1912 The sinking of the Titanic

105 years ago, on April 14, 1912, the world's largest British liner, the Titanic, made its first voyage along the route Southampton - New York and was in the North Atlantic Ocean, more than 600 km southeast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland , collided sideways with an iceberg and sank after 2 hours and 40 minutes. Of the 2,208 passengers and crew members, 1,496 died. An hour and a half after the Titanic sank under water, the steamer Carpathia arrived at the crash site, which picked up the survivors in the boats.

The ship's captain, Edward Smith, who perished along with the Titanic, was blamed for the accident. He reacted too late to the threat of a collision with an iceberg. There is an assumption that the Titanic would not have sunk if the captain's assistant William Murdoch, also dead, had not given the command to "port aboard". Crashing directly into an iceberg, the Titanic would have received serious damage in the bow, one compartment could have been flooded, but the liner would have remained afloat.