Sinking of the Titanic

Also known as Titanic sinking, RMS Titanic sinking, Titanic disaster, sinking of RMS Titanic, sinking of Titanic

The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States, with over 2,200 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 on 14 April. She sank two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ship's time on 15 April, resulting in the deaths of up to 1,635 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

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Date: 14–15 April 1912 ; 114 years ago ( 1912-04-15 )
Time: 23:40–02:20 (02:38–05:18 GMT )
Duration: 2 hours and 40 minutes
Location: North Atlantic Ocean , 370 miles (600 km; 320 nmi) southeast of Newfoundland
Type: Maritime disaster
Cause: Collision with an iceberg on 14 April
Participants: Titanic crew and passengers
Outcome: Maritime policy changes ; SOLAS
Deaths: 1,490–1,635
Missing: 1,160

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The RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States, with over 2,200 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) on 14 April. She sank two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ship's time (05:18 GMT) on 15 April, resulting in the deaths of up to 1,635 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

Titanic's wireless operators received seven warnings of sea ice leading up to the night of 14 April, but was travelling at a speed of roughly 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled the steel plates covering her starboard side and opened six of her sixteen compartments to the sea. Titanic had been designed to stay afloat with up to four of her forward compartments flooded, and the crew used distress rockets and wireless messages to attract rescue vessels as the passengers were put into lifeboats.