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The Titanic lowered her anchor when arrived at Cherbourg, France, at about 5:30pm of the same day. More passengers boarded the Titanic. At approximately 8:10pm Titanic
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Although the Carpathia was the nearest ship contacted, there was a ship even nearer. Upon his unbelievable findings, he gave Titanic, the unsinkable ship an hour or two before she founders into the icy Atlantic.
After the collision with the iceberg, the only thing left to save the passengers and crew, were the lifeboats. After half an hour or so one lifeboat returned to the disaster site to locate survivors but they were to late. As the ship was dragged down by its forward flooded section, the hull rose almost vertically, the fore funnel breaking off and falling among swimmers in the water.
The stern kept rising higher every second. The Californian had tried to reach the Titanic earlier, before the collision, to war her about ice. The officers on the Titanic saw the Californian also, and contact was tried, but failed. He saw an object darker than night it self, coming towards the Titanic. People began jumping of the ship hoping that they could manage to escape but the water was to cold and people lay helpless in the water. Finally with the firs class passengers on the top decks, the lifeboats were ready to be lowered. Water soon began to take over the Grand Staircase, were as many of the wealthiest passengers onboard stood helplessly with no were to go.
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