What was the whole process of the sinking of Titanic?

At 23: 39, after the iceberg was discovered, the Titanic changed direction in time to avoid a head-on collision, but this change also caused the ship to rush to the obstacle due to friction. The iceberg touched underwater along the starboard side of the ship for about 7 seconds. Due to the collision, some ice flakes from the top of the iceberg fell to the well floor. A few minutes later, all the engines stopped, and the bow headed north, drifting in the Labrador current in southern Newfoundland.

At 2 o'clock 15, the inclination angle of Titanic in the water began to increase rapidly, because a large amount of seawater invaded the submerged part of the ship from the deck hatch. Her sudden increase in angle caused an impact, which survivors called "huge waves." It swept the deck of the boat from behind and swept many people into the sea.

At that time, several people were trying to untie two folding boats fixed above Guan Hai's living quarters, including first mate Henry Wilde, first mate William Murdoch, second mate Charles Letolet and first class passenger archibald Gracie IV. They were all washed away with two folding boats (B folding boat covered Harold Brad, the junior operator, and A folding boat was flooded, but there was no canvas edge). Brad, Gracie and Lettole later climbed the capsized B-boat, but Murdoch and Wilde were buried in the sea.

When the waves hit, Lettole jumped into the water from the roof of Guan Hai's residence. He was sucked on the grille by the ventilation pipe and then blown out by the "strong hot air and hot water" from the boiler room. He went upstream and surfaced beside the overturned B-fold boat. 1 The chimney collapsed under its own weight (50 to 60 metric tons) and several people fell into the water.

Some people were crushed to death by the chimney, but Lettole just dodged, and others barely grabbed the lifeboat. The collapsed chimney caused a wave and washed away everything within 46 meters. People still on the Titanic felt great pressure on the hull structure and there was obvious vibration. As first-class passenger Jack Thayer described it:

Occasionally there will be muffled sound or explosion in the boat. Without warning, she suddenly began to sink forward at an angle of about 15 degrees. When the waves rushed towards us, they were accompanied by a loud roar and a deeper voice. At that time, it was like standing under a railway steel bridge. A high-speed train roared from a height, filled with the mixed sound of steel distortion and large-scale porcelain bursting.

When the ship tilted in the water, witnesses saw the stern of the Titanic rise, and it was said that it made an angle of 30 to 45 degrees with the sea. Laurence Besley, a second-class passenger, said, "Obviously, the whole ship revolves around the center of gravity in the middle of the ship." . Many survivors described that the ship made a loud noise at that time, and some of them thought that the noise came from the explosion of the boiler.

Lawrence Besley described it this way: "Part of it is a groan of metal, part of it is a creaking sound, and part of it is a crushing sound. It's not a sudden roar, because the explosion will last for a few seconds, even 15 to 20 minutes. " He attributed this loud noise to "the engine and mechanical devices came loose from the bolts and bearings, and then fell from the computer room, smashing everything."

After another minute, all the lights on the ship flashed and then went out completely, and the Titanic fell into darkness. Jack Thayer recalled: "There were 1500 people on board, gathered together tightly like bees;" Then the huge stern stood upright and went straight into the sky. "

Titanic encountered two kinds of extreme stresses (at least tens of thousands of metric tons)-the bow full of seawater pulled her down, while the air at the stern remained buoyant, keeping her on the sea surface-and these two opposing forces encountered in the weakest parts of the structure, namely 1 and the smoke shafts used by boiler houses No.2 * * *, and they were pulled down by this stress. The stress peak was reached shortly after the lights went out, and the ship split from the middle.

The submerged bow may be connected with the stern for a short time through the double dragon bone, and the stern will be pulled to a high angle and floated for about a minute before it is completely separated. The internal structure of the stern is completely open in seawater, so it sinks into the water very quickly, which causes it to tilt, and then slows down the sinking speed for a period of time until it sinks completely. ....

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It took 2 hours and 40 minutes from hitting an iceberg to completely sinking. (The chief designer's initial idea was only 2 hours)

3: 30: The Canard passenger ship Carpathia (also known as Carpathian) arrived at the scene of the accident first. At 4 o'clock, the crew of Carpathia found the first lifeboat in the twilight of the North Atlantic. The rescue work continued until 8: 30 in the morning, and the lifeboat 12 tied the rescue cable.

Of the 2224 crew and passengers on the Titanic, only 705 survived. The captain and priest of the Carpathia hosted a mourning ceremony in the dining room. At about 8: 50 in the morning, turn around and return to new york.

After the Carpathian arrived in new york Port. Thousands of people watched them pass the Statue of Liberty on the Waterray coast of Manhattan Island. At Pier 54, about 30,000 people stood in the rain, silently welcoming the survivors of the Titanic.

The news of the sinking of Titanic shocked the whole western world. At that time, people were no less shocked than the 9. 1 1 incident in the United States in this century. Flags were flown at half-mast in many places on both sides of the Atlantic. King George V of England and President Taft of the United States exchanged messages of condolence. Kaiser Wilhelm II also sent a message of condolence.

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