The Sinking of the Titanic (Hour by Hour)

My Grandfather knew that the Titanic was going to sink. He kept telling everyone but they just ignored him. In the end they threw him out of the cinema.

I went to a Titanic exhibition in London. At the end, there were lists of all the passengers who died. I noticed that while the lists for the first and second class passengers were fairly short, the lists for the third class passengers and crew were much longer.

There were so many hero’s on that night and so many that showed courage and bravery. More than I can mention in this one comment, but I’d love to mention the electrical engineers who worked until they literally couldn’t to keep the lights on as long as they could for everyone. These men worked in one of the lower levels of the stern and never left at any point, they stayed, accepted death so others could have a chance. Such selflessness, true hero’s.

The saddest part was it was pitch black once the Titanic's lights went out just before she sank, and unlike in the movie the crew on the lifeboats didn't have any flashlights... so all they could do was hear was a very loud explosion around 30 seconds after the stern sank (air pockets exploded) and the cries and screams of people at sea which slowly died down as their lives ended. It haunted many of them forever.

I can only imagine the PTSD the survivors had to deal with the rest of their lives.

Milvina Dean wasn't 9 years old, she was 9 WEEKS old. She was the youngest passenger, the youngest survivor, and the last survivor to die.

To survive the Titanic only to suffer again with 2 great Wars of unspeakable tragedies. I can’t even imagine how much pain they would have carried and how much strength they possessed to speak many years later about the horrors of the sinking and the loss of family, the trauma that lives vividly in their memories and being witness to the deaths of many many innocent strangers they never even met knowing their bodies will never be recovered and laid to rest and yet their screams of distress and for help live on through them is unbelievable. I have a huge amount of sympathy and respect for them. I hope they are all finally at peace with those they lost 🕊

My great great grandmother Jessie was a survivor from the titanic on lifeboat 9. She was a second class passenger coming back from seeing her family in Scotland. Still crazy to hear some of her story passed down in my family about her experience.

Some survivor accounts equate the sound of the mass amounts of people in the water screaming to the sound of a crowd cheering at a grand sporting event (such as a professional baseball game.) Some of these accounting survivors refraining from attending such events because of the traumatic reminder.

this story will never not fascinate me. its amazing how many bad decisions were made here SMH it was a perfect storm.

Third class on the Titanic was actually considered far more comfortable and even luxurious when compared to third class accommodations on other ships. Sure, it's nothing compared to second class and first class, but the Titanic did try to make the journey nicer for third class passengers than was the "standard" of the day.

Benjamin Guggenheim : “ We’re dressed in our Best and are Prepared to go down as Gentleman “ What a Man He Was ! R.I.P To all who Died ❤️

I don't think I'll ever fully understand how we know so much about such a chaotic event that took place over 100 years ago in the middle of the ocean. Truly fascinating and awful that so many lives were lost in vain. RIP to all passengers who's journey ended in the deep that fateful night.

My great grandparents and great great grandmother had tickets for the Titanic and they traded another family for a earlier ship and that's how my family made it here to the United States. I had the luck of growing up with my great grandparents from Sweden and my grandmother Jenny Edlund told me the story when I was 14 one year before she passed away.

Milvina Dean was 2 months old at the time and died in 2009, she spent her life as a cartographer, she never remembered what happened on the Titanic and it's believed she was the youngest person on board, she and her siblings and mother made it out, her father died that night, her family were 3rd class passengers also so the fact she made it out was a very lucky occurrence, may all those who died that night and of course milvina herself rest in peace ❤

I have to say, there are quite a few things in this video that are inaccurate. Such as the last survivor to die. If she was 97 in 2009, that means she wasn’t even a year old in 1912, not 9. And it wasn’t captain smith who told the Californian to shut up, it was Jack Phillips, the radio operator.

Random guy : “Not even god can sink this ship!” God : “And I took that personally.”

“Cowardly men jumped on the life boats” I don’t blame them. Imagine dying cuz someone wanted their job to be easier

One thing that people should keep in mind is that nautical lifeboat regulations were just out of date at that point. Every ship basically had enough lifeboats for about half of the passengers. It wasn't like they were just being arrogant because they didn't think the ship could sink. This tragedy was actually pretty instrumental in getting the regulations updated.

The grilles or gates separating the classes were not everywhere and they where about waist high, so that people merely jumped over when it was sinking.