Just gone done listening to
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so seems like a good time to say I will once again be live tweeting the sinking tomorrow. Warm up tweets start at 10PM BST (GMT/UTC +1), minute by minute tweets start at 11:30. Hope to see some of you again!
12:51AM: Passenger Ida Straus refuses to board Boat
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telling husband Isidor (co-owner of Macy's department store) “We have been together for many years, and where you go, I go.” They will both perish in the sinking.
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Thank you SO much to all that followed and joined me in remembering those who lost their lives and those who carried that tragedy with them for the rest of theirs. May they all rest in peace. x
Once again...I’ll be live-tweeting the sinking of the Titanic minute by minute TONIGHT to mark
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! Warm up tweets start at 10PM BST (GMT/UTC+1), minute by minute tweets start at 11:30PM. Hope to see some of you here again!
10:08PM: Titanic is travelling at approx 22.5 knots. Contrary to popular belief, not her full speed but faster than she has travelled thus far.
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11:40PM: The Titanic collides with the iceberg. A terrible grinding sound can be heard. Officer Murdoch closes the watertight doors.
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Thank you so much to all that followed and joined me in remembering those who lost their lives and those who carried that tragedy with them for the rest of theirs. May they all rest in peace. x
1:33AM: Edith Russell enters Boat
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with her toy musical pig. A passenger would later sensationally claim that a woman had an actual pig with her. 🫠
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12:52AM: Titanic's sister ship Olympic hears Titanic's distress call. They are unsure if it is Titanic that has hit an iceberg or if it is someone else due to interference.
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11:46PM: Titanic's engines are stopped for the last time. Bruce Ismay comes to bridge asking what happened and is told they have struck ice.
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12:34AM: The lowering of the lifeboats will be difficult & perilous. Officers must consider weight, steady lowering and the long drop below.
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2:02AM: The band can still be heard playing, their melodies, somewhat more sombre now. Maybe Nearer My God To Thee? Maybe Song 'Songe d'automne', maybe something else.
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2.21AM: Gradually, the eerie silence Titanic leaves in her wake is punctured by the growing cries and screams of those in the freezing water. For some it's the end, for others it's only the beginning.
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12:23AM: Having inspected the damage, Thomas Andrews tells Captain Smith the ship cannot be saved and will likely survive only another hour or hour and a half.
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2:10AM: List is making it impossible to get boat Collapsible A set up for lowering. No 1 davit can be seen set up on the wreck of Titanic, still waiting for Collapsible A.
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Once again...I’ll be live-tweeting the sinking of the Titanic minute by minute TONIGHT from 11:30PM BST (GMT/UTC +1) to mark
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Hope to see some of you there again!
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1:17AM: Lookout George Symons in Boat
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notices water has reached up to the second row of port holes under Titanic's name at the bow.
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2:07AM: In order to load the last two boats, crew and passengers must fight the ship's growing list and push the remaining collapsibles off of the roof of the officer's quarters where they are stored.
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I work hard each year to keep this as accurate as I can so Thank you SO much to all that followed and joined me in remembering those who lost their lives and those who carried that tragedy with them for the rest of theirs. May they all rest in peace. x
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11:45PM: Ice can be seen on the forward Well deck. Seeing no obvious cause for alarm, Second Officer Lightoller returns to his cabin. Some passengers kick the ice around, laughing amongst themselves.
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1:57AM: Captain Smith comes into the wireless cabin and tells Phillips and Bride “You can do nothing more; look out for yourselves.”
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12:27AM: The first distress call is transmitted by Jack Phillips. It's hard for him to hear any responses due to the noise of the steam from the boilers.
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12:41AM: A frustrated Officer Lowe (now WIDE awake) tells Ismay, “If you will get the Hell out of that then I shall be able to do something!
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11:40PM: The Titanic collides with the iceberg. A terrible grinding sound can be heard. Officer Murdoch closes the watertight doors.
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1:53AM: Officer Lightoller peers down stairwell abaft the bridge & sees water has reached B deck and is climbing to A deck. Time is running out.
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2:11AM: Contrary to popular belief, Chief Designer Thomas Andrews is not last seen in the smoking room in a state of melancholy. Now, he's seen tossing deck chairs overboard as makeshift flotation devices to save others.
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11:21PM: By the end of the year, Dorothy Gibson will have starred in the first movie about the Titanic disaster, 'Saved from the Titanic'.
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Thank you to all who took the time to read my tweets and remember the tragedy that occurred 109 years ago today. RIP to all those who lost their lives. You are remembered. x
"There was peace and the world had an even tenor to it's way. Nothing was revealed in the morning the trend of which was not known the night before. It seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event that not only made the world rub it's eyes and awake but woke it
10:50PM: 17 year old John 'Jack' Thayer is taking a stroll out on deck. He would later say:
“It was the kind of a night that made one feel glad to be alive.”
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10:41PM: Steward Andrew Latimer responds, “We are making faster speed than we were yesterday.” Little do they realise, in just an hour's time their journey will be stopped short.
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Thank you to all who followed along. Every year I do this and it always strikes me just how quickly the events unfolded. In that short time, Titanic was gone and so many people's lives were lost or destroyed. This is my silly way of not forgetting them. ♥️
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2.18AM: Titanic begins to break apart just behind her third funnel. The stern settles back to an almost even keel. Before swinging back up “clear out of the water” as people cling on for their lives.
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2.17AM: Titanic's lights go out. Those left on board are left in darkness, shouting and screaming over the groaning sounds of the dying ship.
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11:38PM: As lookouts Fleet & Lee gaze out to the horizon, an unsettling shape is beginning to emerge from the haze and it's right in Titanic's path.
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12:44AM: Murdoch's last words to him would linger in the air as the boat is lowered. Until Murdoch said that, Officer Pitman had not known the ship was actually sinking.
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12:06AM: First class passenger Margaret "unsinkable Molly" (although no one really called her 'Molly') Brown is told to get a lifebelt on and makes her way to the Promenade Deck.
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10:51PM: 17 year old John 'Jack' Thayer is taking a stroll out on deck. He would later say, “It was the kind of a night that made one feel glad to be alive.”
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12:43AM: Boat 5 is launched on Starboard side with Third Officer Pitman in charge. As they leave, First Officer Murdoch tells his colleague, “Good bye, Good luck.”
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12:39PM: More and more passengers are becoming aware of the activity on deck. Everyone, passengers and crew alike, are gossiping. Rumours are circulating faster now.
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12.57AM: Harold Bride suggests that Phillips should use the relatively new SOS distress call, joking it may be his last chance to use it. Sadly, for Jack, it will be.
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1:09AM: Rumours are circulating that Carpathia will be coming to Titanic's aid and will reach her in about an hour. Carpathia IS coming as fast as she can. But she won't reach Titanic until dawn.
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12:58AM: Titanic calls 'SOS.' Contrary to popular belief, it's not the first time this call has been used but it is still relatively new and unusual.
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12:38AM: Phillips and his assistant Bride are working hard. Again Titanic calls: “REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. SINKING. CAN HEAR NOTHING FOR NOISE OF STEAM.'
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2.19AM: For a few moments, Titanic's stern hangs in the air as if fighting off the inevitable. Not completely vertical but it must have felt like it if you were clinging for your life.
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12:21AM: It is becoming obvious some lifeboats are lacking lamps. On this moonless night, it will be close to impossible to see without them. There's a scramble to find some and get them into the boats.
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1:39AM: It has now been two hours since the collision with the iceberg. Titanic has lasted longer than expected but her time is running out. #
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1:24AM: 24 year old Officer Moody tells Officer Lowe to get into Boat
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. Moody says he'll get another boat later. Sadly, that never happened.
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with a start keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since with less and less peace, satisfaction and happiness...To my mind the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912."
-Jack B. Thayer, Titanic Survivor"
2:11AM: Contrary to popular belief, Chief Designer Thomas Andrews is NOT last seen in the smoking room in a state of melancholy. At 2.11AM he was seen tossing deck chairs overboard as makeshift flotation devices to save others.
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12:25AM: Captain Smith urgently makes his way to the Marconi Room and tells Phillips and Bride to send out the distress call, CQD.
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12:49AM: Harold Bride finds Captain Smith in the wheelhouse and tells him the ship Carpathia is coming to their aid. Smith follows him back to the Marconi Room.
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12:51AM: Passenger Ida Straus refuses to board Boat
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telling her husband Isidor (co-owner of Macy's department store) “We have been together for many years, and where you go, I go.” They will both perish in the sinking.
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12:54AM: Officers on Starboard side are having great difficulty in finding enough people to get into the boats. Do you lower them half empty or wait and risk not being able to lower all the boats in time? Tough decisions and not a lot of time to make them.
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2.12AM: Despite Phillips & Bride having been discharged from their duties, Virginian thinks she hears Titanic calling very faintly “power greatly reduced”
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