Titanic Sinks: 1,500 Perish as Ship Breaks Apart in Ice
The RMS Titanic broke apart and sank in the freezing North Atlantic, killing 1,517 of its 2,227 passengers and crew in the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster of its era. Only 710 survivors were pulled from lifeboats, many half-empty because crew had launched them before they were full, compounding a catastrophe born of hubris.
April 15, 1912
114 years ago
Key Figures & Places
RMS Titanic
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Atlantic Ocean
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iceberg
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Titanic
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sinking of the RMS Titanic
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Atlantic Ocean
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Iceberg
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Seville
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Christopher Columbus
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Ocean liner
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Pueblo británico
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14 de abril
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RMS Carpathia
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