April 15, 1912 – 12:50 a.m. EST
A junior wireless operator at Cape Race, Newfoundland, received a message from the Virginian stating that they were attempting to reach the Titanic but had lost communication. Titanic’s final signals, sent at 12:27 a.m., were “blurred and ended abruptly.“
The ‘unsinkable‘ ship Titanic sank after being torn by iceberg, with a loss of 1493 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.
The last remaining survivor of the disaster, Millvina Dean, died on May 31, 2009, aged 97. She was two months old at the time.
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.
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