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Titanic Timeline:
1867
The unprofitable White Star Line is purchased by Thomas Henry Ismay and Sir Edward Harland.
1891
Thomas Ismay's eldest son, J. Bruce Ismay is made a partner of White Star and one year later Thomas retires.
1902
White Star Lines is taken over by International Mercantile Marine Company created by J. Pierpoint Morgan. The purchase price is £10,000,000. J. Bruce Ismay stays on to eventually become the managing director of White Star.
1907
J. Bruce Ismay and Lord James Pirrie, a partner in the firm of Harland and Wolff meet. Plans are made to build two luxury ships, the Olympic and the Titanic, with a third, the Gigantic (renamed Britannic), to be built later.
1908-1909
Construction of the Olympic and Titanic begins in Belfast, Ireland, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards.
1910
October 20:
The Olympic is successfully launched.
1911
May 31:
The hull of the Titanic is successfully launched. 10 months of fitting out follow.
June:
The Olympic leaves on her maiden voyage.
September 20:
The Olympic, outbound from Southampton, has a major collision with H.M.S. Hawke, a British Royal Navy cruiser. Repairs made back at Harland and Wolff delay the fitting out of the Titanic one month.
1912
January:
Sixteen wooden lifeboats, along with four collapsible canvas-sided boats, are fitted on board the Titanic.
March 31:
The outfitting of the Titanic is complete.
April 10: Wednesday - Sailing day
9:30 to 11:30 am:
Passengers arrive in Southampton and board ship.
Noon:
The Titanic casts off and begins her maiden voyage. She has a near miss with the steamer New York caused by the suction of Titanic's enourmous displacement.
6:30 pm:
The Titanic rides anchor in Cherbourg, France.
8:10pm:
The Titanic leaves for Queenstown, Ireland.
April 11: Thursday
1:30pm:
Anchored off of Roche's Point, Queenstown, Ireland. Francis Browne, a Jesuit seminarian, disembarks and takes the last known photograph of the Titanic for the next 73 years. The Titanic leaves Queenstown for New York.
April 12 and 13: Friday and Saturday
The Titanic sails through calm, clear weather.
April 14: Sunday
Seven ice warnings are received during the day. Reports come in from the Caronia, Baltic, Amerika, Californian and Mesaba.
10:50pm:
The Californian sends a wireless message directly to the Titanic telling them that they were stopped and surrounded by ice.
11:39pm:
The lookouts, Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee, see an iceberg dead ahead. First Officer William Murdoch orders the engines reversed and the wheel hard to starboard. The Titanic slowly turns to port but it is too late. The iceberg strikes the Titanic on the starboard side of her bow. Murdoch activates the ship's watertight doors.
11:50pm:
Captain Smith asks designer Thomas Andrews and the ship's carpenter to conduct a visual inspection of the damage. Water has poured in and risen 14 feet in the front part of the ship.
April 15: Monday
12:00am:
Captain Smith is told that the ship can only stay afloat for a couple of hours. He orders radio operators Harold Bride and Jack Phillips to send "CQD", the distress call.
12:05am:
Orders are given to uncover the lifeboats and to get the passengers and crew ready on deck. But there is only enough room in the lifeboats for about half of the estimated 2,228 people on board.
12:25am:
The order is given to start loading the lifeboats with women and children first. The Carpathia, southeast of the Titanic by about 58 miles, picks up the distress call and immediately heads, full speed, to the rescue.
12:45am:
The first of the lifeboats is safely lowered away. It can carry 65 people but pulls away from the Titanic carrying only 28! The first distress rocket is fired. Eight rockets will be fired throughout the night.
1:15am:
Water begins to reach the Titanic's name on the bow. The tilt of the deck grows increasingly steeper. Lifeboats now begin to leave more fully loaded.
1:40am:
Most of the forward lifeboats have been lowered. Passengers now move towards the stern of the ship.
2:05am:
The last lifeboat leaves. There are now over 1,500 people left on board the sinking ship. The tilt of the Titanic's decks grows steeper by the minute.
2:17am:
The last radio call for help is sent out. Captain Smith tells his crew "It's every man for himself!"The Titanic's bow plunges under. Many passengers jump over board. The forward funnel collapses, crushing a number of people.
2:18am:
Items in the ship are heard crashing through walls and falling toward the sinking bow. The ship's lights blink once and then go out. Several survivors see the ship break in two. The bow section sinks.
2:20am:
The Titanic's broken off stern section settles back into the water, becoming level for a few moments. Slowly it fills with water and again it tilts its end high into the air, before sinking into the sea. Those struggling in the icy water slowly freeze to death.
3:30am:
The rescue ship, Carpathia's rockets are sighted by the survivors in the lifeboats.
4:10am:
The first lifeboat is picked up by Carpathia.
8:50am:
The Carpathia leaves the area bound for New York, carrying 705 survivors.
April 18:
9:00pm:
The Carpathia reaches New York.
April 19 to May 25:
An inquiry into the Titanic disaster is conducted by the United States Senate.
April 22 to May 15:
Several ships are sent to the disaster site to search for bodies. A total of 328 bodies were found floating around the area.
May 2 to July 3:
The British Inquiry is conducted.
1913
April:
As a result of the Titanic disaster, the International Ice Patrol is created to guard the North Atlantic sea lanes.
June:
In the midst of public ridicule and rumors, J. Bruce Ismay loses his position as chairman of White Star Lines by the IMM board of directors.
1914
February:
The Titanic's second sister ship, the Britannic, is launched. She is sunk two years later during the First World War.
1932
Molly Brown dies in New York City at age 65.
1935
After 24 years of safe and reliable service, the Titanic's sister, the Olympic is retired and scraped.
1937
A reclusive J. Bruce Ismay dies at the age of 74.
1955
Walter Lord writes a best seller, A Night To Remember. Three years later a movie of the same title, based on the novel, is made.
1964
The film version of the Meredith Wilson's musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown is released starring Debbie Reynolds as the most famous Titanic hero.
1980
Clive Cussler's "Raise The Titanic" is made into a movie.
July:
U.S. entrepreneur and explorer Jack Grimm funds a scientific expedition which set out to locate the wreck of the Titanic. Dogged by bad weather and equipment malfunctions, the expedition fails to find the Titanic.
1981
June:
Jack Grimm unsuccessfully attempts to locate the Titanic on his second expedition.
1983
July:
The third and final expedition funded by Jack Grimm fails to find the Titanic.
1985
September 1:
A joint French - American scientific expedition, IFREMER/Woods Hole, led by Dr. Robert Ballard discovers the wreck of the Titanic at a depth of 12,500 feet.
1986
Dr. Ballard returns to the Titanic and conducts extensive photographic exploration of the wreck. Towed submersible used to photograph much of the exterior. Manned dives with robot sub photograph significant sections of interior and exterior.
1987
RMS Titanic Inc. is formed by an international group of businessmen anxious to see the Titanic's remains preserved. In cooperation with the French National Institute for Research and Exploration of the Sea (IFREMER), Titanic Inc. conducts research and recovery expeditions to the wreck site in 1987, 1993, 1994 and 1996. Some 5,000 artifacts have been recovered and are being preserved.
1991
IMAX Corporation/P. P. Shirsov Institute films the Titanic in wide screen IMAX format. Biological studies and metallurgical sampling of the hull plating are performed.
1994
The Wreck of the Titanic - a major exhibition - opens at the National Maritime Museum, London, displaying artifacts recovered by Titanic Inc. between 1987 and 1993.
1995
P. P. Shirsov Institute & James Cameron conduct underwater filming for a fictional motion picture slated for release in late 1997.
1996
August 26:
IFREMER/RMS Titanic Inc. perform site mapping, artifact recovery, and photographic exploration of the interior and exterior. The expedition tries, but fails, to bring up an 11-ton piece of the hull.
1997
December 18:
The movie "Titanic", written and directed by James Cameron, begins its release around the world. At over $200 million, "Titanic" is the most expensive motion picture ever made.
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