When did the Titanic sink? In which strait?

The Titanic (English RMS Titanic, proper name: Titanic) was a luxury passenger ship built in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century and was the largest luxury passenger ship in the world at the time. It was called the "Forever" at the time. "Unsinkable", but on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 15, 1912, it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Due to the lack of enough lifeboats, 1,500 people died at the bottom of the sea, resulting in a peacetime crisis. The most serious maritime accident and by far the most famous.

Titanic was built at the Harnand Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland's largest city. The hull was launched on May 31, 1911. She was also the second Olympic-class steamship built by the White Star Line at the same shipyard. It was the largest and most prestigious manned cruise ship at the time. Titanic is 260 meters long, 28 meters wide and weighs approximately 46,000 tons. Although she contained more space resulting in a greater gross tonnage. Her hull is still exactly the same size as her predecessor Olympic. There are 899 crew members on board and can carry 3,300 passengers. Because she also carried mail, she was also called the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic. Only three of the four huge chimneys actually work. The remaining one was a foil, its only practical use being as a chimney for the main kitchen.

The Titanic was an unparalleled luxury at the time. Although she was not the first ship to offer an on-deck swimming pool, gym, bathrooms and lifts, she went to great lengths to provide a level of service never seen before. For first-class passengers, she provided three lifts; as an innovation, she provided one lift for second-class passengers. Economy class passengers still have to climb stairs. One of her most famous features is her grand staircase. James Cameron faithfully recreated this staircase in his film.

Titanic is considered a landmark work of technical achievement. 16 watertight compartments prevented her from sinking. A crew member said to Sylvia Caldwell, a second-class female passenger, during the voyage: "Even if God himself came, he could not sink this ship."

The Titanic was On April 10, 1912, it departed from Southampton, a port city in southern England, bound for New York, the United States. The captain's name was Edward Smith. As she was about to set sail, another scheduled ship, the New York, nearly hit her hull due to the large volume moving in the water and the attraction of the massive backfill, causing a one-hour delay. After setting off, Titanic first crossed the English Channel and anchored in Cherbourg, France, accepting more passengers, and then anchored in Queenstown, Ireland. Finally, she sailed to New York carrying 1,324 passengers and 892 deck staff. The Titanic divided passengers into three classes. Third-class cabins were also the cheapest on the lower decks of the ship. Most of the passengers in this category were immigrants who planned to build a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. The decorations of the second-class cabins and ordinary guest rooms were actually the same as those of other ordinary ships at that time. The same class as the cabin. Many second-class passengers originally booked first-class cabins on other ships, but gave up because of the Titanic's voyage and the transfer of coal energy to the Titanic; first-class cabins are the most expensive and luxurious on the entire ship. , some of the world's richest celebrities were on this journey. The more famous ones are the millionaires of the time (theoretically in pounds or US dollars) John Jacob Astor and his wife, entrepreneur Benjamin Guggenheim, Macy's Department Store owners Isador and Ida Staus, the "unsinkable" Molly Brown and others. White Star Cruises executive J. Bruce Ismay and hull designer Thomas Andrews also traveled in first class on the ship. On the night of April 14, she hit an iceberg. During the collision with the iceberg, due to a misjudgment, an emergency turn was made at high speed. As a result, the iceberg made a long crack in the bottom of the ship while turning and moving forward. Not only did the rivet under the waterline on the starboard side become damaged. It broke loose due to the impact and flooded six watertight compartments. In the end, too much water entered, causing the hull to tilt to an alarming level close to the hull's plumbness (perpendicular to the horizontal plane), and the tilt allowed water to continue pouring in. In the end, the hull could not support the weight, and half of the hull that was on the water broke off and fell, and then sank on the port side of the ship. Women and children were loaded into the rescue boat. On the starboard side, men are allowed to board the boat after women escape first. Therefore, more people were rescued on the starboard side than on the port side.

Contrary to popular belief, the internationally accepted Morse code distress signal SOS was indeed used when the Titanic sank, but this was not the earliest example of SOS being used. On the sea outside Berlin in 1906, the International Radiocommunication Conference proposed the SOS signal for the first time. The international community recognized this proposal and slowly began to use it widely in 1908, four years before the sinking of the Titanic.

However, British radio operators rarely used SOS signals, preferring the older CQD distress signal. Titanic's chief radio officer, John George Philip, had been sending CQD distress signals until junior radio operator Harold. Brad suggested to him: Send SOS, this is the new call signal, this may also be your last chance to send it! Philip then mixed the SOS signal with the traditional CQD distress signal. The distress signal was eventually received by the USS California the next morning, as she was not monitoring the radio 24 hours a day.

This disaster shocked the international community. Because it proves to some people that people and people's technological achievements cannot be compared with the power of nature.

Even today, a century later, several absurd theories about the Titanic and its sinking still exist. One is: her rudder was too small, a larger rudder would have avoided this disaster. A larger rudder might have saved her, as her rudder was not legally small for the size of the ship at the time. In fact, according to today's regulations for ships, the size of the Titanic's rudder is still qualified. Another way to put it is: There were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic. In fact, her number of lifeboats complied with British law, which determined the number of lifeboats not based on the number of passengers but on the tonnage of the ship. All ships at the time had far fewer lifeboats than were needed. The purpose of the lifeboats at that time was not to carry all passengers; they were only used to transfer passengers from one sinking ship to another rescue ship. on board. The sinking of the Titanic permanently changed this life-saving strategy. In fact, even if she had the number of lifeboats to accommodate all the passengers, there is still a chance that no more people would be saved. The crew did not have time to lower all the lifeboats as she sank! Another theory is that the crew of the mechanical crew insisted on their posts until the end. A book published in 1988 also mentioned this and made it immortal. The fact is: the mechanical cabin was flooded at 1:15AM. In the final moments of the sinking, the mechanics and furnace workers stood on the stern deck along with hundreds of other people, trapped on the ship without any hope of rescue.

The sinking of the Titanic greatly affected ship manufacturing and radio and telegraph communications. On December 12, 1913, the first International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea was held in London, England. The treaty established by the conference led to the formation and funding of the International Iceberg Detection Organization. A branch of the reorganized U.S. Coast Guard that to this day detects and reports icebergs in the North Atlantic that may threaten shipping. The treaty also agreed on a new provision: all manned ships should have enough lifeboats to carry all people on board, and appropriate relevant training should also be carried out. Also, radio communications should be open 24 hours a day, with a secondary backup power supply, so that calls for help are not missed.

The treaty also agrees: Any rocket sent from a ship must be interpreted as a distress signal