When did the titanic sink and why and how many people died and survived?
the Titanic sunk April 14, 1912. 1,523 people perished in the accident, ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. A total of 328 bodies were eventually recovered. On the night of Sunday, April 14, the temperature had dropped to near freezing and the ocean was completely calm. There was no moon and the sky was clear. Captain Edward Smith, perhaps in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless over the last few days, had altered Titanic’s course around 10 miles (18 km) south of the normal shipping route. That Sunday at 1:45 PM, a message from the steamer Amerika warned that large icebergs lay in Titanic’s path, but inexplicably, the warning was never relayed to the bridge. Later that evening, another report of numerous, large icebergs in Titanic’s path, this time from the Mesaba, also failed to reach the bridge. At 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee spott
