Where did Titanic set sail, where did it go and where did it die?

Titanic set sail from Southampton Harbour and finally arrived in new york. After sailing, she was killed in iceberg lane.

Across the Atlantic—

Titanic is scheduled to arrive at Pier 59 in new york on the morning of April 17. After Titanic left Queenstown on April 1 1, it is expected to travel about 102 km along the Irish coast and pass through Lighthouse Island. From there, take the Great Circle route and cross the North Atlantic for about 3,000 kilometers, then reach the sea area named "Cape" in the southeast of Newfoundland, and then change the course there.

Next, sail along the compass bearing line, about 250 kilometers later is the fatal contact point between Titanic and iceberg. 1 983km later, the journey reached the last stop, Ambrose Lighthouse, which is the final destination of Titanic, new york Harbor.

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The process of death-

At 23: 40 on April 14, the lookout Vanderrick Flat found an iceberg in front of the Titanic and warned the bridge. William Murdoch, then the deputy commander on duty, gave the order that the right rudder was full and the engine was reversed at full speed, trying to "swing left and right"; But it's too late. The starboard side of the Titanic hit an iceberg, forming a series of cracks below the waterline. Instead of being cut by icebergs, the hull was buckled and sank, and the joints of steel plates were bent into sections to let seawater in.

The first five watertight compartments were damaged and flooded, and the captain, chief designer and others soon realized that Titanic was doomed to sink, because her floating force could not resist the flooding of the five watertight compartments. A few minutes after the collision, the bow began to sink slowly. With the gradual increase of the inclination angle, the seawater in the ship flooded the cabin backwards like an ice box.

In this emergency, the passengers of Titanic were not prepared. According to the accepted practice at that time, lifeboats were only used to connect passengers and nearby ships when the ship would not sink immediately. The 20 lifeboats carried by Titanic can only carry about half of the people. If fully loaded, only about one-third of people can board the lifeboat.

The crew didn't get enough evacuation training. They don't know that lifeboats can float safely even if they are fully loaded, so many lifeboats are launched only half full. Third-class passengers were stranded on the lower deck most of the time by the crew, so they had to find their own way to cross the obstacles, causing many people to be trapped, and most of the lower deck was filled with seawater. The co-pilot generally follows the principle of giving priority to women and children when directing boarding, and most male passengers and crew members stay on board.

At 2 o'clock 15, two hours and 35 minutes after hitting the iceberg, the inclination angle of the Titanic in the water began to increase rapidly, because a large amount of seawater invaded the underwater part of the bow from the deck hatch. Because the stern rises from the water, revealing the propeller and the bottom of the second half; The bow sinks and the stern rises, causing the keel to bear two opposite forces. After reaching the stress peak, the hull began to break between the No.2 and No.3 chimneys.

When the bow fell, the keel did not break immediately, so the stern was pulled to an almost vertical angle, and finally hundreds of people were still holding the railing on the stern deck. At 2: 20, the Titanic sank completely. Although the survivor of 14 testified that the hull broke in two at sea, it is generally believed that she did not break, but completely sank to the bottom of the sea for many years.

However, when the sunken ship was found in 1985, it was confirmed that the Titanic was broken in two. Except for the people on the lifeboat, all the passengers and crew are immersed in the sea water of MINUS 2℃, and almost all people who fall into the sea will die, with only 2 to 30 minutes to survive. Although the lifeboats scattered around can accommodate nearly 500 people, only 13 people were rescued from the water by lifeboats.

107 km away, the Kabofia ventured ahead at full speed and arrived at the scene of the accident about one and a half hours after sinking. About 7 10 people survived the disaster and boarded Kabofia for emergency care. 1, 5 14 people were killed in the accident. The crew of the "Ka Pauphillat" recalled the scene after the sun rose: "At first glance, it was an endless iceberg, as if there were countless pyramids perched on the sea."

Arthur Luostrom, the captain of the Ka Pauphillat, looked around the scene and saw 20 60-meter-high icebergs, many small icebergs and ice floes, and fragments of the Titanic. The passengers of the "Ka Pauphillat" also said that their ship seemed to be in the middle of a huge white plain, and the icebergs in the distance were scattered like hills; This area is now called Iceberg Lane.

Kabofia originally planned to send survivors to Halifax port, because the railway there is developed and it is also the nearest big seaport to the shipwreck site. However, because there is still a lot of sea ice in the northwest, we changed to new york Port in the southwest, which is the original destination of Titanic.

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