Pv. Shortly after 12.00am on April 15th, 1912, the officers on the RMS Titanic faced a horrifying truth. Their ship was going to founder. The White Star Line's adherence to outdated lifeboat regulations decreed that half of the people on the ship were going to perish. Now, their only source of salvation lay in rescue by a nearby ship. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph installed on the ship was one of the most powerful of the day, capable of transmitting messages over a range of hundreds of miles. It seemed providential to use it to summon help. Now, with the location of the doomed ship calculated, Captain Smith approached the Marconi cabin where operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride were waiting, bewildered.
Most of the frantic messages are well-known, thanks to Lord Mersey's report, which has been transcribed here . The Titanic's local clocks had been adjusted the previous midnight so that their noontime position corresponded with their local, calculated longitude. The Last Titanic Mystery - MISC. Related. MISC. Related Information Google Earth Titanic: FYI: In Hyde's letter to grandmother in 1940 he states: "I looked back just in time to see the ship roll over on its side and sink. " As I understood it, was not until James Cameron's "FINAL WORD" telecast this year that it was confirmed that the ship did roll to port and so is substantiated by Hyde's view and statement way back when.... see link below: A Titanic Time-line Web Site map/map.html Did an 1898 novella anticipate the Titanic disaster?
The plot of Morgan Robertson's Futility bears an uncanny resemblance to the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, published 14 years before the FATEFUL voyage. The book tells the story of the Titan: "The largest ship ever built, billed as 'unsinkable' by its British owners and the press, strikes an iceberg one April and goes down. Sound familiar? And it's available for free on Goggle Books. APNewsBreak: Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time. SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile (5-by-8-kilometer) Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend.
Marks on the muddy ocean bottom suggest, for instance, that the stern rotated like a helicopter blade as the ship sank, rather than plunging straight down, researchers told The Associated Press this week. An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people. "With the sonar map, it's like suddenly the entire room lit up and you can go from room to room with a magnifying glass and document it," he said. Titanic International Society.