This page is dedicated to those that died on the cold, starry night in April 1912.
At 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic stuck an iceberg and began to sink.
By 8:50 A.M. on April 15 it was all over. The Titanic was lost on its maiden voyage, and the last of 705 survivors had been pulled out of the freezing sea. In the nine hours in between, 2,207 people faced together the supreme crisis in thier lives.
Can you just imagine what these people felt? Imagine sitting in the Smoking Room hearing that faint grinding jar, walking restlessly about the decks puzzled because the engines have stopped- Only to find out that later you will stand on these same decks watching the life boats pull away one by one in the dark. Finally, as the lights glow red, hearing the band play "Autumn" and find it hard to belive this could happen to you. Or better yet, imagine being on the Carpathia, racing to the scene of disaster through dangerous ice floes; or stand off on the Californian, ten miles away, waiting and wondering as the Titanic goes under. *A Night to Remember by Walter Lord in November 1955, 1975*
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