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Titanic Coin
1912Uncirculated Commemoration Coin
Depicts the a Golden RMS Titanic on a Silver Coin at Sea The Back maps the fateful Voyage of Titanic as it Crossed the AtlanticSilver and Gold Plated
It has the words \"RMS Titanic\", \"In Memory of Titanic\" and \"The Voyage of Titanic\"The coin is 40mm in diameter, weighs about 1 oz.
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RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

The largest passenger steamship in the world at the time, the Olympic-class RMS Titanic was owned by the White Star Line and constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, UK. After setting sail for New York City on 10 April 1912 with 2,223 people on board, she hit the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 11:40 pm on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 am the following morning. The high casualty rate resulting from the sinking was due in part to the fact that, although complying with the regulations of the time, the ship carried lifeboats for only 1,178 people. A disproportionate number of men died due to the \"women and children first\" protocol that was enforced by the ship\'s crew.Titanic was designed by experienced engineers, using some of the most advanced technologies and extensive safety features of the time. The sinking of a passenger liner on her maiden voyage, the high loss of life and media frenzy over Titanic\'s famous victims, the legends about the sinking, the resulting changes in maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck have all contributed to the enduring interest in Titanic.

Titanic History | The Titanic Timeline

1850 The White Star Line is founded

1867 White Star Line purchased by Thomas Henry Ismay

1869 Oceanic Stream Navigation Company is formed in order to provide a luxury Atlantic steamship service

1869 Belfast shipbuilders Harland & Wolff commence construction of ships for White Star Line

1891 J. Bruce Ismay, the son of Thomas Henry, becomes a partner in the White Star Line

1894 William James Pirrie becomes the chairman of Harland & Wolff

1898 14 years before the Titanic tragedy, American author Morgan Robertson\'s novel \'Futility\' is published, in which a British liner named Titan, whilst on her maiden voyage in April, strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic resulting in the loss of passengers and crew

1902 U.S. financier J. Pierpont Morgan\'s shipping trust, the International Mercantile Marine Company, purchases The White Star Line

1904 J. Bruce Ismay becomes president and managing director of International Mercantile Marine, and William James Pirrie (Harland & Wolff chairman) a director

30 Apr 1907 The idea to build the Titanic (as well as OLympic and Britannic) is conceived over dinner between J. Bruce Ismay and William James Pirrie, at Lord Pirrie\'s London mansion house. The intent was to construct a class of ships that would compete with the Cunard line for luxury passenger trade upon the Atlantic

29 Jul 1908 Design plans for the Titanic and her sister ship Olympic are agreed in principle

16 Dec 1908 Olympic\'s keel is laid down at Yard No. 400 of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast

31 Mar 1909 Titanic\'s keel is laid down at Yard No. 401

20 Oct 1910 Olympic\'s hull is launched

31 May 1911 Witnessed by over 100,000 spectators, Titanic\'s hull is successfully launched before being towed to the fitting-out basin (Read more about the launch of the Titanic)

June 1911 Olympic commences her maiden voyage

20 Sep 1911 Olympic - under the charge of future Titanic captain Edward J. Smith - collides with the Royal Navy cruiser Hawke, causing significant structural damage. Completion of the Titanic is delayed whilst materials and manpower are diverted to repair Olympic

11 Oct 1911 The official date of Titanic\'s maiden voyage is announced as 10 April 1912 (this was originally intended to be 20 March 1912, before completion of her construction was delayed by the Olympic\'s accident)

2 April 1912 At 8.00pm, Titanic sets sail from Belfast for Southampton.

3 April 1912 Titanic arrives in Southampton.

10 April 1912 At 12 noon, Titanic sets sail from Southampton for New York.

The Last Hours - 14 April 1912

9.00am Senior wireless operator Jack Phillips starts to receive warnings of icebergs from other vessels further to the west. The first warning of the day came from the liner Caronia which had spotted icebergs and growlers (small icebergs, harder to see but still dangerous) in an area around a day\'s sailing away from the Titanic (49° to 51° W).

10.15am Captain Smith is passed the first telegraph warning of icebergs.

11.00am The scheduled time of the first lifeboat drill, which was cancelled by Captain Smith without explanation. This meant that the crew were unrehearsed when the real lifeboat evacuation commenced.

12.00pm Phillips receives the second ice warning of the day, from the steamship Baltic, which reported large icebergs in an area ahead of the Titanic (42°N, 51° 31\' W).

2.00pm Captain Smith passes the second ice warning to Bruce Ismay.

5.30pm Over the course of the next 2 hours, the air temperature drops 10 degrees, down to 0.5°C.

5.50pm The Titanic changes course from south west to due west. This was originally planned to occur at 5.30pm but was delayed to allow Titanic to travel further south in an attempt to avoid the ice region reported by the Baltic. This change should have directed the Titanic into an area of the gulf stream that would be free of icebergs; in any normal year this would be the case, but 1912 was not a normal year for ice - cold water had pushed the warm gulf stream further south - and the change in direction actually put the ship on a collision course with the iceberg.

6.00pm Second Officer Charles Lightoller takes over the bridge from Chief Officer Wilde.

7.20pm Assistant wireless operator Harold Bride finishes work on the accounts and finally picks up the ice warning from the SS Californian, warning of 3 large icebergs (42°N, longitude 49°W). When Bride took the telegram to the bridge, Captain Smith had already left to dine with passengers; the telegram was passed to another officer instead (although none of the surviving officers recalled seeing the message).

8.55pm Captain Smith checks in with the bridge before retiring to his cabin. The conditions are moonless, clear and flat calm. The lack of wind and calm waters would actually make spotting an iceberg more difficult, as without wind they would be unable to see water breaking on the berg. The lack of moonlight would limit the chance of reflected light from the iceberg.

\"Although you cross the Atlantic for years and have ice reported and never see it, at other times it\'s not reported and you do see it.\" Charles Lightoller (at the public inquiry into the sinking)

9.40pm Phillips receives the fifth and final ice warning, from the SS Mesaba, warning of a \"great number\" of large icebergs and field ice just 15 miles ahead of the Titanic (latitude 42°N to 41° 25\', longitude 49°W). Because the message was not prefixed with MSG - the signifier that the communique was intended for the captain - Phillips treated it as non-urgent, failed to pass the message on, and returned to the busy task of sending passengers\' personal telegrams (there was a two hour window to send passenger telegrams via the Cape Race receiver on Newfoundland).

10.00pm Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee commence their watch in the crow\'s nest, looking out for growlers more than larger icebergs. First Officer Murdoch takes over the bridge from Lightoller.

11.00pm The Californian sends a message to say that she has stopped sailing for the evening due to the ice, but Phillips, desperate to complete all of the passenger telegrams, simply replies to say \"Shut up! I am busy. I am working Cape Race\". Meanwhile, unbeknown to Murdoch, the iceberg lies just 15 miles ahead, whilst Titanic continues at a high speed of 21.5 knots (24 mph).

11.30pm The iceberg lies just 4 miles and 10 minutes ahead.

11.39pm The iceberg lies just 1,000 yards ahead, but the moonless conditions mean the lookouts cannot see it still. 30 seconds later and the berg is spotted, but too late too avoid a collision.

11.40pm Alerted by the crow\'s nest, Murdoch demands that the engines be put into reverse and the ship steered away from the berg. The iceberg strikes the Titanic\'s starboard bow. Many passengers and crew sleep through the collision whilst many others - including lookout man Fleet - assume the ship has survived a glancing blow and is undamaged.

The Last Hours - 15 April 1912

12.00am The captain demands that an emergency request for assistance be broadcast to all ships within range. However the nearest ship, the Californian, has turned off her wireless for the evening after receiving Phillips\' curt response earlier in the evening. Tragically, the ship was a mere 20 miles away and could have reached Titanic before she sank.

12.20am Captain Smith gives the order to start loading the lifeboats, women and children first. At this point the Captain will have realised that the deaths of many hundreds of passengers and crew is inevitable.

12.25am The Carpathia replies to say have put about and are heading for the Titanic. She is around 58 miles (4 hours) away.

12:45am The first lifeboat (lifeboat No.7 on the starboard side) is launched. She leaves with just 28 of a possible 65 people on board. The first of eight emergency distress rockets is fired.

2.20am Titanic slips beneath the surface of the water. In waters that are close to freezing temperature, disorientation, exhaustion and unconsciousness are likely within the first 15 minutes, and hypothermia and death likely within 15 to 45 minutes.

3.30am The Carpathia\'s rockets are spotted.

4.10am The Carpathia arrives and starts to pluck survivors from the lifeboats. Lifeboat No.2 is the first to be evacuated.

\"Except for the [life] boats beside the ship and the icebergs, the sea was strangely empty. Hardly a bit of wreckage floated - just a deck chair or two, a few life belts, a good deal of cork*.\" Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Carpathia, in \'Home From The Sea\', 1931 (*cork was the material used for the life preservers)

5.30am The Californian is finally alerted to the disaster, by the Frankfurt, and makes haste to the scene.

8.30am The last of the lifeboats (No.12) is rescued by the Carpathia. The Californian arrives at the scene and navigates the disaster area looking for survivors.

8.50am The Carpathia sets sail for New York, with 705 survivors aboard. In total around 1,522 are believed lost at sea. Aboard Carpathia, Bruce Ismay sends a telegram to the White Star Line\'s New York office.

\"Deeply regret advise you Titanic sank this morning after collision with iceberg, resulting in serious loss of life. Full particulars later.\" Bruce Ismay, in his wire to the White Star Line

The Aftermath

July 03 1912 After 36 days the public enquiry closes, finding that the Titanic was lost due to traveling at excessive speed in a region of ice, and that none of her crew were at fault as this was standard practice. They made the recommendation that future lifeboat numbers be based upon passenger numbers and not a ship\'s tonnage.

\"I think the enquiry is a complete whitewash. You have the [British] Board of Trade in effect enquiring into a disaster that\'s largely of its own making.\" Paul Louden-Brown, White Star Line Archivist