And so the Titanic was born. Built be the Harland and Wolff shipping company, she was touted as being the safest, most luxurious ship ever created, as well as being the largest vessel of her time. Her interiors were luxurious and comparable to many of the finest hotels found in Europe. She had two elevators, a swimming pool, barber shop, gymnasium, and many more luxuries that were unheard of on a ship. She was truly a "floating palace" as many of the passengers remarked.

Using an ingenious system of sixteen watertight compartments in her hull and more lifeboats than the current law required. She was indeed a miracle to behold. Titanic was a ship that not even God himself could sink.

On April 4, 1912, with great fanfare and over 2000 people aboard, t

At around 2:00am, all of the Titanic's rockets had been fired and all the lifeboats had been lowered. Time had run out for the Titanic and there was still over fifteen hundred people aboard her.

At 11:30pm the Titanic was moving right along at 22 ½ knots. Fredrick Fleet and Lee, now on lookout in the crow's nest, stared out ahead into the darkness. Then, the horizon in front of them seemed to develop a slight haze. A few minutes later Officer Fleet could just make out a black object immediately in their path. He knew what it was.

"There is no time to waste," Ismay suddenly announced, apparently suggesting that Pittman was working too slowly. Pitman didn't recognize the managing director of the White Star Line and so he was ignored by the comment.

It was well past 1:30am. The view of the Titanic from the fourteen lifeboats that had left the ship was presented with a spectacular sight. The leviathan stood dead still in the water, her bow deep into the water and her huge propellers looming out of the water. The decks, however, were still brightly lit, and the strains of music drifted across the ocean surface.

The fact that the Titanic's stern lies 1,970 feet away from the more intact stern reveals the true story of what happened when the gigantic leviathan sank. After the stern rose out of the water, the ship apparently broke into two, between the third and fourth funnels-a weak point in the ship due to the large open spaces in the ship's hull. As the ship sank to the bottom, the three remaining funnels were swept away by the tremendous drag created. The bow glided to the bottom of the ocean at an angle, striking nose first into the floor and burying itself sixty feet into the mud. As a result, of this plates buckled and ruptured along both sides. The stern of the Titanic, which had not fully filled with water like the bow, plunged straight down, quickly gaining speed. The remaining air was forced out by the incoming water and caused major damage. The poop deck was torn open and folded back in upon itself. The stern then smashed into the ocean floor with such force that the decks came crashing down upon one another causing the sides of the hull to bulge outwards.

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