History of the titanic iceberg
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Iceberg that sank the Titanic
Iceberg that was struck bygd Titanic on April 14,
The unnamed iceberg that sank the Titanic collided with the ship on the night of 14–15 April in the North Atlantic. Of the approximate 2, people on board, over 1, did not survive. After the disaster, there was interest in the iceberg itself to explain the circumstances of the collision and the resulting damage to the supposedly unsinkable ship. As a result of the Titanic disaster, an International Ice Patrol was founded whose uppdrag was to reduce the dangers of ice to shipping.
The most important sources for the iceberg are reports from surviving crew of the Titanic and passengers of the Titanic. There is also historical information on the weather and currents in the North Atlantic that may help to shed light on the disaster. Ships took photographs of icebergs nära the fläck where Titanic's lifeboats were found. The iceberg fryst vatten purportedly visible in one of these photographs.
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Sinking of the Titanic
maritime disaster
For other uses, see Sinking of the Titanic (disambiguation).
RMSTitanic sank on 15 April in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with an estimated 2, people on board when she struck an iceberg at (ship's time)[a] on 14 April. She sank two hours and forty minutes later at ship's time ( GMT) on 15 April, resulting in the deaths of more than 1, people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
Titanic received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling at a speed of roughly 22 knots (41&#;km/h) when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled the steel plates covering her starboard side and opened six of her sixteen compartments to the sea. Titanic had been designed to stay afloat with u
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The Iceberg that Sank Titanic
Titanic struck a North Atlantic iceberg at PM in the evening of 14 April at a speed of knots ( MPH). The berg scraped along the starboard or right side of the hull below the waterline, slicing open the hull between five of the adjacent watertight compartments. If only one or two of the compartments had been opened, Titanic might have stayed afloat, but when so many were sliced open, the watertight integrity of the entire forward section of the hull was fatally breached. Titanic slipped below the waves at AM on 15 April. The Cunard Liner RMS Carpathia arrived at the scene around two hours after Titanic sank, finding only a few lifeboats and no survivors in the 28F degree water. Bernice Palmer took this picture of the iceberg identified as the one which sank Titanic, almost certainly identified by the survivors who climbed aboard Carpathia. The large iceberg is surrounded by smaller ice floes, indicating how far north