The Sinking of the Titanic (Hour by Hour)

The unsinkable Titanic was taken down by an iceberg, but the real tragedy was all the lives lost because of countless errors and oversights. Check out a new perspective on the Titanic's ultimate demise in today's epic new video.

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[hollysimpkins]

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.

[samrindge]

Correction at 21:19, Millvina Dean was born on February 2, 1912. She was 2 months old, not 9 years old. She was the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic.

[thegamingpigeon]

The John Jacob Astor you showed was *NOT* the John Jacob Astor aboard the Titanic; it was his great grandson, John Jacob Astor IV. The minimal research would show you the Astor you're referring to died in 1848, over 60 years before the Titanic's sinking.

[TheoRhoades]

The sheer magnitude of so many emotions conflicting with one another is INSANE. Bless those who perished

[Itriedtakennames]

“Women and children first.” This was partly a reaction to at least 2 prior wrecks (the Artic and Atlantic or Pacific, forget which) where despite being passenger ships full of women and kids…..not a single woman or child survived, while many men did. In the first, the crew and a few gangs of men took the lifeboats and rowed off immediately, often not full, while in the second, off the coast of Canada, the ship was close enough to shore some men could swim to rocks through the cold water (if lucky and fast), but too rough for life boats, leaving women in big dresses and kids doomed. The fact that not one of the 300 -plus women or kids in each survived was considered pretty shameful, and changes were made. Just mentioning as it is not like women and kids always had it great.

[paytonmanning]

The mom that stayed behind with her teenaged sons, only to survive them anyways is cruel.

[jamesphillips]

Imagine being super rich and in first class on the titanic and you could of lived if you brought an inflatable pool toy for 25cents, before the ship left.

[inspire]

“The worst part about betrayal is it doesn’t come from enemies, it comes from those who you trust the most”

-XXXTentacion

[uhhhh]

"Is it sinkable?"
"even the great poseidon couldn't sink it!"

The iceberg: *baby don't hurt me*

[ImperiumOfLuther]

I reckon a lot of lives would’ve been saved if it wasnt for the shortage of life boats. The fact that ship stayed a float for over 2 hours shows how well built that ship was, especially when considering the damage it undertook!

[cheryl]

Thomas Andrews... I've learned recently that Thomas Andrews was not hanging out in the lounges admiring his work, as popularly believed in the movies and shows. It's now widely believed that he was seen with the Captain. He knew every inch of that ship and was a caring soul. He helped people until there was nothing else he could do. He was thought to have jumped out either with, or before the captain. Something along those lines, as you've stated.

[ThirdPlays]

“Aye Lee, do you see anything?”

“Too dark to see much of anything Fleet”

“True that Lee”

Literally 2 minutes later

*Fleet and Lee see the iceberg*

“Shoot shoot shoot!”

*Lee rings the bell while Fleet calls*

“IS ANYONE THERE?”

“Yes, what do you see?”

“Iceberg! Right Ahead!”

*Murdoch runs to his men*

“ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD! HARD A STARBOARD”

What I like to imagine happened in the crows nest and bridge that night

[joecasey]

I've set it so that I get a notification for every video posted on this chanel and I love it. Never fails to let me down!!

[EyeHeartSUSHI]

you should do one on the submersible that imploded

[FortisKnight]

Speeding while in a part of the ocean with an iceberg warning was more common in that time period than one would believe. The thinking of ocean liner high brass was to get through the ice field as quickly as possible.

[juandavidbedoya]

I have to say, I was disappointed to see Andrews credited as the ships designer here. I believe he merely took over management of the project that was largely completed from the gentleman truly responsible, Alexander Carlisle.

[OnetoughHufflepuff]

Fang Lang survived the sinking. He was one of eight Chinese passengers on board and one of six to survive. He was pulled out of the water and into life boat 14. (If I'm mistaken someone please correct me!) Sadly him and the other Chinese survivors weren't allowed into America because of the Chinese exclusion act that was active during that time.

[KnightItshorts]

imagine being turned around from one of the most amazing boats at its time due to an eye disease just to have avoided highly possible death

[susannabrand]

21:55 Why does Harold Lowe, Have a German Luger on a British Ship? They used revolvers in the British Empire until the Cold War I believe. I wonder where you got the Titanic info from.

[CDRhammond]

There was a coal bunker fire a few days before titanic set off this area was exactly where the iceberg would hit unfortunately resulting in the kind of damage that led to the sinking as the metal hull had been weakened by the intense heat of that fire. Also, there were no locked gates closing off 3rd class from 2nd and 1st as the movie titanic portrays. There were waist high gates that could be lifted up and opened however and these are what separated the classes. As said these gates were as easy to remove as a baby gate is today. This is proven by witness testimony during the inquiries as well as trips to the wreck after her discovery by an expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Lois Michel in 1985.

One of the big reasons the death toll was high for 3rd class is because they were not given information they needed to get to the boats as those were located in 2nd and 1st class areas of the ship locations up until that night none of them had ever been too. They basically waited up in the 3rd class deck area wondering what to do next.

Murdoch is directly responsible for saving most of the people on the Titanic as well this most likely also includes Bruce Ismay as well as it was Murdoch who did allow and even order some men into the boats he launched (this includes several men he fired warning shots on with his revolver) when there were no women and children left. Lighttoller on the other hand over on the port side of the ship is responsible for many casualties as he stuck to the only women and children rule and allowed no men to board any boat even when there was plenty of space for more passengers.

It's very unfortunate that somehow a rumor was spread that men were being loaded on the port side of the ship and women and children on the starboard side which ultimately sent many men to their graves due to Lightoller's stupidity in handling things. He might have made up for his actions on Titanic with Dunkirk with the lives he saved there.