Titanic: The Final 2 Hours and 40 Minutes

Just before midnight on 14 April 1912, the largest ship afloat struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. This is the story of the two hours and forty minutes that followed: the ignored warnings, the half-empty lifeboats, the ship that saw the rockets, the rescue, and how the disaster changed safety at sea. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 0:59 The largest ship afloat 2:15 The warnings 3:30 Twenty to midnight 4:22 Into the lifeboats 5:56 The final minutes 7:06 Rescue 8:04 What changed 8:41 The wreck SOURCES Wikipedia: Sinking of the Titanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking... Wikipedia: Titanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic Britannica: Titanic: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic History.com: How long did it take the Titanic to sink?: https://www.history.com/articles/how-... British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry: numbers saved: https://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq... Wikipedia: RMS Carpathia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Car... Wikipedia: Titanic Lifeboat No. 14: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic... Wikipedia: Wreck of the Titanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_o... Wikipedia: Changes in safety practices after the sinking of the Titanic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes... IMAGE CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons) Titanic iceberg.jpg by The chief steward of the liner Prinz Adalbert, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Photograph of a Lifeboat Carrying Titanic Survivors - NARA - 278337.jpg by Louis Ogden, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... TitanicRoute.svg by Image originale: en:User:Gary Joseph, en:User:Mech, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Californian.jpg by Louis Ogden, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Color postcard of R. M. S Carpathia, ca. 1912.jpg by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Olympic and Titanic.jpg by Unknown, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... RMS Titanic Ad April 10, 1912.jpg by Unknown, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... RMS Titanic 3.jpg by Francis Godolphin Osbourne Stuart, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Letter from Katherine Hurd to her mother, April 18, 1912.jpg by Hurd, Katherine, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Great Promenade Deck of the Olympic LCCN96503948.tiff by Underwood & Underwood, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Portret van Edward Henry Stanley Lord Derby (titel op object), RP-F-2001-7-237-2 by Rijksmuseum, CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Titanic lifeboat.jpg by Louis Ogden, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Stöwer Titanic.jpg by Willy Stöwer, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Survivors of TITANIC on CARPATHIA.png by Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Titanic wreck bow.jpg by Courtesy of NOAA/Institute for Exploration/Univers, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Some details of this history are debated by historians; where accounts differ, the video says so. Spotted an error? Leave a comment with a source.