1912 - 12:10 AM: Captain E. J. Smith asked how long until the ship was submerged and Shipbuilder Thomas Andrews, after some fast calculations, told him, "An hour and a half. Possibly two. Not much longer." Smith ordered the boats uncovered.

1912 - 12:15 AM: Captain Smith walked into the wireless room and tells Phillips to send the call for assistance. He handed him the paper with the position of the ship and returned to the bridge. The order had been given to get the passengers up and into lifebelts. Many, still confused as to why they had been awakened, lined up at the purser's office to get their valuables. Most were still unaware of the urgency and made no preparations to leave the ship.

1912 - 12:25 AM: The order had been passed to load the boats.

1912 - 12:40 AM: Boat number 7 was the first to be lowered with 27 people in a boat designed for 65. The boat rowed away from the ship and its passengers sat for the next 90 minutes watching Titanic sink.

1912 - 12:55 AM: Lifeboat 6 portside was lowered. Margaret Brown was picked up and dropped into the descending boat. The passengers noticed there was only one man present and called for more to aid in rowing. Major Arthur Peuchen was allowed by Lightoller to slide down the falls, the only man Lightoller let into a lifeboat. Boat 6 contained 28 passengers, even though it was made for 65.

1912 - 1:00 AM: Lifeboat 3 was launched from the starboard side with 50 people aboard. Minutes later another lifeboat of the same size, Lifeboat 1, was lowered containing only 12 people. All were designed to hold 65.

1912 - 1:40 AM: Most of the boats forward have gone. Collapsible C has been put in the davits in place of the now departed number 1 and Chief Officer Wilde calls for woman and children, no one responds. wasmay and first class passenger Billy Carter (the owner of the Renault in forward hold #2) get into the boat and it was lowered. By now the lwast was pronounced enough that the boat has to be pushed away from the hull so the rivets will not tear the canvas that makes up it's sides.

1912 - 1:55 AM: Lightoller returned to load boat 4 through the windows of the promenade deck. Again a boat was lowered with too few seamen and Quartermaster Perkins slides down the falls to help. Seven more men were pulled from the water, two die of exposure.

1912 - 2:05 AM: Captain Smith went to the wireless room and released the operators from their duty. Phillips started to gather their papers while Bride kept working the key. Smith returned to his bridge to await his fate.

1912 - 2:10 AM: Collapsible B was washed from the deck while the seamen were attempting to attach the davits. The men working on it including Lightoller found themselves in the water. The boat floated away upside down.

1912 - 2:20 AM: Titanic was completely submerged.

1912 - 3:30 AM: The Titanic survivors adrift in the lifeboats, first saw Carpathia's Rockets.

1912 - 4:10 AM: Carpathia arrived at the site of the sinking, and began to take on survivors. Lifeboat 2 was the first to be picked up.

1912 - 8:10 AM: Lifeboat 12, the last one afloat, was picked up by the Carpathia.

1912 - 8:30 AM: The Californian arrived at the site.

1912 - 8:50 AM: Carpathia left the site for New York, leaving the Californian to pick up the bodies.

1875 - 1st class passenger Mr Edward Pomeroy Colley was born in County Kildare, Ireland.

1914 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Elizabeth "Eliza" Hocking died in a road traffic accident at the age of 56.

1939 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Elizabeth Anne Mellinger and her daughter, Madeleine Violet Mellinger, together with Emma Bliss and Samuel John Collins met for a Titanic reunion dinner at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1975 - 3rd class survivor Master Meier Moor died of natural causes at the age of 70. It was the 63rd anniversary of the sinking.

1961 - 3rd class survivor Miss Bertha Bridget Moran died of natural causes in Michigan, USA at the age of 77. It was the 49th anniversary of the sinking.

1898 - 3rd class survivor Miss Jamila ("Amelia Garrett") Nicola-Yarred was born.

1890 - 3rd class survivor Mr David Vartanian was born to Azadia Vartanian and Sierma Agoien in Turkish Armenia.

1964 - 3rd class survivor Mrs Selma Augusta Emilia Asplund died of an intestinal obstruction at the age of 90.

1868 - Postal Clerk Mr Oscar Scott Woody was born.