It is said that on April 10, 1912, at the Ocean Pier in the Port of Southampton, the "unsinkable" Titanic set sail for New York.

The captain's name was Edard John Smith. Jorn? Smith）。

The docks were crowded with passengers, family members who had come to see them off, baggage handlers and customs inspectors. At 11 a.m., chimney No. 1 spewed white steam.

25 of the 29 boilers began to fire in turn.

At 12 o'clock at noon, the Titanic slowly left the dock under the pull of the tugboat.

Two outboard propellers began to stir up the water in the port of Southampton. The Titanic sailed past the Majestic (not the original Bismarck cruise ship), the USS Philadelphia, the USS St. Louis, the USS Ocean, and the USS New York in turn, sounding its horn in salutation.

The 46,000-ton ship seems to be attractive to other vessels.

As it was about to set sail, another regular ship, the New York, was moving through the water so large that the attraction from the massive backfilling of the current nearly hit her hull, causing an hour's delay.

The Titanic's tugboat, Vulcan, pushed the hull of the New York back on.

The world's largest mail ship began its first and final voyage.

The Titanic divided passengers into three classes. The third-class cabins are also the cheapest in the hull than the lower decks, and most of the passengers in this category are immigrants who plan to create a new life on the other side of the Atlantic; the decoration of the second-class cabins and ordinary guest rooms is actually the same level as the first-class cabins of other ordinary ships at that time, and many second-class passengers were originally positioned as first-class cabins on other ships, but because of the voyage of the Titanic, the coal energy was transferred to the Titanic.

First class was the most expensive and luxurious part of the ship, and some of the world's richest celebrities were on this journey.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the Titanic arrived at the port of Cherbourg, France.

Another group of passengers and cargo boarded the Titanic on two special ferries, the "Nomad" and the "Transport", including the American billionaire Astor and Mrs. Margaret Brown, who was later called "the unsinkable honorable Mrs. Brown" by the newspapers.

Another 20 passengers disembarked after a short journey and were lucky enough to brush shoulders with death.

At noon the next day, the Titanic arrived in Queenstown, Ireland.

A group of Irish immigrants with a vision and hope for a new world boarded the ship. A passenger disembarked here, and the photo he took became an out-of-print photo of the Titanic, which today is worth a lot in the eyes of collectors.

The last photo taken before the sinking of the Titanic.

According to Ismay's order, the Titanic sped up to 23 knots the next day. Along the way, nothing major happened to the Titanic.

Philip, the ship's telegraph operator, was busy sending expensive personal telegrams to the first-class passengers, mostly for safe and stock orders.

On Sunday night, April 14, 1912, it was a calm night with no wind at all.

If anything, the crew will spot the little scales of the waves crashing against the iceberg. The Titanic sailed at a speed of 22.3 knots (about 45 kilometers per hour) on this dark and icy ocean (maximum speed of 23 knots).

After receiving reports of the ice situation from many nearby ships, Captain Smith ordered the lookout to take a closer look.

This year, because it was a warm winter, the icebergs drifted farther south than usual.

However, the crew of the Titanic failed to find the telescope (because the only pair of binoculars on board at that time was locked in a cabinet by the second officer, and the second officer who kept the key to the cabinet did not end up on board), and the lookout had to observe it with the naked eye.

At 23:40, lookout Frederick Fleet (who later survived) noticed a dark shadow "the size of two tables" in the distance, which grew in size at a rapid rate. He rang the alarm bell on the bridge three times and grabbed the phone: "There is an iceberg right ahead!".

The sixth Moody, who answered the phone, informed the next Murdoch. Murdoch immediately ordered the bell to be ringed: "All engines slow down! Full left rudder! No. 3 propeller reverses!" After the lookout found that the iceberg hit the iceberg from the starboard side of the ship to the iceberg in just 37 seconds, and the Titanic was less than 400 meters away from the iceberg at that time.

The first mate immediately ordered the left full rudder and the whole ship's propeller to urgently reverse two commands, and later confirmed that the first order was a fatal mistake, just 37 seconds after he gave the order, the Titanic crashed towards the iceberg because the hull was too large and the rudder was too small and the forward speed was too fast to stop advancing and turning in time.

23:40: Due to the violent impact, the rivets in the bow of the ship come loose, the waterproof partition is partially cracked, and numerous small but narrow cracks appear in the first 5 bilges, and the sea water continues to pour in.

The floodgates were then closed in time, and all the bilges became 16 separate watertight compartments.

3:50: In the first 10 minutes after impact, the water level rises 14 feet from the keel, the first five locks at the bow begin to be flooded, and the No. 6 boiler room is covered by 8 feet of water. The bow of the ship had by this time 4,000 tons of seawater, but the water was blocked by a flashback, and the situation seemed to be fine, and everything seemed to be under control.

The captain called in engineers to carry out repairs on the damaged parts.

0:00: 7,000 tons of seawater poured into the bow, the water has flooded the 3 bow holds, further covering the upper deck, and the bow begins to sink slowly, the fate of which is actually doomed.

A large crew member in boiler room No. 6 is working to remove the stagnant water.

The crew reported to Captain Smith, who was in the control tower, that the water had flooded locks 1, 2, 3 and boiler rooms 6, and he immediately approached designer Thomas Andrews to assess the damage.

After some calculations, Andrews then came to the conclusion in the captain's room that "the ship is not saved" and said that the ship could only hold out for 1-2 hours.

The captain asked the telegraph operator to send a CQD distress signal at 41°46'N, 50°14'W. The boiler operation was stopped, and the smoke pipes and chimneys on the ship were vented in large quantities, making a loud noise.

0:05: The water has submerged the 32-foot-tall bow section, and the lifeboat on board can only accommodate 1,178 people, out of a total of 2,208 people on board.

0:10: The crew of the Titanic begins to use distress rockets to call for help.

The Titanic's crew of about 10 to 19 years old Californians could even see the lights on the chimney of her steam engine, and they tried to contact them but the Moss yard lights failed.

And more than one crew member then witnessed the Titanic launch a white distress rocket, but Californian Captain Rhodes didn't think it was a distress signal.

0:15: Titanic sends out a distress call signal of "CQD MGY", and then uses the latest "SOS" signal to continue calling for help.

It was later confirmed that most of the ships that received the signal were only given SOS distress signals, including the sister ship Olympic, the cargo ship SSMount Temple (49 nautical miles), the SSFrankfort (135 nautical miles), the SSBirma (70 miles), the Baltic cruise ship (243 nautical miles), The cruise ship SSVirginian (170 nautical miles) and the cruise ship RMS Pathcia (80 nautical miles) headed to the scene and prepared for rescue.

But the nearest USS Californian (SSCalifornian) was unable to receive the distress telegram in time because the telegraph operator turned off the telegraph.

Of all the ships that could receive the telegram, the closest to the Titanic was the Carpathia, which then headed towards the Titanic at maximum speed, but even then it would take at least 4 hours to reach the scene.

The crew of the Titanic began preparations for the release of the lifeboat. The band on deck A, which serves first-class passengers, continues to play for passengers near the stairs leading to the lifeboat entrance to ease the atmosphere.

0:20: The sea has submerged the 48-foot-high seafarer's room, the ship has sunk 6 meters, and the two rows of portholes on the left and right have been submerged, some of which are open, causing the water intakes to increase, and the water depth in boiler room 6 is over 4 meters, and the engineers have to abandon it, while the pumping machine is still pumping water as best it can, but this can only slightly slow down the sinking of the bow.

0:25: The captain orders that women and children be given priority to board the lifeboat.

At this time, the Carpathia was located 58 nautical miles southeast of the Titanic and was rushing to arrive.