April 15, 1912: 12:50 a.m. EST –
A junior wireless operator at Cape Race, Newfoundland, received a report from the Virginian that they were trying to reach the Titanic ocean liner, but had lost communication. Titanic’s last signals at 12:27 a.m. were “blurred and ended abruptly.“
The ‘unsinkable‘ ship Titanic sank after being torn by iceberg, with a loss of 1495 passengers on this date.
From the moment it struck the iceberg, the Titanic remained afloat for approximately 160 minute – the first lifeboat was not deployed from the ship for almost 60 minutes after the initial collision.
There were 212 staff members among the 711 survivors. Nearly all of the first-class women passengers survived, except for Ida Straus, Bessie Waldo Allison and Loraine Allison, Edith Corse Evans, and Elizabeth Ann Isham.
Roger Bricoux was the Titanic’s cello player and just 21 years old when he perished during the ship’s sinking. But Bricoux wasn’t officially declared dead until 2000 (through the efforts of French Association of the Titanic,) though all of the musicians died on April 15, 1912. The French army even called him a deserter when he failed to show up to serve in World War I.
In the race to publish a headline about the disaster, numerous newspapers gave families and loved ones false hope about the sinking of the Titanic. The World reported no fatalities, the Daily Mail declared “no lives lost,” and the Belfast Telegraph claimed “no danger of loss of life.” American newspapers were able to take advantage of the time difference, and their headlines were more accurate.
And so it goes
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