Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the world’s biggest ship, the R.M.S. Titanic, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Two hours and forty minutes later she disappeared beneath the waves, leaving over 1,500 of her passengers to die in the icy waters.
705 people survived the sinking of the Titanic. Some refused to speak of that frightful night, but many would later tell their stories. On this CD, some of the officers, crew, and passengers tell their stories of that fateful night.
The program is edited to take you through that night through the words of the survivors, beginning before the fateful collision and ending after the survivors were rescued by the steamship Carpathia. They tell of feeling the collision, the light atmosphere that followed when the full extent of what was happening was not yet known, the evacuation of the ship and the calls for help from the doomed ship, the experiences in the lifeboats, and the rescue the next morning.
The last survivor of the disaster passed away in 2009, but the firsthand accounts of the most famous shipwreck in history are preserved for posterity.
