For those of you who want the actual times to commemorate the sinking, follow this post:
http://awesometalks.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/what-time-did-the-rms-titanic-really-hit-the-iceberg/
I think I’m going to go with Lightoller’s version, daylight savings time and EST factored in (11:07 struck, 1:47 sank.)
BBC Radio 2 now
A radio show lasting the length of time from when she hits the iceberg to her sinking at 2:20am, 15th April 1912 a 100 years ago.
Titanic - Minute by Minute. The Band Played On.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fq7lb
(It’s less than an hour in, join in!)
The Extraordinary Story of the White Star Liner Titanic.
The great steamship sank 100 years ago, but its legendary drama, heroes and villains remain as unforgettable as ever.The most important shipping event in North Atlantic history was the creation of the International Mercantile Marine company (IMM) in 1902. This giant shipping trust was the brainchild of the Philadelphia Quaker shipping magnate Clement Acton Griscom and was made possible by the financial backing of the New York banker J. P. Morgan. Among the many U.S., Belgian, British, Dutch and German lines controlled by the IMM, certainly the most famous among the British-flag steamship lines was the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company—more commonly known as the White Star Line.
Its flagship, the Titanic, was the largest ship in the world when it took its maiden sailing from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. Weighing 46,328 tons and spanning 852.5 feet long by 92.5 feet wide, she could reach a speed of 21 knots, or about 39 kilometers per hour. The ship could accommodate 2,567 passengers, although on its maiden voyage, it was not fully booked because not every experienced—or wary—traveler cared to face the North Atlantic in April. Only about half of the cabins had been sold, to 1,316 passengers. Their fate, and that of the 892 crew members, would become a part of history.
Of all the tributes to the victims of Titanic, this must be among the strangest.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the disaster, Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter plans to recreate the sinking of the liner by projecting images onto a giant iceberg.
This is unexpectedly beautiful.
Southampton - Titanic OST
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic leaving Southampton (April 10th) and beginning her first and last voyage.
It’s been 99 years since the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11:40 pm on April 14th. Out of approx. 2,200 passengers and crew, only 706 survived in 20 lifeboats built for a maximum of 1,178 people.
My watch is set to 2:20 (approx. time of the sinking) for the rest of the day in remembrance.
(The photo is possibly the last photograph taken of Titanic as she departs Queenstown on April 11, 1912.)
P.S. : There is a chilling real time (AST) Twitter update from The Nova Scotia Museum of relayed wireless messages during the sinking. http://twitter.com/ns_museum
