of the company.????

January 22, 1873
A British steamer "Northfleet" is sunk in a collision off of Bungeness. 300 lives are lost.

1873
Thomas Andrews is born.

November 23, 1873
The White Star Liner "Atlantic" is wrecked. 547 lives were lost.

December 26, 1874
The immigrant ship "Cospatrick" catches fire and sinks off Auckland.

1874
The White Star Liner Britannic is completed.

1875
The White Star Liner Germanic is completed.

May 7, 1875
The steamship "Shilliller wrecked in the fog on Scilly Island. 200 lives are lost.

November 4, 1875
The steamer "Pacific" is in a collision 30 miles Southwest of Cape Flattery. 236 lives are lost.

1885
Carl Benz invents the automobile.

October 2, 1887
Violet Jessop is born in Argentina.

1889
The White Star Liner Teutonic and Majestic are launched.

1891
Thomas Ismay’s eldest son, J. Bruce Ismay is made a partner of White Star Lines.

1892
Thomas Ismay Retires.

1894
Molly Brown Strikes it rich.

1895
The wireless telegraph is invented.

1897
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse won the Blue Ribband for speed by crossing the Atlantic at 22.5 knots.

1898
An American author named Morgan Robertson publishes a novel named "Futility". It is about a British passenger liner called the Titan that hits an iceberg in April and sinks on her maiden voyage. The boat is poorly equipped with lifeboats and over 1,000 people die.

1899
The White Star Liner Germanic commanded by E. J. Smith capsizes in New York harbor as a result of heavy icing.

1902
White Star Lines are taken over by International Mercantile Marine Company created by J. Pierpoint Morgan.???

December, 1902
White Star Line is passed out of British control.???

1903
Construction begins on a new dry-dock at Harland and Wolff shipyards.

One of the first distress messages is sent out using the newly created C.Q.D.

1904
Ismay becomes president of the International Mercantile Marine Co.

1906
A British navel architect can now claim that "we may without exaggeration liken the saloons of our best ocean liners to the halls of Kings’ palaces.

Another great disaster, the San Francisco earthquake occurs.

The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin created the SOS as a distress message because of its simplicity in Morse code.

1907
Plans are made by J. Bruce Ismay and Lord James Pierre to build two luxury ships, the Olympic and the Titanic, with a third, the Gigantic to follow in a year or two.

The Lusitania is built for the Cunard Lines.(1906/1907)???

Captain Smith says "I cannot imagine any situation which would cause a ship to
founder…. Modern day shipbuilding has gone beyond that.

1908
SOS officially supersedes C.Q.D

December 16, 1908
The first keel plate is laid and construction on the Olympic begins in Belfast, Ireland in slip number two.

January 1909
The last hull frame for the Olympic is raised into place.

March 31, 1909
The first keel plate is laid and construction of the Titanic begins in Belfast, Ireland.

May 15, 1909
The Titanic is framed to the height of the double bottom.

1909
The White Star Liner Republic sinks. A wireless distress call is responsible for saving the lives of 1,600 passengers on the Republic when it collided with another ship the Florida.

April, 1910
The shell plating of the Olympic is complete and almost entirely riveted.

April 6, 1910
The Titanic is fully framed.

October 19, 1910
The Titanic’s shell plating is complete.

October 20, 1910
The Olympic is launched.

1911
The dry dock is completed at Harland and Wolff. It becomes the largest in the world.

April 1, 1911
The Olympic is dry docked

May, 1911
The Olympic is completed.

May 29, 1911
The Olympic leaves for her sea trials shortly after 9:00.

May 31, 1911
12:13 p.m.: The hull of the R.M.S Titanic is launched.

*3:00/4:30 p.m.: The Olympic leaves for Liverpool.

June 3, 1911
The Olympic arrives in Southampton and docks.

June 14, 1911
The Olympic leaves on her maiden voyage.

June 21, 1911
The Olympic arrives in New York on its maiden voyage, and is greeted by 12 tugboats. Captain E.J. Smith damages one of the tugboats while guiding the Olympic into her berth in New York on her maiden voyage.

September 20, 1911
The Olympic collides with the battle ship H.M.S. Hawke and needs to return to Harland and Wolff for repairs that will delay the Titanic’s completion.

January 1912
Sixteen wooden lifeboats, along with four collapsible canvas-side lifeboats, are fitted aboard the Titanic.

February 3, 1912
The Titanic is dry docked in order for the propellers to be installed, and the last coat of paint applied.

February 1912
The Titanics maiden voyage was originally scheduled for this month but due to several delays because of the Olympic mishaps, it was rescheduled for April 10.

March 31, 1912
The out fitting of the Titanic is complete.

April 1, 1912
The Titanic is scheduled to leave Belfast for her sea trials, but because of a strong northwesterly wind it is delayed.

April 2, 1912
Titanic makes her test runs shortly after 10:00.

8:00p.m.: The Titanic leaves Belfast for Southampton which was 570 miles away.

April 3, 1912
The Titanic passes the Olympic off of Portland (England). This was their only encounter at sea.

The Titanic arrives at her special dock in Southampton for the first time.

The Olympic leaves on a voyage as planned. Its third class dining saloon crammed with coal to insure she would have enough for her voyage because of the coal strike.

Friday, April 5, 1912
The decoration of the Titanic starts before her maiden voyage

Saturday, April 6, 1912
This was recruitment day for the majority of the crew. General cargo has begun to arrive. By the end of the day, most of the operating crew has been obtained. In addition to the many pieces of cargo, over 5,800 tons of coal is loaded through the side coaling ports---a messy business. Following that, each railing, deck, staircase, and passageway had to be cleaned thoroughly, to remove the fine coating of black dust that spread everywhere.

Easter Sunday, April 7, 1912
The Titanic remains tied up at Berth 44. No smoke or steam rises out of her funnels. The ships bell rings across the harbor marking the passing hours and her Blue Ensign flag fluttered on her stern flag staff. These were the last quiet hours the Titanic would ever know.

Monday, April 8, 1912
The Titanic remains tied up at Southampton’s berth 44, getting ready for her scheduled maiden voyage on Wednesday. Monday saw resumption of the activity but at a more frantic pace, with only three days before departure. Fresh food supplies are taken aboard, being brought by train to the dock and carted over to the ship. All last minute details are overseen by her builder Thomas Andrews as well as problems encountered during her
short trip from Belfast. Andrews would stay on board until 6:30 this evening when he would return to the Harland and Wolff offices to sign letters and conduct other office business.

Tuesday, April 9, 1912
This will be the Titanic’s final full day in Southampton---tomorrow she begins her maiden voyage. Food and other stores continue to be taken aboard. All officers except the captain spend the night aboard the ship, keeping watches and supervising the final night in port.

Wednesday, April 10, 1912
7:30 a.m.: Captain Smith Boards the Titanic
9:30 a.m.: Boat trains begin to arrive with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class passengers from waterloo station near London/the boat train pulls out of waterloo station????.
10:00 a.m.: Lawrence Beesley boards with two friends that came to see him off.

The crew is mustered and the lifeboat drill (boats #11 and 15 were lowered, floated, and raised again) is done.

J.J Astor and his wife arrive.
12:00 p.m.: The Titanic casts off and is towed from the dock by tugs.
5:30 p.m.: The Titanic arrives in Cherbourg, France
*8:10/8:30p.m.\2\: The anchor is raised and the Titanic leaves for Queenstown, Ireland.

Thursday, April 11, 1912

11:30 a.m.: The Titanic is riding anchor in the Queenstown harbor.
1:30 p.m.: Her Starboard anchor is raised for the last time, and the last known picture is taken of the Titanic for 73 years.

An emergency drill takes place below decks complete with alarm bells and the closing of the watertight doors. ???

As the Titanic leaves Ireland a French Fishing vessel comes near, so near that they get splashed from the spray from the Titanics bow. The Titanic responds to their cheers by giving them a short blast from the whistles.

Ismay approaches Chief engineer bell and tells him he wants the ships speed to be opened up on Monday or Tuesday weather permitting.

Friday, April 12, 1912
At daybreak the Titanic is well out in to the Atlantic. Everybody’s admiration of the ship increases: for the way she behaved and for the total absence of vibration. The weather was clear and good. They received messages from the Empress of Britain and the La Touraine, both of which offered good wishes and ice warnings.

11:00 p.m.: The Wireless system breaks down.

Saturday, April, 13, 1912
5:00 a.m.: The Wireless is fixed.
10:30 a.m.: Captain Smith/Thomas Andrews? begins the daily inspection.
12:00 p.m.: The fire in the coalbunker #10 is put out but the bulkhead in the surrounding area showed signs of heat damage. A stoker was told to rub oil over the affected areas. .

Sunday, April, 14, 1912
9:00 a.m.: A wireless message from the SS Corona is received. It says "Captain Titanic-West Bound steamers report bergs, growlers and field ice in 42N from 51W, 12th April Complements Barr.
10:30 a.m.: Church service is held in the first Class Dining saloon.
*11:49/11:40 a.m.: The Noordam radios and says "Much ice".
1:30 a.m.: A lifeboat drill is scheduled, but is canceled
1:42 a.m.: The Baltic warns "Captain Smith Titanic. Have had moderate variable winds and clear fine weather since leaving. Greek steamer Athina reports passing icebergs and large quantity of field ice in 41 degrees 51’ N, 40 degrees 52’ W. Last night we spoke with the German oil tanker Deutschland, Stettin to Philadelphia, not under control, short of coal; latitude 40.42 north, longitude 55.11, wishes to be reported to New York and
other steamers. Wish you and Titanic all success." ]
4:30 p.m: The Titanic was scheduled to alter her course from Southwest to West-Northwest in a maneuver known as The Corner. However in an attempt to avoid icebergs it was decided they would make the maneuver at 5:15 which was also later delayed.
5:03 p.m.: The Eastbound liner America warns "Two icebergs in 41 degrees 27’ N. 50 degrees 8’ W on April 14."
5:30 p.m.: The air begins to chill and passengers abandon their deck chairs for the warm interior of the ship.
*5:45/6:00 p.m.: Smith alters course slightly to the South and West of the normal course causing the ship to travel an additional 16 miles Southwest. She was now on a course of South 86, West (True)

Lightoller begins his watch.

6:30 p.m.: A warning is intercepted "Latitude 42.3 N longitude 49.9 W. Three large bergs five miles to the Southwest of us.
7:00 p.m.: The temperature is 43 degrees
7:15 p.m.: Samuel Hemmings reports that all the ships navigational lights are lit. He then closed the forward hatch because the light coming from it interfered with sight.?????? Lightoller is at dinner at this time.
7:30 p.m.: 3 warning messages concerning large icebergs are intercepted from the Californian indicating that ice is now only fifty miles away.
7:35 p.m.: Lightoller returns to the bridge after dinner.

The temperature has fallen to 33 degrees.

The Titanic intercepts a warning from the nearby Californian. It says "42 degrees 3’ N. 49 degrees 9’ W. Three large bergs to the west of us."

8:30 p.m.: The temperature is now 31 degrees.
8:40 p.m.: Concerned about the fresh water tanks freezing, Lightoller sends the ships carpenter down to look after the fresh water supply.
8:55 p.m.: Smith arrives on the bridge and discusses the weather with Lightoller.
*9:20/9:30 p.m.: Smith retires for the night with the usual order to rouse him "if it becomes at all doubtful".

Lightoller orders sixth officer Moody to contact the crows nest and tell them to keep a sharp lookout for ice and growlers. Moody neglected to mention growlers over the telephone so Lightoller told him to go back and add the part about the growlers.

The Titanic is speeding along at 22.5 knots.

9:40 p.m.: A heavy ice pack and iceberg warning is received from the Mesba. It says, "From Mesba to Titanic and all east/west??? bound ships. Ice reported in lat. 42.25N long 49 long 50. 30W. Saw much heavy icepack and great number of large bergs. Also field ice. Weather good, clear." This message was not given to the bridge.
10:00 p.m.: 1st officer Murdoch relieves Lightoller. He is given the order to be on the lookout for ice. The temperature is 31/32? degrees.

The lights in the third class public rooms are turned down to encourage passengers to go to bed.

By now, if all of the iceberg messages had been put together, it would have shown a 78 mile long ice field directly in front of the Titanic.

They see a ship approaching off the starboard bow. It is the Rappahannock. They contact the Titanic with the morse lamp. Two hours earlier she had been through a maze of icebergs and she had severe damage to her rudder. The Titanic receives this message but ignores it. The ice-field is now 40 miles ahead.

10:30 p.m.: Some 10-19 miles North of the Titanic, the Californian is stopped by ice and sends out warnings to the ships in the area.(10:55???)

The Titanic is registering 45 knots every 2 hours.

The temperature is 31 degrees.

10:55 p.m.: 24 of the 29 boilers are now fired.

*11:00 p.m.: Senior wireless operator Jack Phillips tells the Californian wireless operator to "Shut up! I’m working at Cape Race." After the Californian tried to warn them of ice.
11:10 p.m.: Third Officer Victor Groves of the Californian sees lights of a vessel (Titanic) racing up from the east on the starboard side.
11:30 p.m.: With a half an hour left on duty, lookouts Fleet and Lee have the forward hatches secured so the light from them didn’t interfere with their vision.

Fleet and Lee note a slight haze appearing directly in front of them.

The Californians wireless operator turns off his set and goes to bed. ?11:35?

Groves knocks on the door to the chart room (on the Californian) and tells Captain
Stanley Lord about the ship to the east.

11:40 p.m.: Fleet sees a large iceberg dead ahead, and calls the bridge from the telephone in the crows nest. Sixth officer Moody acknowledges the call and relays the message to Murdoch who instinctively orders "Hard-a-starboard" and telegraphs the engine rooms to stop all engines, and then full astern. He also closes the watertight doors. The Titanic slowly begins to veer to port, but an underwater spur from the passing berg scraps and bumps along the starboard hull forward for about 300 feet, fully opening five forward compartments to the sea. Engineer Mesketh and firemen Barett have to jump through the watertight doors as they are closing.

Stewards are turning down the lights in the now empty first class public rooms.

10 Miles away, Groves sees the lights of the approaching ship suddenly go out. He assumes this is regular nighttime practice, when actuality it was the Titanic making a sudden turn to port.

11:50 p.m.: Water has already risen 14 feet within the first 2 compartments.

Water is swirling around the foot of the spiral stairs in cargo hold #2. Water pours in so fast that escaping air forces up a hatch cover and hisses out the forepeak tanks.

The Titanic is listing 5 degrees to starboard.

4000 cubic feet of water have already spilled into the Titanic???????.

Most of the pierced compartments are flooded to the top.

11:55 p.m.: Fifteen minutes after the collision, the post office on "G" deck forward is already flooding.

The mailroom is flooded with 2’ of water.

Monday, April 15, 1912
12:00 a.m.: The mailroom, 22’ above the keel is flooded and the squash court, 32’, above keel, is awash. Smith is told his ship will not float. He gives the order for a distress call to be sent out.

The ship has taken on 7,450 tons of water.

Most of the boilers have been shut down and she is blowing off excess steam.

Lawrence Beesley begins to notice a tilt to the decks.

12:05 a.m.: Orders are given to get the lifeboats uncovered, and all passengers and crew on deck.

12:10 a.m.: Crew members begin noticing what is thought to be a tramp steamers lights.

Fourth officer Boxhall rushes into Lightollers room and tells him they’ve struck an iceberg and they need his help.

Smith arrives in the wireless room for the second time since the collision. He told the two operators to send distress messages.

12:15 a.m.: Wallace Hartley and his band begin to play lively ragtime tunes in the 1st class lounge on "A" deck.

The ship La Provence receives Titanic distress signals.

The ship Mount Temple hears Titanic sending C.Q.D. It says "Require assistance." He then gives his position "Cannot hear me. Advise my captain his position 41.46N 50.74W.

Third officer Groves from on Californian tries to see if he can make the wireless work after its operator goes to bed. He gives up when he doesn’t hear anything.

12:18 a.m.: Ypiranga hears C.Q.D from the Titanic. Position 41.44N 50.24W. Requires
assistance.

The North German Lloyd Steamer Frankfort sends a clear "Ok…stand by".

12:20 a.m.: The crew area, 20m/65.6’?? above the keel is under water.

The boats are swung out.

12:25 a.m.: Captain Smith gives the order to start loading lifeboats with women and children.

Carpathia receives a C.Q.D call from Titanic. Titanic says, "Come at once. We have struck a berg. It’s a C.Q.D.U.M. Pos. 41.46N. 50.14W."

12:26 a.m.: M.G.Y (The Titanic’s official call number) says "C.Q.D. Hear (is) corrected position 41.46N. 50.15W. Require immediate assistance. We have (had a) collision with iceberg. Sinking. Can nothing hear for noise of steam." This message was sent 15 to 20 times to the Ypiranga.
12:27 a.m.: The Titanic sends the following: "I require assistance immediately. Struck by iceberg in 41.46N. 50.15W."
12:30 a.m.: The Titanic gives his position to the Frankfurt and says Mount Temple hears M.G.Y (Titanic) still calling C.Q.D. Their captain reverses ship. They are about 50 miles away.

J.J. Astor slices open a life vest in the gymnasium, to show his wife what’s inside.

After a drink of whiskey, chief baker Charles Loughlin returns to the boat deck.

Orders come for third class stewards telling them to send third class women and children to the boat deck.

Colonial Gracie bumps into Fred Wright, the Titanic’s squash pro. They joke about having to cancel Gracie’s 7:30 appointment because the squash court is under water.

12:34 a.m.: The Frankfort calls again and says she is 150 miles away. Phillips asks, "Are you coming to our assistance"? The Frankfort responds "What is the matter with you"? Phillips responds ""Tell your captain to come to our help. We are on the ice."

12:40 a.m.: 25,000 tons of water have been taken on.
12:45 a.m.: Quartermaster Rowe fires off the first distress rocket. It soars 800’ into the
air and burst in a brilliant display of 12 stars followed by a load noise.(12:25)???

Engineer Shepherd breaks his leg.

The first lifeboat to leave the ship, Starboard boat #7, is lowered with 28 people in it. Its maximum capacity was 65.

Electrician Alfred White brews some coffee.

The Titanic calls the Olympic SOS (This is the first time in history that a SOS was sent)

Seaman John Poingdestre leaves the boat deck to retrieve some boots from below decks. He found some in the forecastle on the E deck. As he was starting up, the wooden wall between his quarters and third class space to the starboard collapsed. He fought his way out through waist deep water.

12:50 a.m.: The Titanic calls C.Q.D and says, "I require immediate assistance. Position 41.46N. 50.14W." The Celtic received this message.
12:55/?12:45 a.m.: Boat # 6, the first boat lowered from the port side, is lowered with 28 people in it even though it can carry 65.

Boat #5, (1:20??) is the second boat lowered from the starboard side. It was full to capacity (56 People???) and as it was lowered, four men jumped into the lifeboat. One man, weighing 250 pounds fell on top of a woman passenger knocking her out and dislocating two of her ribs.

Major Peuchen proves to be a yachtsman, when he goes down the falls into a lifeboat.

Fifth officer Lowe yells at the head of White Star Lines, Bruce Ismay.

The Californian has seen 5 rockets fired off by the ship in the distance.

1:00 a.m.: Boat #3 is lowered.

Greaser Thomas Ranger turns off 45 fans ventilating fans in the boiler rooms, because they used too much electricity.

1:02 a.m.: The Titanic calls the Asian and says, "Want immediate assistance."
*1:05/1:10 a.m.: Boat # 1 is lowered with twelve people in it.
1:10 a.m.: Mrs. Isodor Straus refuses to leave her husband.

The second boat from the starboard side, boat #8, is lowered.

The holes through which the anchor chains pass through is now covered with water opening 12 more square feet to the sea.

The Titanic talks to M.K.C (the Olympics official call number) "We are in collision with iceberg. Sinking head down. 41.46N. 50.14W. Come as soon as possible. Captain says get your boats ready. What is your position?"

Second officer Stone of the Californian whistles down a speaking room to the chart room below and tells Captain Lord about the rockets being fired off.

1:15 a.m.: The water reaches the Titanic’s name on the bow, and she has a list to the
port.??
1:20 a.m.: Starboard boat #9 is lowered.

Boat # 10 is lowered with 55 people in it.

The sea pours in on trimmer George Carvell in boiler room # 4.

Benjamin Guggenheim appears in his evening clothes prepared to go down like a gentleman.

The second convoy of third class passengers reaches the boat deck.

1:25 a.m.: There is now a noticeable list to starboard.??

Boat #12 is lowered with 43 people in it.

Boat #13 is lowered with 64 people in it.

Boat #11 is lowered with 60/70 people in it (1:30?????) including fifth officer Lowe who has to fire off three shots to ward off the crowd???.

Steward Ray remembers he persuaded a family to take the Titanic.

Olympic sends her position to the Titanic, "40.42N. 61.18W. Are you steering south to meet us?" The Titanic replies" We are putting the women off in boats."

The Frankfort calls again and asks for more details. They ask, "Are there any ships around you already"? Phillips ignored this signal. The Frankfort again calls but Phillips tells him "You fool! Stand by and keep out".

1:30 a.m.: Signs of panic begin to appear.

An officer opens the gate between first and third class allowing women and children to the decks above.

Eva Hart gets into boat #14 with her mother.

1:35 a.m.: Boat #14 is lowered with 60 people in it.

Boat #16 is lowered with 56 people in it.

First Officer Murdoch prevents a rush on boat #15. ?1:35/1:40?

Boat #15 is lowered with 70 people in it.

The Olympic asks what weather Titanic has. Titanic replies "Clear and calm".

The Baltic hears Titanic say "Engine room getting flooded".

1:37 a.m.: The Baltic tells Titanic "We are rushing to you."
1:40 a.m.: Most of the forward boats have left. Bruce Ismay leaves on collapsible "C".

The Olympic tells Titanic "Am lighting up all possible boilers as fast as can."

Cape Race says to Virginian: "Please tell your captain this! The Olympic is making all speed for Titanic, but his (Olympics) position is 40.32N. 61.18W. You are much nearer to Titanic. The Titanic is already putting off women and children into the boats. The Olympic is the only ship we have heard say. Going to the assistance
of the Titanic. Others must be a long way from Titanic.

Steward Johnson yells up to the boat deck for a knife to cut the falls on boat #2. Seaman McAuliffe drops one down calling "Remember me at Southampton and give it to me back".

The forward welldeck becomes awash adding hundreds of square feet open to the sea.

1:45 a.m.: The last signals from the Titanic heard by the Carpathia are "engine room full up to boilers…"

The seventh boat from the port side, boat #2, is lowered with twenty-five people in it.

The ship begins to list sharply to port.? Chief officer Wilde yells "Everyone on the starboard side to straighten her up. The ship slowly swung back on an even keel as passengers and crew trudged to the starboard side.

Lightoller throws open the cover to one of the lifeboats and discovers a group of men huddled on its floor. "Get out of here" he shouted. "Cowards. I’d like to see every one of you thrown overboard.

1:48 a.m.: The Asian hears Titanic call SOS. Asian answers Titanic but receives no answer.
1:55 a.m.: Boat #4, the last lifeboat to leave the ship was lowered with 40 people in it. It only needs to be lowered 15’ to the water instead of the usual 60’.

Stoker Fred Scott frees a trapped friend.

2:00 a.m.: Water is now only 10 feet below the promenade deck. At this time, Hartley chooses the bands final piece. "Nearer My God To Thee".??

The ship has taken on 39,000 tons of water.

Virginian hears Titanic calling very faintly, his power being greatly reduced.

2:05 a.m.: Edith Evans refuses a seat in collapsible D in order to save a woman with a husband and family.

Thomas Andrews sends stewardess Mary Sloan away on the last boat. Lightoller refuses a seat on the boat.

Collapsible "D" begins it’s downward descent.

Captain Smith enters the wireless shack. He tells them "Men, you have done your full duty and you can do no more. Abandon you cabin. Now it’s every man for himself." When he gets no response he says, "You look out for yourselves. I release you." A pause, "That is the way of it at this kind of time.

Samuel Hemmings jumps overboard.

2:10 a.m.: The senior wireless operator Jack Phillips almost has his lifevest stolen.

A Steward looks in the smoking room and sees Thomas Andrews alone in the smoking room staring at the painting above the mantle.

2:15 a.m.: The band begins playing autumn/Nearer My God to Thee??.

The bridge goes underwater.

Drinks in the smoking room are "on the house".

2:17 a.m.: The last radio call is sent out. Smith tells the crew "It is every man for himself. Captain Smith returns to the bridge to wait for the end, the constructor of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, is standing alone in the first class smoking room. Many passengers and crew members jump overboard into the ice cold water. Many of these
people die when the forward funnel falls. Collapsible "B" drifts away, it capsizes and is quickly covered with people from the water. Collapsible "A" also floats away from the starboard side. The Titanic’s bow plunges under while hundreds of passengers and crew are clinging to the rails on the stern. Virginian hears Titanic call "C.Q…" but unable to read him. The Titanic’s signals end very abruptly as power suddenly switches off.
2:18 a.m.: A huge roar is heard as every movable object crashes downward. The lights blink once then go out. Many are convinced the bow broke off at this point, which is probable. The ship achieves a completely perpendicular position and remains there.

Colonial Gracie remembers a trick he learned at the seashore.

Edith Evans remembers a fortuneteller telling her "beware of the water".

2:20 a.m.: The time has come. She settles back slightly then she slowly slides beneath the waves and begins a journey to the ocean floor, 13,000 feet below.
2:23 a.m.: Within three to five minutes of breaking loose from the stern, the bow has fallen two and a half miles striking the bottom at close to 40 miles an hour. The bow is buried 60 feet in the mud. Although the bow had a two-minute lead, the stern (which contained the engines and boilers) crashed into the ocean floor at 60-70 miles an hour, a few seconds after the bow.
3:30 a.m.: The Carpathia’s rockets are sighted by those in the lifeboats. They immediately start rowing towards it.
*3:40 a.m./1:40 a.m. New York time: White Star vice president Phillip S. Franklin is awakened in New York by a telephone call from a reporter who told him the Titanic had radioed for assistance and was sinking.
4:10 a.m.: Titanic’s #2 lifeboat is picked up.
4:45 a.m.: Boat #13 is picked up.
5:10 a.m.: Boat #5 is picked up.
5:30 a.m.: After being advised by the Frankfort of the Titanic’s loss, the Californian makes for the disaster site and arrives about three hours later.
6:00 a.m.: Boat #6 is picked up.

Boat #3 is picked up.

6:30 a.m.: Collapsible C is picked up.
8:00 a.m.: Boat #11 is picked up.
8:30 a.m.: The Carpathia picks up the last survivor, and makes a final search of the area.
8:50 a.m.: The Carpathia leaves the searching of survivors to other ships and she steams away to New York.

????Aviatrix Harriet Quimby becomes the first women to fly the English Channel. Coming the same day as news of the Titanic sinking, her accomplishment is forgotten. She is killed in an airplane crash one year later.

Wednesday, April 17, 1912
Mackay-Bennett is hired by White Star to return to the catastrophe area and search for bodies.

The Titanic was due to arrive in New York today.

Thursday, April 18, 1912
8:30 p.m.: The Carpathia is seen passing the Statue of Liberty.
9:00 p.m.: Carpathia arrives in New York where more than 10,000 people are waiting at pier 54, including many journalists.

Friday, April 19, 1912
10:30 a.m.: The U.S. Senate Inquiry led by Michigan Senator William Smith, opens at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. The inquiry recommends that the number of lifeboats be increased and 24-hour watch on the radios.

Saturday, April 20, 1912
Harland and Wolff close the shipyards temporarily. Many people, especially workers on the Titanic, are shocked.

Titanic passenger and survivor Marion Wright is married as planned.

The nameplates on the 13 Titanic lifeboats are removed.

The SS Lapland leaves for England carrying all of the surviving crew members except for those subpoenaed at the U.S. inquiry.

The German liner Breman passes within a few miles of where the Titanic went down. Looking over the railing a passenger distinctly sees "a number of bodies so clearly that we could make out what they were wearing, and whether they were men or women. We saw one woman in her nightdress with a baby clasped closely to her breast…. There was another woman, fully dressed with her arms around the body of a shaggy dog that looked
like a St. Bernard. The bodies of three men, all in a group, all clinging to one steamer chair floated close by, and just beyond them were a dozen bodies of men, all in life preservers clinging together as though in the last desperate struggle for life…. We could see the white life preservers of many more dotting the sea…. The scene moved everyone on board to the point of tears."

Sunday, April 21, 1912
The Mackay-Bennett recovers 306 bodies, including that of J.J Astor. Unclaimed bodies were buried at sea, in Halifax, or in Nova Scotia cemeteries.

*Monday/Thursday, April 22/25, 1912
One week after the disaster, White Star sends out another ship, Minia, to the catastrophe area.

Wednesday, April 24, 1912
The Titanic’s sister ship, Olympic is hit with a coal strike. The "black gang" (the stokers) refuse to work on a ship that does not have enough lifeboats. The Olympic was scheduled to leave that day, but it had to remain in Southampton.

Sunday April 28, 1912
An open-air service is held on Marlands (England).

Monday April 29, 1912
A special performance is given at the Metropolitan Opera to benefit the families of the victims of the Titanic disaster.

Tuesday April 30, 1912
The Lapland arrives in Plymouth. The crew is detained as depositions are taken. 80 stewards and stewardesses returned by train to Southampton.

Friday, May 3, 1912
The British inquiry begins in London. 96 witnesses are questioned

Monday, May 6, 1912
The ship Montmagny is sent out to look for bodies. It returns with four bodies.

The Cedric arrives in Liverpool carrying a few crew members including Fredrick Fleet, Lee, and Hitchens.

Saturday, May 11, 1912
The Cedric arrives in Liverpool with officers Lightoller, Pitman, Lowe, and Boxhall. Also aboard is Ismay, and father/husband less families including the Dean family.

Wednesday, May 15, 1912
The ship Algerina is sent out to look for bodies, but returns with only one body. A total of 328 bodies have been found.

Thursday, May 16, 1912
Marcelle Navratil is reunited with her two children

Saturday, May 18, 1912
The Baltic arrives in Liverpool with Harold Bride.

June 4, 1912
Ismay testifies at the British inquiry

June, 1912
Titanic’s last body is found. It is the badly decomposed remains of first-class Saloon steward W.F. Cheverton. He is buried at sea.

August, 1912
Madeleine Astor gives birth to a son. She names him for her husband lost in the sinking.

Captain Stanley Lord resigns his position with the Leyland Line as a result of the Mersey commission findings.

January, 1913
Captain Stanley Lord is hired by the Nitrate Producers Steamship Co. to command one of their vessels.

April 19, 1913
Sheriff Councilor W. Bagshaw unveils a Titanic musicians memorial. This was later destroyed during the Second World War.

April, 1913
The International Icepatrol is founded for watching the ship routes in the Northern Atlantic. The Icepatrol is lead by the U.S. Coast Guard.

June, 1913
Bruce Ismay loses his position as chairmen of White Star Line, by the IMM.

July 16, 1913
The Olympic becomes the first ship to be dry docked at the Trafalgar Dry Dock in Southampton.

1913
A Denver Architect named Charles Smith comes up with an innovative plan to raise the Titanic. His plan called for fitting a submarine with electromagnets that would be attracted to the ships hull. He would then attach cables to the magnets and on the surface, a barge would winch the Titanic up. This plan would have required 162 men and $1.5 million dollars. The plan was quickly dropped.

Lawrence Beesley writes about his experiences on the Titanic.

February, 1914
The Titanic’s sister ship, Britannic is launched.

April 22, 1914
Spectators watch as a Titanic engineer’s memorial is unveiled.

August, 1914
World War 1 begins.

1914
A statue of Captain Smith is unveiled by his daughter in his hometown of Lichfield, England.

May 1, 1915
The Lusitania leaves New York.

May 7, 1915
The Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine, killing 1,200 people (124 of which were Americans). This disaster is most comparable to the Titanic disaster even though this occurred during war.

September, 1915
The Olympic is commissioned as a naval transport. She was repainted in wartime colors. She survived 4 submarine attacks including the one she ram and sank. She transported 119,000 civilians and troops. It was during this time she earned the title "Old ‘n’ Reliable".

July 27, 1915
The Titanic Crew Memorial is unveiled.

December 12, 1915
The Britannic is commissioned as a hospital ship, and is ready for war service.

1916
The Britannic, in service as a hospital ship during World War one, strikes a German mine and sinks in the Aegean Sea in an hour.

1917
The Californian is torpedoed by a German submarine in World War one and sinks.

July 17, 1918
The Carpathia is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War one and sinks 70 miles from Bishops Rock.

November 11, 1918
11:00 a.m.: World War 1 ends.

1919
Madaline Astor marries William Dick, an elderly stockholder.

March 9, 1921
Harold Brides first daughter Lucy is born.

September 7, 1927
Harold Brides second child John is born.

April 12, 1928
Samuel Hemmings dies at 59.

September 23, 1929
Harold Brides third (and final) child Jeanette is born.

November 18, 1929
The Grand Banks earthquake occurred. It was said to have started an underwater mudslide that covered the Titanic.

1930
The film "Atlantic" is released. It is based on the Titanic disaster.

March, 1934
Violet Jessop writes her memoir about her ship board service on various ships including the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic.

May 15, 1934
In heavy fog, the Olympic rams the Nantucket lightship. 7 of 11 crew members were lost.

1934
The Great Depression forces a merge with White Star and Cunard Lines.

1935
After 24 years of faithful service, the Olympic is sold and scrapped. She had had four major repairs, been across the Atlantic almost 500 times (almost 1,5 million nautical miles), and earned the nickname "Old and reliable".

1936
The Titanic’s lookout Fredrick Fleet continued sailing since the Titanic disaster until now when the depression closed down much of the worlds shipping.

1937
Bruce Ismay dies, after living his years after the disaster in seclusion.

November 4, 1940
Arthur Henry Rostron of the Carpathia dies at the age of 71.

*1937/1940
Madeline Astor dies (Commits suicide?) in Palm Beach at the age of 47. She had been
married to an Italian prizefighter.

1950
Violet Jessop retires at the age of 63. She took more than 200 voyages and survived two shipwrecks.

1952
The Titanic’s second officer Charles Lightoller dies at the age of 78.

1953
20th Century Fox releases "Titanic" (originally entitled "Nearer My God To Thee") starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb. The ship model used for the filming is now on display at the Marine Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. A British salvaging firm, Risdon Beasley Ltd., begins a quiet hunt for the Titanic. They send a small ship to 43 degrees 65’N, 52 degrees 04’W and deployed high explosives to generate an echo image of the ocean floor. They failed to locate the ship.

1955
Walter Lord publishes "A Night to Remember". The classic book exposed new generations to the Titanic story.

Fredrick Fleet retires and sells newspaper on street corners in Southampton.

April 29, 1956
Harold Bride dies in a hospital in Glasgow of Bronchial Carcinoma.

1956
Kraft Television Theater makes a TV production of Walter Lords book "A Night To Remember". It was rerun only five weeks after its original broadcast.

1958
"A Night to Remember" becomes a British film starring Kenneth Moore, Honor Blackman, and David McCallum as telegraph operator Harold Bride.

1960
The musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens on Broadway.

1962
Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian dies.

1963
Edward S. Kamuda founds the Titanic Historical Society.

1964
The movie version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown is released starring Debbie Reynolds as the most famous Titanic character.

January 10, 1965
Fredrick Fleet, the lookout from the Titanic, and the first person to see the iceberg, hangs himself and dies in Southampton at 76.

1965
Irwin Allen’s sci-fi program "Time Tunnel" debuts on TV with the episode "Rendezvous With Yesterday" which has scientists James Darren and Robert Colbert landing on the
Titanic.

1966
A young English hosiery worker named Douglas Wolley proposed to surround the hull of the Titanic with hundreds of water filled plastic containers. He then planned to release gasses that would lift the huge ship to the surface. He was unable to raise enough money.

1967
Survivor Lawrence Beesley dies at the age of 89.

1970
Wooley founds the Titanic Salvaging Co. He asserted he had claim to the wreck and generated great publicity by proclaiming is intention to find, raise, and tow the Titanic into Liverpool where he would restore her as a floating museum. He failed to pull off his plan.

May, 1971
Violet Jessop dies of congestive heart failure.

1972
The Titanic Crew Memorial is moved to Holyrood Church, Southampton. It originally stood in the common.

1973
Harold Brides wife dies at the age of 83 in Prestwick, Scotland.

The Great Gantry is demolished for scrap.

1979
SOS Titanic is released, Starring David Janssen, and Cloris Leachmen.

1980
Clive Cusslers "Raise the Titanic" becomes a film starring Jason Robards, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness.

July, 1980
The American explorer Jack Grimm starts an expedition to hopefully find the Titanic, but has to call off the search since the weather was getting worse.

June, 1981
Jack Grimm tries again but has to call off the search again.

July 1983
For the third time Jack Grimm tries to find the Titanic. And again the weather was rough.

September 1, 1985
1:05 a.m.: French-American expedition lead by Dr. Robert Ballard, discover the Titanic at a depth of 13,123.
July 14, 1986

11:00 a.m.: Ralph Hollis, Dudley Foster, and Dr. Ballard return to the Titanic, and they use a submarine to dive down to the wreck and take pictures.

Numerous expeditions are planned to retrieve artifacts from the site.

1987
The Congress of the United States takes steps towards making the Titanic an international memorial site.

A French expedition retrieves 900 objects from the ocean floor.

R.M.S Titanic Inc. is formed by an international group of businessmen anxious to see the Titanic’s remains preserved.

A shipwreck in the Philippines causes the death of over 4,000 people. It is the first wreck to pass the Titanics record as the worst peacetime Maritime disaster.

March 7, 1990
Titanic survivors unveil a replica of the original Titanic Musicians Memorial.

1990
Renowned science-fiction author, Arthur C. Clark, publishes a novel about raising the Titanic-Ghost of Grand Banks.

1991
A Canadian-Soviet dive to the wreck returns with IMAX film of the wreck.

1994
The wreck of the Titanic- a major exhibition opens at the National Maritime Museum, London. It displays artifacts recovered by R.M.S Titanic Inc. between 1987 and 1993.

1995
P.P. Shirsov Institute and James Cameron conduct under water filming for a fictional
motion picture.

August, 1996

An expedition tries to take up an 11-ton piece hull. When it was 1,968ft from the surface, the cables broke and it sank.

1996
Eva Hart, the last survivor with articulate memories of the sinking, dies at 91.

Production begins on 20th Century Fox’s movie about the disaster. "Titanic" directed be James Cameron and starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

December 18, 1997
After 200 million dollars, and several delays, "Titanic" opens in theaters. After being the top movie for 15 weeks straight, it earned more money that any other movie of all time.

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