Chapter 1
Engineering a steel giant
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Chapter 2
A floating society of contrasts
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Chapter 3
The collision and the cold night
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Chapter 4
Rescue and the aftermath
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Chapter 5
How the night changed the ocean
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Inside the Titanic tragedy
Ch 3 · The collision and the cold night
artiteacher RMS Titanic Collision
Unsinkable, they cried, on the ocean so blue, Then an iceberg in the cold night, cut right through!
artiteacher The iceberg did not slice the ship open, but buckled the steel plates along the bow.
Fun Fact
Iceberg's ancient origin: The iceberg that struck the Titanic likely broke off from Greenland about three thousand years before the collision.
artiteacher The Titanic received multiple wireless iceberg warnings from other vessels on the day of the collision.
Glossary
iceberg (noun)
A large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier and carried out to sea. The Titanic struck one in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912.
A large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier and carried out to sea. The Titanic struck one in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912.