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Murdoch launches his third life boat, boat number 3.
Pre-Titanic loss, Olympic-class boatdeck.
Boat number 12 of Titanic, in morning of the 15 april 1912 Français : Canot n°12 du Titanic, le matin du 15 avril 1912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Boat 1 of Titanic on Carpathia Français : Le canot n°1 du Titanic atteint le Carparthia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
First Officer Murdoch (in charge of launching life boats on the starboard side) launches his second life boat, number 5, from the starboard side. Second Officer Lightoller (in charge of launching boats on the port side) launches the first life boat from the port (left) side, number 6.
Captain Smith will spend the rest of the night walking from the boat deck to the engine room and back. He will depend on his two most senior officers onboard, Chief Officer Wilde (in charge of the evacuation on the boat deck) and Chief Engineer Bell (in charge of the efforts in the engine room to keep Titanic afloat). Captain Smith will use the crew companion ways as much as possible to avoid passengers (they will slow him down in his work to keep Titanic afloat). Captain Smith will also check in the radio shack for news from rescue ships when he reaches the boat deck.
At each instance when Captain Smith is near passengers he appears calm but firm, telling passengers they need to get into the life boats.
Captain Edward Smith statue - geograph.org.uk - 1639912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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First Officer Murdoch launches the first life boat, life boat number 7 from the starboard (right) side. The first distress rocket is fired. The rockets are spotted by the SS Californian, but misunderstood.
The next day, at top speed through the icefield in daylight, it will take SS Californian 2 hours to get to the wreck site. Titanic now has 1 hour and 45 minutes left, almost all of those who go into the water will die of hypothermia within 15 minutes. The people in the water will literally freeze to death.
zdjęcie przedstawia statek SS Californian. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Titanic's rockets were fired one at a time, but this is what they would have looked like. U.S. Army Capt. Andrew Fleagle, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment fire support officer, observes illumination rounds fired during Operation Tora Arwa V in the Kandahar province Aug. 2. The illumination rounds were fired from M777 Howitzers and are used to help illuminate a certain area the Soldiers need to see. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Since striking the iceberg the engineers and their men have worked diligently to keep up with the incoming water. Now they can do no more than slow Titanic’s sinking, Titanic will sink.
With this new and dreaded information, Captain Smith orders the lifeboats to be loaded and lowered away, women and children first.
Titanic begins sending distress signals with the corrected position 41 degrees 46 minutes North, 50 degrees 17 minutes West.
Carpathia hears the Titanic distress call.
Titanic Memorial -- Washington (DC) April 2012 (Photo credit: Ron Cogswell)
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