Wednesday, April 10th[]
7:30 A.M. Captain Smith embarks.
8:00 A.M. Crew embarks.
8:30 A.M.-9.00 A.M. Very short lifeboat drill. Deck crew musters on the boat deck for a Board of Trade inspection. Two lifeboats (13 and 15) are manned and lowered on the starboard side, each with an officer, a quartermaster, and 6 Able Seamen. Fifth Officer Lowe is put in charge of one, and Sixth Officer Moody is in charge of the other.
9:30 A.M.-10 A.M. Second- and third class passengers embark.
11:30 A.M. First class passengers embark.
Shortly after noon. The Titanic departs Southampton's berth 44 when the much smaller SS New York almost collides with the Titanic. Titanic's maiden voyage is delayed for an hour less than five minutes after it started.
1 P.M. Titanic resumes her maiden voyage. She sails to the river Solent, then to the Nab light vessel to drop off the pilot. Finally, Titanic is on her way to Cherbourg.
4 P.M. In Cherbourg, the passengers arrive at the pier, where the delay is announced.
6:35 P.M. Arrival at Cherbourg. Average speed: 20.2 knots. Sun goes down 15 minutes after.
8:10 P.M. Departure from Cherbourg, sailing down the English Channel heading towards the South coast of Ireland.
Thursday, April 11th[]
Captain Smith tests steerability.
11:30 A.M. Arrival in Queenstown (Cobb), South of Ireland. Average speed from Cherbourg: 20.7 knots.
1:30 P.M. The ship departs Queenstown.
1:55 P.M. Titanic takes departure off Daunt’s Rock light vessel located at 51° 43’N, 8° 16’W outside Queenstown harbour. ‘All ahead full’ is ordered, and the ship works up to 20.7 knots, with twenty out of twenty-four double-ended boilers connected up. Her heading is about S45°W True to make a point south of the Old Head of Kinsale.
Friday, April 12th[]
The weather is clear, the sea's calm.
approx. 8:00 A.M. Ship running at 21.2 knots. Additional boiler lighted in boiler room 2.
12 P.M. The officers collect on the bridge to calculate position using sextants.
5:46 P.M. Wireless message from La Touraine to Titanic:
| ‘To Capt. Titanic. My position 7p.m. GMT lat. 49.28 long. 26.28 W . dense fog since this night crossed thick ice-field lat. 44.58 long. 50.40 “Paris” saw another ice-field and two icebergs lat. 45.20 long. 45.09 Paris saw a derelict lat. 40.56 long. 68.38 Paris please give me your position best regards and bon voyage. Caussin’ |
6:21 P.M. Titanic sends a wireless answer to La Touraine:
| ‘To Capt. La Touraine, Thanks for your message and information my position. 7p.m. GMT Lat. 49.45; long. 23.38. W . Greenwich; had fine weather; compliments. – Smith’ |
approx. 7:00 P.M. Additional boiler connected up in boiler room 2. Ship now running with 20-one double-ended boilers on line.
Saturday, April 13th[]
12 P.M. The officers collect on the bridge to calculate position using sextants.
1:30 P.M. As Titanic approaches the mid-Atlantic, Bruce Ismay seems determined to "beat the Olympic and get in New York on Tuesday".
10:30 P.M. The Rappahannock suffered damage in a massive ice field. It sends out a warning to all ships.
11 P.M. Titanic's wireless transmitter starts to give trouble as a short develops in the secondary winding of a transformer. Bride is called out of bed to help Phillips troubleshoot and repair the set. The wireless system cannot send or receive messages in the meantime, and they start piling up.
Sunday, April 14th[]
5 A.M. The wireless system's finally working again. Private messages have been piling up and desperately need to be sent.
8:00 A.M. Three remaining double-ended boilers lit up in Boiler Room 2.
9:12 A.M. Cunard liner Caronia sends a message to Titanic:
| ‘Captain, Titanic. West-bound steamers report bergs, growlers, and field ice in 42° N., from 49 to 51 W . April 12. Compliments. Barr.’ |
The message is brought to the bridge.
10:28 A.M. Titanic replies to Caronia:
| ‘Thanks for message and information. Have had variable weather throughout – Smith.’ |
10:30 A.M. Weekly Church service in First Class Dining Room conducted by Captain Smith.
11 A.M. An ice warning from the Leyland Line cargo steamer SS Californian is intercepted.
11:47 A.M. Dutch liner Noordam sends to Titanic:
| ‘Captain SS Titanic. Congratulations on new command. Had moderate westerly winds, fair weather, no fog. Much ice reported in lat. 42° 24’ to 42° 45’ [N] and long. 49° 50’ to 50° 20’ [W]. Compliments. Krol.’ |
The ice is in much the same position as noted by Caronia.
12:32 P.M. Caronia hears Titanic reply to Noordam:
| ‘Captain Noordam. Many thanks. Had moderate variable weather throughout. Compliments. Smith.’ |
Caronia passes the message to Noordam who didn't receive it.
12:45 A.M. Smith shows the Caronia ice message to Second Officer Lightoller.
1:49 P.M. Amerika sends to Titanic:
| ‘To the steamer Titanic M.S.G. via Cape Race to the Hydrographic Office, Washington. D S Amerika passed two large icebergs 41 deg. 27 min. N., 50 deg. 8 min. W ., on the 14th April.- Knuth.’ |
The bergs are in the same area as the Noordam and the Caronia. The message never reaches the bridge.
1:54 P.M. White Star Liner Baltic sends a message to Titanic:
| ‘Captain Smith, Titanic. Have had moderate variable winds and clear fine weather since leaving. Greek steamer Athenai reports passing icebergs and large quantities of field ice today in lat. 41º 51’ N., long. 49º 52 ‘W . Last night we spoke German oil-tank steamer Deutschland, Stettin (sic) to Philadelphia, not under control, short of coal, lat. 40° 42’ N. long. 55° 11’ W . Wishes to be reported to New York and other steamers. Wish you and Titanic all success. - Commander.” |
Bride passes the message to Captain Smith. Smith later hands it over to Bruce Ismay, who puts it in his pocket to brag about it. Later, Smith will ask it back.
2:57 P.M. Titanic replies to Baltic:
| ‘Thanks for your message and good wishes; had fine weather since leaving. - Smith.’ |
5:50 P.M. Titanic reaches the “corner”, a navigational reference point at 42 degrees N, 47 degrees, where Capt. Smith delays the turn to New York, probably due to earlier ice warnings, and makes the corner 50 minutes later and 16 miles farther southwest.
7 P.M. The double-ended boilers that were lit in the morning in Boiler Room 2 are now put on line. Temperature 43°F and dropping.
7:12 P.M. Carpathia exchanges Time Rushes with Titanic and receives one passenger message from Titanic.
7:15 P.M. Murdoch orders lamp trimmer Samuel Hemming: "Hemming, when you go forward see the forescuttle hatch closed, as we are in the vicinity of ice, and there is a glow coming from that, and I want everything dark before the bridge." Murdoch wants Hemming to close #2 hatch on the Forward Well Deck, which's light is blocking the lookout's view.
7:22 P.M. Titanic and Californian exchange contact information. From the PV of the Californian: ‘5.20p.m. New York time, exchanged TRs M.G.Y. nil.’
7:30 P.M. Californian sends another ice warning, area 42°3'N 49°9'W. Bride sends the message to Lightoller on the bridge. Temperature 39°F and dropping.
7:32 P.M. Signal exchanged between Carpathia and Titanic.
7:37 P.M. Titanic hears Californian call Antillian:
| ‘To Captain “Antillian”, 6.30p.m. Apparent Time, Ship; lat. 42º 3’ N., long. 49º 9’ W . Three large bergs five miles to southward of us. Regards. Lord’ |
8:55 P.M. Captain Smith leaves a dinner party to join Lightoller on the bridge. They talk about weather and seeing conditions.
9 P.M. Temperature 34°F and dropping.
9:25 P.M. Captain Smith says to Lightoller: "If it becomes at all doubtful let me know at once; I will be just inside." Capt. Smith leaves the bridge to go inside to his quarters to retire for the night.
9:30 P.M. Lightoller orders quartermaster Hichens to warn carpenter Hutchinson and engine crew to watch the fresh water tanks which might freeze. He also orders Moody to warn the lookouts to watch for ice, particularly small ice and growlers.
9:32 P.M. Titanic forwards the Amerika ice warning to Cape Race.
9:52 P.M. The Mesaba sends an ice warning to Titanic and all east-bound ships:
| ‘Ice report in latitude 42 N. to 41° 25’ N., longitude 49 W . to longitude 50° 30’ W . Saw much heavy pack ice, and great number large icebergs. Also field ice. Weather good, clear.’ |
Phillips is still drowning in the private messages and can't send it to the bridge.
10:00 P.M. Titanic is approaching a field of ice and bergs several miles wide. Lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee begin their two-hour shift. Temperature 32°F and still dropping. First Officer Murdoch takes watch from Lightoller.
10:30 P.M. Temperature 30°F and stable.
11:07 PM. The Californian sends another ice warning to the Titanic:
| ‘MGY this is MWL. We are stopped and surrounded by ice. |
Phillips, still overworked by the piled up private messages, blocks it off, sending:
| DDD |
DDD means: "Keep out!"
11:35 P.M. The Californian’s wireless room is shut down by the operator. Now the ship can't communicate with other ships, not even with those in danger.
11:39 P.M. The lookouts spot an iceberg, less than half a mile away.
11.40 P.M. Titanic scrapes an iceberg and starts to take on water.
Monday, April 15th[]
- Main article: Timeline of the sinking
12:00 A.M. Thomas Andrews makes his report to Captain Smith shortly after midnight. “Titanic will founder."
12:05 A.M. Captain Smith orders to prepare the lifeboats.
12:15 A.M. Captain orders Philips to sent distress signals. The first distress signal is sent.
12:17 A.M. Carpathia picks up the CQD from Titanic and proceeds to steam towards her.
12:25 A.M. The first lifeboat is lowered.
12:45 A.M. Quartermaster Rowe launches his first distress rocket.
1:58 A.M. The last two Collapsibles are being prepared. It is a struggle as they have to be taken down from the officer's quarter roofs.
2:05 A.M. The water reaches the Boat Deck.
2:07 A.M. The last two lifeboats float of the ship as Titanic's bridge takes a dive.
2:10 A.M. The first funnel falls.
2:12 A.M. Pater Byles gives the last absolutions to more than a hundred passengers on the aft decks.
2:15 A.M. The water is at the second funnel, Titanic's propellors are out of the water and the sterns starts to rise up.
2:18 A.M. The ship is at angle of 45-70 degrees. Various furniture, plates and loose objects crash through the ship, some towards the bow. Then suddenly her lights go out. Shortly after that, it breaks. The stern falls back level.
2:19 A.M. The stern is still attached to the front section by the keel, the forward section sinks and pulls the stern back up to an angle of 90 degrees. Titanic remains motionless for a few seconds.
2:20 A.M. Titanic's stern descends, Titanic sinks.
3:30 A.M. The Carpathia fires a rocket.
4:00 A.M. Carpathia arrives at the coordinates that Philips sent through the wireless.
4:10 A.M. The survivors of Lifeboat 2 are the first to be picked up by the Carpathia.
5:30 A.M. The Frankfort confirms to Evans that the Titanic is lost. Finally, the Californian steams to the disaster zone.
8:30 A.M. The survivors of Lifeboat 12 are the last to be picked up by the Carpathia. Lightoller is the very final to come on board. The Californian passes the Carpathia and then searches the disaster site for survivors one last time.
8:50 A.M. The Carpathia heads for New York with all survivors of the disaster. Ismay sends a wireless to the White Star office in New York that the Titanic is gone.