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Smith perished when the Titanic sank. Flashing intertitle reads: [ C-Q-D Help! Help! We are sinking! ] CQD (transmitted in Morse code) was one of the first distress signals adopted for Marconi radio use, only just being replaced by SOS in 1912. Intertitle: [ The Graveyard of the Sea - Icebergs and Icefloes near the scene of the disaster.]
RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
Newly released footage of the Titanic wreckage from nearly 40 years ago has provided a rare look at the ship in its best condition since sinking in 1912.
The story of the Titanic fascinates people to this day for many reasons, Ballard said. It was at the time the world's largest ocean liner and was supposed to be virtually unsinkable.
The sinking was caused by a collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic some 700 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Over 1500 passengers and crew died, with some 710 survivors in Titanic ' s lifeboats rescued by RMS Carpathia a few hours later. There was initially some confusion in both the United States and the UK over the extent ...
"It's really quite surreal," the Titanic director James Cameron said of the tragedy. James Cameron Says He's Struck by Similarities Between the Titanic Sinking and the Tourist Submersible Skip to ...
Titanic: The Complete Story is a 1994 American two-part documentary chronicling the story of the ocean liner RMS Titanic which sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. It is a compilation of a four-hour documentary special produced by A&E Television Networks in 1994.
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