France.
April 11: Arrives in Queenstown (now known as Cobh), Ireland, before noon. Some passengers get on; others get off. In the afternoon, sets sail for New York.
April 12: First iceberg warning received. Warnings continue for three days.
April 14: Hits iceberg at 11:40 p.m. and ship begins taking on water.
April 15: Shortly before 12:30 a.m., people begin boarding lifeboats. The Titanic splits in half about 2:20 a.m. and sinks minutes later. About 3:30 a.m. the RMS Carpathia arrives.
April 18: The Carpathia reaches New York with the survivors: 56 children, 324 women, 325 men.
ABOUT THE TITANIC
17 stories: The Titanic from the top of its smokestacks to the bottom was 175 feet tall or about as tall as a 17-story building. It was almost three football fields long and almost 100 feet wide.
2,200 Estimated number aboard; it could carry 3,547
