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The R.M.S.Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean
04/15/1912 New York City.

Today, the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean launching from Southampton, England. The R.M.S. (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic was a Olympic-class ship which was designed and built by the White Star Line deeply financial aided by J.P. Morgan. The Titanic was constructed with the most advanced technology available at that time. In fact, it launched with the reputation of being “unsinkable”. Such steamship had the capacity of 3,547 passengers. The expected voyage pretended to be launching at Southampton, England toward New York City, United States. The R.M.S. Titanic began her maiden voyage on Wednesday, 10 April of 1912. Captain Smith received warnings that an enormous iceberg was located in Titanic’s course. Therefore, the Captain changed the course turning a little bit to the southern direction. Even more, that Sunday at 1:45 pm many messages warned that other icebergs were laid in changed Titanic’s path, however the process of sending those messages failed. At 11:40 pm the lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee watched a big iceberg right ahead and directly informed about the huge piece of ice to the First Officer Murdock, and rapidly he ordered to dodge it. Immediately the first lifeboats began to launch, it was 12:40 am. One of the most important reasons why so many people died in the catastrophe was the Titanic had at its disposal 20 lifeboats with a total capacity for 1,178 passengers, even though the amount of the people on the main ship was 3,457. Yet with such amount of lifeboats, the Titanic met the regulation of the British government. The crush couldn’t be avoided and the iceberg hit the ship’s starboard in the right side. By 2:05 am the entire bow was under water and all the passengers, as fast as they were able, tried to reach the boat deck. And by 2:10 am all the deck was totally reached by the water. The estimated amount of people who had died in the incident was 1,517 passengers, being the worst maritime disasters in the world peacetimes. The majority of the deaths were from hypothermia, people trying to keep awake, to not say alive, stood in the water with a temperature of 28F. Around the world, the R.M.S. Titanic was the most advanced steamboat of the first decade of 1900’s. After two hours and forty minutes the Titanic completely sank in the Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of April, 15th, 1912.