John's Titanic Timeline 2008

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Thomas Henry Ismay
The year 1867
The story of the Titanic begins in 1867, at the end of the year the 31 year old Thomas Henry Ismay purchased for the sum of £1,000 the name, house flag and goodwill of the White Star Line.

The Year 1869
Ismay forms the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company in order to establish the White Star Line as a high-class steamship service in the Atlantic passenger trade.

William Thomas Stead
22nd March 1886
Publication of a story by William Thomas Stead describing a ships collision at sea with a large loss of life attributed to too few lifeboats. Stead concludes that "this is exactly what might take place and will take place if liners are sent to sea short of lifeboats"

December 1892
Publication of an article by William Thomas Stead, describing a fictional voyage from England to America aboard a White Star Line ship called Majestic I . The Majestic rescues survivors of a vessel which sank after striking an iceberg. The ship's Captain was Edward John Smith

April 1912

William Thomas Stead is lost in the wreck of the White Star Line's Titanic after striking an iceberg. The ships Captain again was Captain Edward Smith.

Lord Pirrie and Captain E.J. Smith

11th September 1907
Early in 1907, during dinner at Downshire, Lord Pirrie's Belgrave Square mansion in London, Ismay discussed the construction of two huge ships followed by a third. This was to compete with their rivals on the North Atlantic. As we know the orders for these ships were given to the Belfast shipbuilders Harland & Wolff , These new ships were to compete directly with Cunard's Lusitania and . Mauretania A third sister it was announced was to follow. These ships were to bear the names: Olympic ....... Titanic ....and..... Britannic

Titanic's Keel is laid
31st March 1909
Keel laid on Number 3 slipway at Harland & Wolff Queens Island yard Belfast Titanic's yard number was 401, this new vessels hull number was designated 390904....???? Board of trade No. 131428


31st May 1911
Titanic is launched.
The event begining at 12:15pm, and is completed in just over two minutes. In keeping with White Star Line tradition, there is no formal christening ceremony. During the launch a yard worker is killed by a falling hull support.

13th June 1911
A shipyard Riveter is killed in a fall from Titanic's hull

Titanic's Sea Trials
2nd April 1912
Trials are conducted about 40 Miles down the Irish Sea. On returning to Belfast, the Titanic is certified by the British Board of Trade, and is turned over by her builders to the new owners, the White Star Line. She departs from Belfast a few minutes past 8:00pm for Southampton.

3rd April 1912
517 miles logged, Belfast to Southampton. During this passage Titanic reaches a speed of 23 & 1/4 knots.
The highest speed she will ever attain.

Time Line Information
Date: Day of voyage. Miles Logged Averaged Speed

12th April.... Day 1.....................464.........................19.3 knots
13th April.....Day 2.................... 519.........................21.6 knots
14th April.....Day 3.....................546.........................22.8 knots
15th April.....Day 4.....................N/A.........................22.25 Knots

The following I would like to thank Mark Chirnside for his figures & Comments submitted here:

I Believe these figures above were taken from David G Brown's book which calculated the average speeds without taking into account the clock changes. As a result all of these speeds are wrong. He also, wrongly, uses the initial run of 464 miles rather than the correct 484.

The correct runs are 484, 519, 546 and about 260 miles; the speeds about 20.5, about 21, about 22.1 and about 22.3 knots.
Bold Type post above supplied by Mark Chirnside

Titanic at Pier 44
4th April 1912
Shortly after midnight, Titanic moors at Pier 44 at White Star Dock in Southampton

10th April 1910

Titanic's Senior Officers
6.am
Crew commence to come onboard Titanic.

7::30am
Captain Edward J. Smith Comes onboard for this Titanic's maiden voyage. He also announces his retirement and that this would be his final voyage.

8.am
The Ship's flag the Blue Ensign is hoisted at the stern, and the Crew begin to muster.


9:30.am Embarkation
Passengers begin to embark

Noon
The Following Passenger count is supplied courtesy of Lester Mitcham to whom I am grateful for all his help.

Moments after noon, the Titanic slips her moorings and leaves the pier. A near collision with the American Line vessel City of New York caused by suction from Titanic's passing, is narrowly avoided by the quick thinking of Captain Gale of the tug Vulcan This delaysTitanic's departure from Southampton by almost an hour.

When Titanic departs Southampton she has (Approximate number of passengers on board.)
First Class : 199 [including 15 who will disembarked at Cherbourg and 7 who will disembark at Queenstown]
Second Class : 260 [including 9 (8 plus Mullen ticket No 404 - see the WSL Contract Ticket List) who will disembark at Cherbourg]
Third Class : 494
Total Passengers : 953
Officers And Crew : 892
Total Passengers and Crew : 1,845

The exact number of First and Second Class passengers who boarded at Southampton and at Cherbourg is open to some debate as sources differ with regard to certain passengers. For example the Thayers are generally listed as boarding at Cherbourg, but according to their own statements boarded at Southampton. - So 199 and 260 may need to be adjusted up or down with the Cherbourg boarding numbers.

6.35pm
Titanic arrives at Cherbourg, Anchors off the Rade, logged 88 miles. Titanic disembarks 24 passengers. She takes onboard 144 First class, 26 Second class and 102 Third class passengers. - [Passenger Alfred Nourney booked to sail Second class does not like his accommodation and upgrades to First class. - He is counted as "boarding" First class].

8.10pm
Titanic departs Cherbourg for the Southern Irish port of Queenstown

11th April 1912

11.30.am
Titanic arrives at Queenstown and anchors off Roche's point, logs 315 miles. Titanic disembarks 7 First class passengers. She takes onboard 123 passengers. One crewman deserts at Queenstown a fireman called John Coffey.

1.30pm
Titanic departs Queenstown and heads out into the Atlantic for New York. Onboard are 324 First Class, 284 Second Class and 709 Third Class passengers, plus 891 crew giving a grand total of 2,208.

Bold type here as supplied by Lester Mitcham

A fire that began in coal bunker No 6 when coal was taken onboard at Belfast has smouldered ever since despite attempts to extinguish it, and continues to burn as the liner sails.

12th April 1912
484 miles logged 12 noon Thursday 11th April to 12 noon Friday 12th April

11.00am
Wireless message from Eastbound Empress of Britain , Reports Ice at 45.o 28' north / 49.o 36 west

Now by way of interest I will insert logged Titanic Wireless transmissions and replies:



When the sinking condition of the ship was realised, Captain Smith ordered wireless messages to be sent out to all steamers within reach.

At 12:15am the first distress signal C.Q.D was transmitted by TITANIC.
The plight of the ship and all those on board is vividly documented in the record of the Marconigrams transmitted and received between 12:15am and 2:17am when TITANIC'S signals ended abruptly

Here now are the messages, The times quoted are Titanic Time:

12:15am. La Provence receives Titanic distress signals.

12:15am. The SS Mount Temple heard Titanic sending C.Q.D, says require assistance. Gives position. Cannot hear me. Advise my Captain his position 41.46.N 50.24.W.'

12:18am. Ypirango hears C.Q.D from Titanic. Position 41.44. N 50. 24. W. Require assistance (Calls about 10 times).

12:25am. C.Q.D Call received from Titanic by Carpathia. Titanic said "Come at once, we have struck a berg. It's a C.Q.D.O.M. (O.M. = "Old Man") Position 41. 46. N 50. 14. W".

12:26am M.G.Y. (ie Titanic's call sign) says "C.Q.D. Have corrected position, 41, 46, N 50, 14 W. Require immediate assistance. We have collision with iceberg. Sinking". Can hear nothing for noise of steam. Sent about 15 to 20 times to Ypirango.

12:27am. Titanic sends following "I require assistance immeadiately: Struck iceberg in 41. 46 N. 50. 14 W"

12:30am Titanic gives her position to Frankfurt and says "Tell your Captain to come to our help. We are on ice".

12:30am. Mount Temple hears M.G.Y (Titanic) still calling C.Q.D. Our Captain reverses ship. We are about 50 miles off.

12:45am Titanic calls Olympic S.O.S. (this is the first time the now familiar call was sent out by a ship in distress).

12:50.am. Titanic calls C.Q.D. and say's "I require immediate assistance. Position 41.46.N 50. 14. W" Received by the SS Celtic.

1:02am Titanic calls Asian and said "We want immeidiate assistance"

1:10am Titanic to M.K.C. (Olympic) "We are in collision with berg, sinking, head down 41. 46. N 50. 14. W Come as soon as possible", Captain says, "Get boats ready. What is your position".

1:25am Olympic sends position to Titanic, 40. 52. N 61. 18.W "Are you steering southerly to meet us?" Titanic replies, "We are putting the women off in boats "

1:35am. Olympic asks Titanic what weather he had ? Titanic replies "Clear and calm"

1:35am Baltic hears Titanic say "Engine room getting flooded"

1:37am. Baltic tells Titanic "We are rushing to you"

1:40am. Olympic to Titanic, "Am lighting up all possible boilers as fast as we can"

1:40am. Cape Race says to Virginian "Please tell your Captain this, "The Olympic is making all speed for Titaniic, but his (Olympic's) position is 40. 32. N 61. 18. W You are much nearer to Titanic. The Titanic is already putting women off in boats, and he say's the weather there is calm and clear. The Olympic is the only ship we have heard say, Going to the assistance of the Titanic. The others must be a long way from Titanic"

1:45am Last signals heard from Titanic by Carpathia, " Engine full up to boilers"

1:48am. Asian heard Titanic call S.O.S. Asian answers Titanic but receives no answer.

2:00am The Virginian hears Titanic calling very faintly, his power being greatly reduced.

2:17am. Virginian hears Titanic call C.Q.D. but unable to read him. Titanic's signals end abruptly as power suddenly switched off.

2:20am This was the official time the Titanic foundered in 41. 46. N 50.14. W. as given by the Carpathia in a message to Olympic.......... Now back to main theme:

8:00pm
Wireless message from East bound La Touraine describes ice field and two large Icebergs in a path directly ahead of Titanic's course.

11:00pm
Wireless apparatus fails due to a problem in the secondary circuit. The fault is corrected shortly before 5:00am Saturday.

13th April 1912
519 miles logged 12 noon Friday 12th April to 12 noon Saturday 13th April.

1:30pm
Daily inspection 9:00am to 11:00am all correct.

Noon
Shortly after noon the coal fire that had been raging in No, 6 bunker is finally extinguished.

14th April 1912
546 miles logged 12 noon Saturday 13th April to 12 noon Saturday 14th April

9:00am
Message from Noordam describes ice directly ahead of Titanic.

1:42pm
Message from Baltic warns of ice. Bruce Ismay keeps the message to show to friends and retains it till 7:15pm

10:55pm
Stopped in ice field North of Titanic's course the Leyland Liner SS Californian transmits an ice warning to the Titanic, the Californian's wireless operator Cyril Evans is cut off by Titanic's operator John George Philips before the position is transmitted.
View Titanics Radio Page

14th April 1912
11.40.pm
In the crow's nest, Look-Out Frederick Fleet warns: "Iceberg right ahead". First officer Murdoch orders the engines full astern and the helm hard a starboard in order to make a port turn around the berg. He quickly activates the lever that closes the liner's watertight doors. The Titanic strikes the iceberg at a speed of 20 knots. The contact lasts for about 10 seconds, enough time to tear a jagged , intermittant gash almost 300 feet in length* (*as was first thought by Titanic's crew) The sea's water enters the vessels forepeak, No 1 hold, No 2 hold No 3 hold and No 6 boiler room and penetrates about six foot beyond the bulkhead of No 5 boiler room.

There were reports that some workers in the boiler room tried to patch the long tears with everything they had available to them. Unfortunately, all attempts to prevent the water from rushing in were fruitless. The holes were too long and too many and the pressure was far, far too great. Imagine what you would do if you were facing a long, jagged rip in the side of your ship as the room quickly filled with frigid ocean water.

11:41pm
Captain Smith comes to the bridge and receives Murdoch's report of the collision.

Thomas Andrews
11:45pm
Engines stopped. Thomas Andrews a managing director of Harland & Wolff comes to the bridge

J Bruce Ismay
11:47pm
Ismay arrives on the bridge, and is told by Captain Smith that the ship is badly damaged. Ismay returns down below.

11:48pm
Captain Smith and Andrews leave the bridge to go and inspect the damage.

11:49pm
Water in the mail hold is rushing in and rising rapidly.
"I urged them to leave their work. They shook their heads and continued at their work. It might have been an inrush of water later that cut off their escape, or it may have been the explosion. I saw them no more".
Albert Theissinger
Steward aboard R.M.S. Titanic and survivor

11:57pm
Captain Smith and Andrews return to the bridge after their tour of inspection. Andrews calculates that the ship has only a short time ("an hour, two at the most") to remain afloat "Captain we are sinking" he states.

11:59pm
Bruce Ismay returns to the bridge and is advised of Captain Smith and Andrews thoughts and calculations on the crippled ship and her impending doom.

12:00 Midnight
Captain Smith orders Officers and boat crews mustered and to attend to their stations

15th April Lifeboat Loading

This subject on Lifeboats differs greatly from book to book and indeed from website to website. This first one presented here, is apparently not correct so please see revised list in link at foot of this section.

PORT BOATS .............................STARBOARD BOATS
No.....Time..........Total People..............No......Time..........Total People
6.......12.55am............28.....................7.......12.45am............27
8.......1.10am..............39.....................5.......12.55am............41
10.....1.20am..............55.....................3........1.00am.............50
12.....1.25am..............42.....................1........1.10am.............12 *
14.....1.3oam..............63.....................9........1.20am.............56
16.....1.35am..............56.....................11......1.25am.............70
2.......1.45am..............26*...................13......1.35am.............64
4.......1.55am..............40.....................15......1.35am.............70
D.......2.05am..............44.....................C.......1.40am.............71
B.......Floated Off..........##....................A.......Floated off.........##

*Emergency Boat with only 40 person capacity

There seems to be some controversy over Life Boat lists, check here Revised Lifeboat List This revised list was sourced here. Lifeboats Facts
Also Check here as well Titanics Lifeboats Recommended


15th April 1912
12.02am
The boats are uncovered. The order is given to muster the passengers.

Jack Phillips & Harold Bride
12:14am
Captain Smith tells wireless operator Phillips and his assistant Bride to send the Signals for distress.

12:15am
First distress signal transmitted C.Q.D "Come Quick Danger". This is heard by La Provence and SS Mount Temple and Cape Race Now click here for more on the Wireless Station at Cape Race

The Carpathia
12:18am to 12:30am
Titanic's CQD is heard by the SS Carpathia
and the Frankfurt. "I require assistance immediately, have struck Iceberg at 41' 46' N. 50' 14' W. Tell your Captains to come to our help, we are sinking".

Fourth Officer Boxhall
12:25am
Fourth officer Boxhall sights the masthead light's of a nearby vessel about five miles away.
The Carpathia intercept's Titanic's CQD. Captain Arthur H Rostron sees that he is 58 miles to the southwest of the stricken Titanic and changes course.

12:30am
Boxhall orders Quartermaster Rowe to signal the nearby vessel with morse lamp, but no answer is received.
Titanic notifies Olympic, "We are in collision with iceberg, Sinking head down at 41' 48N'... 50' 14W'. come as soon as possible".

12:35am
Rostron musters the entire crew to receive survivors. Carpathia speed is increased to 17½ knots some 3½ knots faster than customery.

12:45am
Boxhall, assisted by the Quartermaster George Rowe fires the first distress rocket. Seven more are fired during the next 15 minutes at 5 to 10 minute intervals. Rowe using the Morse Lamp, tries repeatedly to signal the nearby ship which appears to be approaching but still gets no answer.
Titanic calls Olympic . CQD SOS, the first time this was ever sent.
First lifeboat, Starboard No 7 is lowered 27 persons onboard.

12:55am
Then Lifeboat 6 / 28 onboard & lifeboat... 5 / 41 onboard is lowered.

1:00am
Number 3 lifeboat launched 50 0nboard

1:10am
Lifeboat No 8 is lowered under Captain Smith's direction, 39 persons onboard, also starboard emergency boat No1 / 12 persons onboard.

1:20am
Lifeboat 10 with 55 onboard is lowered as is lifeboat No 9 / 56 onboard.

1:25am
The nearby ship, sighted earlier, now shows her stern light and appears to be steaming away
Olympic ask's "are you steering southerly to meet us", Titanic replies, "We are stationary and putting off the women into the lifeboats"
Lifeboat 13 / 64 persons onboard,Boat 11 / 70 onboard, lifeboat 11, its capacity exceeded by 5 for a total of 70 on board is lowered.

1:30am
Lifeboat 14 is next lowered 63 persons onboard

1:35am
Olympic asks "What weather have you"??.... Titanic replies, " Clear and calm". Then "Engine room is now getting flooded"
Lifeboat 16 / 56 person. and lifeboat 15 / 70 person are lowered.

1.40.am
Last of rockets fired from the stricken Titanic
Collapsible boat "C" is launched 71 onboard.

1:45am
Last message heard by Carpathia from the Titanic "Engine room full up to bunkers"
Lifeboat 4, quartermaster Walter Perkis in charge, 40 persons on board. 8 swimmers are picked up from the sea, two of whom die in the boat.

1:47am
Coronia hears Titanic's, but the signals are unreadable.

1:48.am
Asian hears Titanic's SOS and answers, but receives no response

2:05.am
D Lifeboat launched 44 person onboard

2:20.am
Olympic in contact with Hellig Olav.Asks if he has heard anything from Titanic, to which the Hellig Olav replies: "Not keeping strict watch, but heard nothing more from Titanic". Titanics Resting Place
. Note:....... This is the official time of Titanic's sinking As Titanic goes under, collapsible boats A and B float off the boat deck. Boat A swamps as it reaches the water. It remains upright but half submerged. Boat B overturns as it is swept clear by a wave created by the collapse of the forward funnel.

Quatermaster Hitchens
2:30.am
Boat 14 rounds up and ties together boats 10, 19,4 and collapsable D. Boat 5 starts to return to the wreck but turns away at several female passengers requests. Quartermaster Hichens in charge of boats refuses to return to the wreck.

2:40am
Quartermaster Walter J Perkins of boat 4 searches for survivors some 900 feet from the wreck. Eight swimmers are taken aboard from the freezing water. One dies in the boat and another aboard the rescue ship Carpathia

3:00am
Officer Harold Lowe searches for survivors, he only finds four, and one dies soon after rescue. Boats 6 and 16 tie up together as does boats 5 & 7

3:15am
During Carpathia's approach from the South East, when about 12 miles from Titanic's distress position, the masthead light of a nearby vessel is seen from the bridge.

3:30am
Entering the area of ice, Carpathia must dodge and repeatedly turn to avoid striking passing icebergs. Rostron orders the ships speed reduced to half ahead then to slow.

4:00am
Arriving at what he estimates is the site of Titanic's wireless distress signals, Captain Rostron orders the liners engines stopped.

4:03am
The green lights from Titanic's boat 2 is sighted about 300 yards directly ahead of the Carpathia.

4:04am
Her engines stopped. Carpathia has barely enough way to dodge a passing iceberg and swings around to take aboard survivors through the shelter deck's open gangway.


4:10am
Boat 2 is alongside Carpathia. Its occupants are taken aboard.


4:20am
As dawn breaks, Titanic's boats and collapsibles approach one by one.

4:35am
Boat 13 is picked up.

4:50am
In dawn's increasing light, collapsible "A" distress can be seen clearly. Fifth Officer Lowe's boat 14 takes collapsible "D" in tow and with sail raised heads for collapsible "A". One of the men dies before he can be taken aboard Carpathia.

5:00am
The horizon lights up. Captain Rostron sights two steamships to the north, perhaps seven or eight miles distant.

5:10am
Boat seven comes to the Carpathia,

5:20am
Lowe casts collapsible boat A adrift, seacocks open. Left aboard are the remains of first class passenger Thomas Beattie from Winnipeg, Manotoba, also an unidentified seaman and an unidentified fireman.

6:00.am
A breeze rises, low waves was with increasing frequency into overloaded boats. Collapsible B's stability is maintained only by a delictae balancing manouver by its standing occupants, led by Second Officer Charles Lightoller, Boats 4 & 11 row up to the rapidly submerging collapsable whose occupants switch boats.

6:10am
Carpathia establishes wireless contact with the eastbound Cunard liner Franconia, and with the Sable Island land station. Carpathia is 498 miles east of New York.
One by one the boats gather at Carpathia's side. The survivors come aboard.

6:15am Collapsible C

7:00am Boat 14, and collapsible D in tow.
During the day, Carpathia is in wireless contact with the tug Mary F Scully, chartered by the newspaper the Boston Globe, with wireless operator Jack Binns aboard. In the exchange of signals, rumours are dispelled and survivors lists verified.

7:30am Boat 4 alongside Carpathia.

8:00am. Boat 6 the first to leave Titanic's port side, at 12:55am arrives, Captain Rostron orders Carpathia's house flag lowered to half mast.
Also at 8:00am In his cabin on board the Carpathia, Bruce Ismay, head of the White Star Line, prepares a message for New York. "Deeply regret to advise you Titanic sank this morning after a collision with an iceberg resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later. Signed Bruce Ismay" Captain Rostron approves its transmission. It is sent that afternoon via the Olympic to Cape Sable and Halifax. Astray in a tangle of unofficial red tape the message is not received at New York until about 9:00am on Wenesday 17th April.

8:20am Eastbound WS Liner Baltic receives an unofficial message from Carpathia, "The Titanic has gone down with all hands, as far as we know, with the exception of 20 boatloads, which we have picked up. Numbers not accurately fixed yet. Can not see any more boats about at all" Baltic's Commander Captain Joseph B Raoson decides not to forward the message to any other wireless land or ship station.

8:30amBoat 12, which departed Titanics port side at 1:25am with 43 three aboard arrives alongside Carpathia bearing more than 70 survivors, additional survivors transfered from collapsible D and B having been made at sea. Second Officer Lightoller is the last to disembark, the final Titanic survivor to board the Carpathia.


Carpathia's Passengers tend to Titanic's Survivors
on the Boat Deck of the Carpathia

8:30am Arriving along the ice field's edge, the Californian pulls up to Carpathia.

8:50am The Carpathia sets off heading towards New York, whilst the Californian remains to search the disaster site for additional bodies.



9:00am At Captain Rostron's suggestion a service of rememberance and a Thanks Giving is conducted in the First Class dining saloon, led by Carpathia passenger, the Reverend B T Anderson. Following the service and throughout the morning a roster of the survivors is compiled.

3:50pm The Carpathia establishes radio contact with the Olympic, who relays messages to land stations. Ismay's message and those prepared earlier by Captain Rostron are sent. Wireless contact between the two liners continues until 10:00pm when distance weakens the signals into silence. The names of 122 first and second class survivors are transmitted.

4:00pm Carpathia's engines are stopped, her flag already is at half mast. From her deck, bodies of four vivtims who died in the boats are committed to the deep. Both Catholic and Episcopal clergy officiate.
A dense fog enshrouds the Carpathia during the evening as she heads for New York. The fog continues well into tuesday morning.

6:00pm Tuesday. The Carpathia approaches New York

7:00pm Off Staten Island, the liner takes aboard Dr Joseph J O'Connel the port physician.

8:40pm The Carpathia comes to a stop in mid river, in the vicinity of Pier 60 at th foot of West 20th Street. Titanic's lifeboats are lowered to the water and towed by tugs to the pier head between Piers 59 & 60. Carpathia moves slowly down river to her own Pier 54 at the foot of West 14th Street

9:30pm Carpathia docks and lowers her gangways. Aboard are 143 of her own passengers, 325 Officers and Crew and 755 living survivors of Titanic's tragic loss.
755? - There were only 712.
For the number of Carpathia passengers, I note that in ANTR, Walter Lord refers to 150 1st Class and 575 steerage passengers. # Corrections By Lester Mitcham.

9:35pm Titanic's first and second class survivors disembark. Most of the 217 passengers are met by friends and family members.
217? - There were 319 1st & 2nd Class survivors. # LM

11:00pm The 174 third class survivors emerge from the aft gangway. They are met by representatives of various relief agencies.
174? - There were 181 3rd Class survivors. #LM

11:30pm Last to leave Carpathia, also by way of the aft gangway, are 214 survivors of Titanic crew.
214? - There were only 212 surviving Crew. # LM
They are taken upriver to Pier 60, where they board the Red Star Liner 'SS Lapland'. Here they are fed and assigned bunks in Lapland's third class area.

New York During the night of 18/19th April, men employed by the White Star Line remove the name plates, markings and sailing equipment from Titanic's lifeboats, but not before thefts occur.
US Congressional Investigators led by Senator William Alden Smith begin two days of hearings at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
London England, Memorial service for Titanic's victims conducted at St Paul's Cathedral

New York 10:00am Red Star Liner Lapland departs for England. Aboard are 167 survivors of Titanic's crew: 147 men 20 women. 34 of Titanic's crew remain behind to testify at the American Hearings by order of Senator Smith.
167 & 34 = 201, what about the other 11?
In their book: Titanic Destination Disaster, Eaton & Haas refer to 4 officers and 34 'ordinary' crew = 38, which leaves 7 Crew unaccounted for. - I understand one or more may have remained in Hospital in NY All marked entries #LM courtesy and thanks to Lester Mitcham

4:00pm The Carpathia departs New York to continue her interupted voyage to Gibraltar and the Mediteranean.

22nd April 1912 Washington.D.C. United States Congressional Investigation opens at the Capitol.

29th April Plymouth England SS Lapland arrives.

30th April Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Mackay Bennet returns from having recovered 306 bodies: 116 of which are buried at sea.
Southampton England, 9.00.pm After interrogation at Plymouth, Titanic's surviving crew arrive home.

May 1912 First bodies of Titanic's dead are buried.

13th May at sea. Titanic's collapsible boat A set adrift on the 15th April by fifth officer Lowe is found by White Star's Oceanic, westbound, Southampton to New York. The three bodies aboard this boat are buried at sea.

15th May, St John's Newfoundland Steamer Algerine departs on a search for bodies. Only one is found, Titanic's steward James McGrady.

19th May, Washington DC The 17th and final day of the US Congress's Titanic hearings.

26th May, Washington DC US Congressional committee releases its report on Titanic's loss, nobody indicted, but many safety laws drawn up.

8th June, at Sea, the freighter Ilford, eastbound from Galveston to Hamburg, recovers the last body from the Titanic disaster, that of steward W.F.Cheverton. The body is re-committed to the sea.

12th. June Halifax Nova Scotia. Final burial at Halifax of a Titanic victim, steward James McGrady. All in all 358 bodies were found, 129 were buried at sea, and of the 209 bodies returned to Halifax, 150 were buried there in three cemetaries in the city, 39 bodies were claimed and were shipped to other locations.

9th March 1913 Dundee Scotland. The ship Scottia departs on a two month cruise off Newfoundland banks to patrol for Ice. Subsequently the North Atlantic Ice Patrol is established. Financed by signatories to an international convention, the service is provided by the United States Coast Guard. The Patrol continues to the present day, and is now conducted primarily by surveillance aircraft and orbiting satelites.

22.nd June 1915 New York, Opening day of hearings regarding the request by White Star Line to limit its liability. The hearings are to determine and apportion the lost liner's salvage value and insurance among $16,804,112 in claims.

9th November 1915 Off Cape Matapan. Greece. The leyland Liner Californian is torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine, One life is lost, and another link with Titanic gone.

28th July 1916. New York. United States Judge, Julius M Mayer signs a decree ending all suits against Titanic's owners and providing pro rata distribution amomng claimants of $683,000. which represents salvage and insurance proceeds.

21st Novenmber 1916 Off Port St Nikolo Greece. Titanic's siter ship the HMHS Britannic, in war service as a hospital ship. Strikes a mine in the Agean sea. Of the ships 673 crew and 392 hospital staff aboard, 21 are lost. The liner sinks in 10 minutes. Violet Jessop who was a Titanic Stewdardess and survived the Titanic disaster was also aboard the Britannic and survived that disaster as well.

17th July 1918 North Atlantic. The Cunard liner Carpathia is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine with the loss of five lives, again another link to the Titanic to rest on the ocean floor.

15th April 1923. North Atlantic, in the vicinity of 41*46*N..50*14*W. On deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Modoc, the first memorial service for Titanic's victims is held at the site upon the disasters anniversary. The observance becomes an annual event. It now consists of a wreath dropped by an aircraft.


October 26th 1932: Margaret 'Molly' Brown dies in New York City, USA, at age 65. Cause of Death: Believed to be a stroke. She became known after her death as 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown', although she was never called Molly during her life. When the Titanic collided with the iceberg and began to sink, she helped many others to the lifeboats before being forced into one herself. Once in the water, she demanded that women would be allowed to row as well as men.

5th April 1935. New York, Olympic, first born of the three sisterships and the remaining one afloat and in service, departs on Number 257 eastbound, her final transatlantic voyage, "Old Reliable" Arrives at Southampton on the 12th April.
After 24 years of safe and reliable service, including war service
carrying troops, and four major refittings, Olympic is finally retired. The historic Olympic Suite in the White Swan Hotel, set in the heart of Alnwick, has the original panelling, mirrors, ceiling and stained glass salvaged from the RMS Olympic, the Titanic's sister ship. The hotel also has the Olympic's staircase which featured so prominently in the recent blockbusting film.

17th October 1936 Joseph Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Lines, dies in Mayfiar, in London, England at the age of 74 of a cerebral thrombosis.

4th November 1940 England Death at the age of 71 of Sir Arthur Rostron, Carpathia's commander at the time if the Titanic survivor's rescue and subsequently Cunards commodore. His body is buried at the West End Church in Southampton, next to his wife Ethel Minnie Rostron, who died three years later.

Summer 1953 Southampton England. An attempt to locate Titanic's wreck made by Southampton's Marine Salvage firm Risdon Beasley Ltd. Beween 30th July and 5th August. Armed with acoustic technology developed for geophysical surveys of the seabed, voyaged out to the Titanic’s last known location. They detonated underwater explosives in order to create a series of low frequency acoustic pulses reasoning that if the sound pulses struck the Titanic’s enormous hulk, they would “bounce” back towards the salvage vessel’s hydrophones revealing her location on the sea floor. High explosives are use to generate a bottom profile "Echo" in an unsuccessful search.

25th January 1962 Cheshire England Death at the age of 84 of Stanely Lord. Late master of the Leyland line freighter Californian.

January 10th 1965: Frederick Fleet, the lookout who was the first person to see the iceberg, dies in Southampton at 76. He sold newspapers on street corners in that town.

1967: 2nd Class Survivor, the schoolmaster Lawrence Beesley, who was praised for his written account of the disaster and was an advisor on the 1958 film 'A Night To Remember', dies at the age 89.

30th May 1983 Portsmouth England, Death of Titanic's last surviving crewman, Mr Sydney E. Daniels who at the age of 18 was a lift opertor aboard the liner

Dr Robert Ballard: The Man Who Found Titanic
July 1985 North Atlantic. Captain Jean Louis Michael & Dr Robert Ballard, on a joint expedition from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and IFREMER (Insttut Francais de Recherches L'Eploration des mers) search the site onboard IFREMER's ship La Suroit from 7th August to 9th August in vain.

August 1985 North Atlantic. Captain Jean-Louis Michael and Dr Ballard search the site with the US Navy Ship Knorr, between 17th August and 5th September. On September 1st Jean-Louis Michael's watch spots Titanic's wreck lying in two sections. The Liner, the RMS Titanic is no longer lost.


July 1986: Dr. Ballard returns to Titanic wreck site with a second expedition. Landing the submersible Alvin on her decks, he explores and photographs the entire wreck and debris field in great detail.

1986-1994: Numerous expeditions to the Titanic Wreck Site to retrieve artifacts from the sea bed.

1994: 'The Wreck of the Titanic' - a major Titanic Exhibition opens at the National Maritime Museum, London, displaying artifacts recovered by RMS Titanic Inc. between 1987 and 1993.


1995: Director James Cameron begins production on a movie based on the disaster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.


14th February 1996: Eva Hart, the last survivor with articulate memories of the sinking, dies in England at the age of 91.


December 18th 1997: 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. It goes on to win 11 Academy Awards.


August 10th 1998: A twenty ton section of Titanic's hull, (nick-named 'The Big Piece') measuring 26ft x 30ft, was raised to the surface by RMS Titanic Inc.

August 15th 1998: Another historic moment for the Titanic. The USA cable network "Discovery Channel" launches the broadcast "TITANIC LIVE" (a two-hour live broadcast from the wreck site), which brings together over 100 scientists from all around the world. They are the first, to televise a dive, live, to the Titanic's resting place 2½ miles under the ocean's surface.


2001: One of the last known male survivors of the Titanic, Michel Navratil, dies in southern France at the age of 92.

July 01st 2001: (Some sources state August 01st) Amid widespread controversy Americans David Leibowitz and Kimberley Miller are married inside a deep sea submersible at the gravesite of the Titanic. David Leibowitz and Kimberley Miller exchanged vows in a tiny submarine resting on the liner after they won tickets given away by Subsea Explorer, an internet company set up by Kirk Stephens and Aiden Feeney.


May 06th 2006 The last American survivor of the Titanic dies at the age of 99. Lillian Gertrud Asplund was the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking, but she shunned publicity and rarely spoke about that day in 1912