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19 12 April 14, Sunday night, a calm night, even no wind at all. If there is, the crew will find that the waves beat the small scales of the iceberg. Titanic sailed on this dark and cold ocean at a speed of 22.3 knots (the limit speed was 24 knots). Captain Smith ordered the lookout to observe carefully after receiving ice reports from many ships nearby. Because this year is a cold winter, icebergs drift farther south than in previous years. But the crew of Titanic couldn't find the telescope (because the only telescope on board was locked in the cupboard by the second mate, and the second mate who kept the key of the cupboard didn't get on board at last), so the lookout had to observe with the naked eye.

At 23: 40, Frederic fleet, a lookout, found a shadow "the size of two tables" in the distance, and it became bigger at a fast speed. He knocked the alarm bell on the bridge three times and grabbed the phone: "There is an iceberg directly ahead!" " ".The six Moody's who answered the phone informed the next Murdoch. Murdoch immediately ordered the bell to ring: "All engines slow down! Left full rudder! Thruster three, reverse! "It took the lookout only 37 seconds to find that the iceberg hit the starboard side of the ship.

The first mate immediately gave two orders: full rudder left, and the propeller of the whole ship retreated urgently. It turned out that the first command was a fatal mistake. Just 37 seconds after he gave the order, the Titanic was too big and too fast to stop moving in time and hit an iceberg.

19 12 On the cold night in April, the Titanic and the iceberg kissed each other to death: the starboard side of the ship collided with the bottom of the iceberg, so violently that a big mouth about 93 meters long was drawn under the waterline in front of the starboard side, and all cargo holds and No.6 boiler room began to turn into the sea.

The result of this collision was later known to people. But at that time, the passengers and crew on board reacted differently. Some passengers who didn't sleep well in first class and second class were awakened by a slight metal scraping sound. The hull gave a slight vibration. Some people think it's a big wave, some people think it's hitting the rocks, and some people think it's propeller failure. But the passengers in the cabin below felt much stronger vibration. Some passengers saw milky white icebergs passing by outside the porthole. Some scraped ice fell into the cabin. The immigrant passengers on the ground floor were even more shocked to find that the cold sea water was overflowing the car door from a place I didn't know. The ship stopped soon. Some passengers put on their coats and came to the deck. The stars are shining over the North Atlantic, the temperature is as low as MINUS one degree, and the water temperature is even lower. Under the dark sky, the windows of the Titanic exuded warm light yellow, and four tall yellow and black chimneys braved white steam smoke. Suddenly, the three of them suddenly gave a deafening roar and scream. Passengers who know about steam engines know that it is the boiler safety valve on board that releases excess superheated high-pressure steam.

Captain Smith and thomas andrew, chief shipbuilding engineer of Harlan Wolf Company, who were informed, inspected the damage. The five carriages in front are all submerged in the sea. The sea seems to be flowing through H deck in an orderly way. In the dim light of the mail cabin, packages of mail floated on the sea. After checking all watertight compartments, Andrew said quietly to Captain Smith, "This ship is hopeless." . Captain Smith asked how much time was left, and the answer was one hour, two hours at the most. What happened after that is already very clear to everyone. At 0: 05 am on June 5438+05, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboat to be released.

00: 15, Titanic issued "CQD"

MGY "distress signal. CQD was the universal distress signal at that time, and MGY was the radio calling code of Titanic. Soon after, the SOS distress signal newly determined by the International Maritime Association was issued. Many ships in the Atlantic Ocean have received distress telegrams. The Temple Mount of Canadian Pacific Company, Capecia of Canard Company, the Russian cargo ship Myanmar, Frankfurt, Virginia and Olympic are all accelerating to the accident site. The exception is that the operator of the tramp passenger ship "California" just outside 18 nautical miles turned off the telegram and went to sleep. The ship has been trapped by ice floes for nearly a day, and nothing serious happened on board all night, as if nothing serious would happen. If the ship had rescued at full speed after receiving the telegram, it could have arrived at the scene before sinking, but it didn't.

At 0045 hours, the first lifeboat was lowered. The ship launched its first rocket in distress. A shining white spark slowly falls.

At 0: 55, the bow of the Titanic was submerged. The work by the lifeboat is a mess. Although the virtue of women and children boarding lifeboats first has been observed, many lifeboats are lowered in mid-air. Results 1 178 people can be carried in the lifeboat, and only 65 1 people got on it (someone jumped into the sea and was rescued from the lifeboat). On the port side of the ship, lifeboats only carry women and children. On the starboard side, men are allowed to board the ship only after women have the priority to escape. So more people were rescued on the starboard side than on the port side.

1: 40, the last folding lifeboat was put into the sea. Led by Wallace Hartley, the conductor of the band, eight people on board continued to play music for the passengers to appease those who were doomed to die in a few minutes, and they played until the last minute. Faced with the choice between life and death, some people choose to die like a gentleman. Rich Guggenheim put on his evening dress. "Even if you die, you must die like a gentleman." Mrs Evans from Denver gave her lifeboat seat to the mother of a child, while Ismail, the chairman of White Star Company, left his passengers, crew and his boat at the last minute and jumped into the lifeboat. The goodness and evil of human nature are exposed here. As more and more sea water poured into the front of the hull, the stern gradually left the water and tilted high. 65438+ At 0: 35 in the morning, seawater was immersed in the boiler room.

10: 02, Phillips, who has been sticking to his post, sent the last distress telegram.

At 2: 00 13, 29 large boilers on board left the base one after another, collided with each other and broke a watertight wall. The bow of the ship broke a big hole and fell into the sea. At 2: 00 17, seawater flooded into the central power control room, causing a short circuit and the lights of the whole ship went out.

18 at 2: 00 am, with a loud noise, the Titanic hull broke in two from the middle of chimneys 2 and 3.

2: 18, the bow part sank into the sea, and the latter part hit the sea surface. Because the stern entered the water, the bow was pulled, and the stern slowly tilted up and sank.

19 at two o'clock, because of the huge pressure, the bow was separated from the stern underwater and sank at high speed.

The stern fell vertically into the sea because of continuous water inflow, and disappeared completely in the Atlantic Ocean at 2: 20. It took only 2 hours and 40 minutes from hitting an iceberg to completely sinking. The original idea was only 1 hour and 50 minutes.

At 23: 40, the right side of the hull hit an iceberg, the rivet at the bow was loose, the waterproof partition was partially cracked, countless tiny but narrow cracks appeared in the first five bilges, seawater kept pouring in, and the waterproof gates were closed in time, making all bilges 16 independent watertight compartments.

23: 50: 4000 tons of seawater has poured into the bow and the seawater is blocked by waterproof boards.

0:00:7000 tons of seawater poured into the bow. The water has flooded three bow cargo holds, overflowed from the top exit of the watertight compartment and began to flow to the bottom of the third-class compartment. The bow began to sink slowly. A large number of crew members in boiler room 6 are trying to remove stagnant water. Thomas andrew, the designer, then concluded in the master's room that the ship was hopeless.

0: 15: Titanic issued "CQD"

MGY ",and then as the first passenger ship to send out SOS distress signal, it sent out SOS distress signal. Among them, the nearest California failed to receive the distress telegram in time because the telegraph operator turned off the telegram, and among all the ships that could receive the telegram, the nearest was the Carpathian, which then came to the Titanic as quickly as possible, but even so, it would take at least 4 hours to arrive at the scene. The crew on the Titanic began to prepare to release the lifeboat.

0: 20: The ship has sunk 6 meters, and the left and right rows of portholes are flooded and half-open, resulting in a continuous increase in water inflow. The water depth of boiler room 6 is more than 4 meters, so the engineer had to give up here, and the pump still tried its best to pump water, but this could only slow down the sinking speed of the bow slightly.

At 0: 40, the boiler room No.6 and the whole watertight compartment No.5 were flooded. Water has poured into the E floor from the top of the No.6 waterproof board. There is no waterproof facility here, and the water is pouring down from the top. The sixth cabin began to fill with water and the hull gradually tilted. The terrible low voice of the waterproof board in front can be heard from the boiler room No.5, and the crew who are rescuing the mail in the mailroom have become the first victims of the Titanic. All lifeboats are ready. The crew began to persuade the first-class passengers (women and children) to board the lifeboat. Boat 7 was the first lifeboat to be lowered, but the lifeboat with a maximum capacity of 65 passengers only carried a dozen passengers.

0: 45: The waterproof board between boiler rooms 6 and 5 was deformed due to the high temperature of a small fire a few days ago. Now the water pressure causes the waterproof board to collapse suddenly, and the water rushes over like a wall. The bottom of bulkhead 6 was instantly filled with seawater, which became the first link of this chain reaction, and the first distress rocket was launched.

1: 20: Water directly overflows from the working corridor on the E floor and is poured into the No.4 boiler room. The front restaurant on the D floor has almost become a diving training ground, and the center of gravity of the hull has been slowly moving forward. The calm top deck was in chaos, and the passengers finally realized the seriousness of the situation and rushed to the lifeboat. The riot escalated and the crew shot down the passengers.

2: 00: Someone noticed the open porthole, but nothing could be done. Some third-class soldiers at the stern were released and locked in the third-class exit. At this time, the lifeboats are almost used up, and the first-class pets have been released for more than an hour. The death of the ship and the rest of the passengers is coming. Then the huge bow began to enter the water.

2: 05: The bow is completely submerged, and the water begins to enter the first-class area. Because some superstructures are flooded, the area that ships can enter the water has reached hundreds of square feet. The hatch cover of No.4 boiler room has been closed for more than an hour, but the seawater is still not fully filled. The workers inside are still working hard, trying to clear the stagnant water. They don't know that they are below 10 meters above sea level, and all the exits are covered by seawater.

2: 10: Strong water pressure blasted the waterproof board between No.4 and No.5 boiler rooms, and many workers were killed on the spot. The sinking speed of the hull is obviously accelerated. The final judgment is coming. The bridge was about to be flooded, and the captain locked himself in the captain's room and accepted the death trial. Thomas andrew, the chief designer, stepped into the first-class smoking room in despair, waiting to die. Ismail, the managing director of White Star Shipping Company, had already jumped on the last 1 lifeboat and fled without anyone noticing. Many crew members still stick to their jobs, a large number of passengers ran to the stern in panic, and many people were trampled to death.

2: 13: The center of gravity of the hull is completely out of balance, and it keeps going forward, while the stern keeps tilting upward, and soon it is completely out of the water. The whole bow hall was submerged in the water and then blown to pieces by the rushing water pressure. The glass dome collapsed, at the same time, the chimney cable tied to the dome broke, the tension of the chimney/kloc-0 was unbalanced, and the chimney broke, resulting in the death of many passengers struggling in the water. The bridge is also completely submerged in water.

2: 16: The whole ship has seven semi-waterproof cabins, the center of gravity moves forward obviously, and the second half is still floating on the water, which is the reason why the ship tilts like the leaning tower of Pisa. The cable that fixed the No.2 chimney finally broke because it could not bear the great pressure. The No.2 chimney collapsed and sank into the sea, many passengers were killed, and many people were sucked in when it broke. Many people slide from the stern to the water like slides. Many people were sucked into the hull and never came out. Specialized engineers have been maintaining power in the engine room, but eventually they were electrocuted and seawater immediately flooded into the central power control room, causing a short circuit. The lights of the whole ship went out in an instant, then flashed again in an instant, and finally never turned on.

2: 17, after the stern was tilted, the hull was under unimaginable pressure, and the steel bars were constantly distorted and finally unbearable.

To the limit. In a series of explosions, the middle of the No.2 chimney and No.3 chimney was cracked, and the remaining two chimneys were also blown off. The main body has become two parts, but the trunk at the bottom is still broken. The bow sank directly into the water, and the stern floated again temporarily because there was basically no water.

2: 18, according to the design concept of Titanic, the waterproof system at the stern can play a role again in this case, blocking the seawater to prevent the stern from sinking further, but the waterproof door between the two engine rooms is opened to pump water, which is beyond the ship's bearing capacity. The submerged bow keeps pulling the stern, causing the stern that has just fallen back into the water to tilt again, and the first-class smoking room is illuminated by splashing coal. The stern sank slowly when burning.

At 2 o'clock 19, the stern of the Titanic sank a little and gradually tilted. The last good news for the passengers is that the fire has been put out. The huge buoyancy causes the only trunk connecting the two bodies to be completely disconnected. The bow went straight to the bottom of the sea at a speed of 40 miles per hour, while the stern was still floating on the water.

At 2: 20, although the stern barely floated, it sank in less than 1 minute because the bottom was full of seawater until it completely sank. The huge whirlpool sucked in a large number of passengers and crew who persisted to the end. Of course, many of them had already become stiff bodies. Although many people surfaced, they failed to be rescued in time and eventually died of hypothermia. The sea soon returned to calm, and a huge ocean liner ended its short and brilliant life here. 1500 passengers who failed to board the lifeboat became their funerary objects. Of the 1500 people, it was finally confirmed that only 6 were still alive.

The stern imploded underwater, and the outer plate, deck and chimney flew out. The stern is affected by the "spiral effect", and the structure is destroyed, resulting in a pile of wreckage. /view/9329.htm I hope it will help you.