On 10th April, 1912, the Titanic commenced her maiden voyage from Southampton, Britain, to New York with 2,227 passengers and crew on board. This included many of the world’s richest and most famous people.

On the maiden voyage, the Titanic carried enough food to feed a small town for several months, for example:
998kg of coffee
34,019kg of meat
35,000 fresh eggs
36,000 apples
36,000 oranges
16,000 lemons
6,820l of milk
2,722 kg of butter
794kg of ice-cream
40.6 tonnes of potatoes
800 bundles of asparagus
1,000 bottles of wine
15,000 bottles of ale and stout

It also carried one Renault auto mobile.

On April 11, in Queenstown, Ireland the final passengers boarded. Since no dock could accommodate her, they had to be ferried to her.

The Titanic received a total of  nine ice warnings but still continued to steam full speed ahead, at 44km/hr (22 knots).
 

On April 14, at 11.40pm, the crews’ nest reported an iceberg directly in the path of the Titanic. The crew rushed to reverse the engines of the ship, hoping to avoid the ice, but due to the fast speed at which the ship had been moving they are unable to avoid it in time. Only the two side propellers were capable of being forced to reverse; the middle one does not have a reverse gear.

The Titanic grazes the side of the iceberg, puncturing holes into its lower decks. Cargo rooms 1-5 and boiler room6 flooded from iceberg damage. The bow started to sink, tilting the ship forward.

By 12.45am the first lifeboat no. 7 was lowered. Despite a capacity of 65 people and being short of lifeboats for more than half of the passengers, it was launched into the sea with only a capacity of 28. This was because many of the officers were skeptical of the amount of weight the boats could hold, as they were not told of the rigorous testing that the boats went through.
 
 

At 12.55am, no.6 left with fewer than 28 people. No.5 was lowered with 41 and no.3 with 32, all with the capability of holding 65 people. No.1 left with 12 when it could hold 40.

Even when they were on the lifeboats, many passengers were skeptical about the Titanic sinking; this was partly why many of them did not want to board the lifeboats in the first place.

The ship continues to flood, causing it to tilt further until it appears to be sinking almost vertically into the ocean. The stern is unable to take the pressure of being suspended so high up in the air and thus the whole ship breaks into two parts.

The bow continues to plunge into the ocean and slowly drags the stern down. At 2.20am on April 15, the Titanic sinks, approximately 21.7km east-southeast of the position from where her distress call was first transmitted.

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