... time, later described it as, "A slight jar, a gradual jar; I did not think it was anything at all." Frederick Fleet said it was, "Just a slight grinding noise."" To first class passenger George Harder, it was, "a sort of rumbling, scraping noise." Second class passenger Lawrence Beesley later wrote, "There came what seemed to me, nothing more than an extra heave of the engines ... - (Ballard, 24). At 12:45 a.m., lifeboat seven (7) launched from the starboard side with twenty-seven people onboard, though it held the capacity of sixty-five people. Officer Boxhall ordered Quartermaster Geor...

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... now that the sun had set. An hour later the temperature was almost freezing yet the weather was clear and the sea was unusually calm. Meanwhile, lookouts Archie Jewell and George Symons stared out into the darkness from their high perch. It was a starry, moonless night. Had there been a moon to reflect upon the sea's surface, it might have been possible ... the ship was no longer needed steering, realized that the Titanic was doomed. Suddenly, the wheel house telephone rang and Boxhall answering it, was greeted by the voice of Quatermaster George Rowe who had been keeping watch on the a...

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... ). Benjamin Guggenheim was another wealthy person on board. His family made the money from mining and smelting business but he preferred the life of playboy and traveling with his mistress. George Widener was with his wife and son, he was heir to a large fortune. His father, P.A.B. Widener, was a director of the International Mercantile Marine Company, which was the parent company of ... 22.5 knots. The ice fields were about 250 3 miles straight ahead of the Titanic. Around 9:00 p.m., Smith excused himself from dinner and went to the bridge where Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller...

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