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18th April:

On this day 112 years ago: Carpathia arrived in New York with Titanic's 712 survivors. Before docking at Cunard's pier, Carpathia stopped at White Star's pier to unload lifeboats from Titanic. In total Carpathia landed 13 lifeboats in New York, pretty much all that was left of Titanic.

17th April:

On this day 112 years ago: With Carpathia still steaming to New York with Titanic's survivors, contracted by White Star Line, the cable laying ship Mackey-Bennet departed Halifax, Canada to recover Titanic's victims from the sea. In total Mackey-Bennet would recover 306.

16th April:

On this day 112 years ago: As Carpathia was returning to New York with Titanic's survivors aboard, and despite some newspapers the day before claiming all had been saved or even the ship was safe, newspapers around the world started to print the true terrible story.

15th April:

On this day 112 years ago: Shortly after midnight, RMS Carpathia's radio operator received a distress call from Titanic 58 miles away. Carpathia was immediately turned around and headed towards the sinking Titanic. All 712 of Titanic's survivors were rescued by Carpathia.

14th April:

On this day 112 years ago: At 11.40pm Titanic's lookouts noticed an iceberg ahead. They rang the bell in warning and phoned the bridge. Titanic's engines were put in reverse and she was turned towards port, but it was too late, the iceberg struck, and the sea started to pour in.

13th April:

On this day 112 years ago, Titanic's last full day before hitting the iceberg, a fire which had broken out in one of the coal bunkers was finally extinguished. Titanic had left Southampton on her maiden voyage with the coal bunker on fire.

12th April:

On this day 112 years ago: Steaming towards New York on the third day of her her maiden voyage, Titanic received her first wireless message about ice ahead, sent by the French Line's La Touraine.

11th April:

On this day 112 years ago, Titanic called at Queenstown, Ireland to pick up her last passengers, then sailed away from land for the last time. 7 passengers landed there, having completed a safe trip on Titanic, and one crew member deserted the ship.

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10th April:

112 years ago today Titanic sailed away from Southampton. The maiden voyage potentially nearly ended in minutes as the SS New York broke her moorings and nearly crashed into Titanic. Titanic then headed to France, where 24 passengers safely landed and around 270 were picked up.