• A collection of videos and archives
  • about the ship made in
  • Belfast, which sank
  • on her maiden voyage
  • 1861
    11 April
    Edward J. Harland and Gustav W. Wolff create Harland & Wolff.
  • 1895
    1895
    William Pirrie becomes H&W chairman. H&W to be sole supplier to White Star Line.
  • 1907
    June
    Designs begin in the H&W Drawing Office for Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.
  • 1908
    29 July
    Designs of Olympic and Titanic by Comber man Thomas Andrews are approved.
  • 1909
    31 March 12:00PM
    Construction of Titanic begins in Slipway No. 3. Her keel is laid.
  • 1910
    19 October
    Plating is finished on Titanic.
  • 1911
    31 May 12:00PM
    Titanic hull is launched and afloat for the first time in Belfast Lough.
  • 1912
    31 March
    The fitting of Titanic is completed and the ship is ready to sail.
  • 01 April
    The Titanic’s sea trials are postponed due to bad weather.
  • 02 April 06:00AM
    Titanic begins one day of sea trials, before returning to Belfast.
  • 02 April 08:00PM
    Declared seaworthy, Titanic bids farewell to Belfast.
  • 04 April 12:00AM
    Titanic arrives in Southampton ahead of her maiden voyage.
  • 06-08 April
    Titanic is loaded with supplies. Her crew is hired.
  • 10 April 07:30AM
    Captain Smith comes aboard. Ill health stops Lord Pirrie at the last minute.
  • 10 April 09:30AM
    Passengers begin boarding.
  • 10 April 12:00PM
    Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton.
  • 10 April 06:30PM
    Titanic reaches Cherbourg, France, to pick up more passengers.
  • 11 April 01:30PM
    Titanic departs Queenstown, Ireland, for New York, raising anchor for the last time.
  • 14 April 09:20PM
    Captain Smith retires to his room before the last of several ice warnings is received.
  • 14 April 11:40PM
    Frederick Fleet sees an iceberg, rings the bell, shouts ‘Iceberg, right ahead!’
  • 14 April 11:40PM
    Order is given to steer the ship and put the engines in reverse.
  • 14 April 11:40PM
    Titanic strikes the iceberg on starboard side, travelling at over 20 knots.
  • 14 April 11:40PM
    In less than 10secs, the hull is damaged below the waterline over 300 ft.
  • 14 April 11:50PM
    Five watertight compartments are flooded to 14 ft.
  • 15 April 12:00AM
    Thomas Andrews tells Captain Smith the ship is doomed.
  • 15 April 12:05AM
    Order is given to uncover the lifeboats and wake up passengers.
  • 15 April 12:15AM
    First distress signal is transmitted. It is picked up by Carpathia.
  • 15 April 12:25AM
    Order is given to load the lifeboats with passengers, women and children first.
  • 15 April 12:45AM
    First lifeboat is lowered into the freezing water, with 28 people on board.
  • 15 April 02:05AM
    Last lifeboat is lowered -1,500 people remain on board. Titanic's bow is submerged.
  • 15 April 02:17AM
    Captain Smith tells his crew: 'It’s every man for himself.'
  • 15 April 02:18AM
    Titanic breaks in two. The bow half sinks. The stern becomes level before filling with water.
  • 15 April 02:20AM
    Stern tilts upward and sinks, with the loss of over 1,500 lives.
  • 15 April 04:10AM
    First lifeboat is spotted and picked up by Carpathia.
  • 15 April 08:50AM
    Carpathia leaves site with 705 survivors on board.
  • 16-17 April
    Shock on both sides of the Atlantic at the loss of Titanic.
  • 18 April 09:00PM
    Carpathia arrives in New York with survivors.
  • 30 April
    Over 300 bodies are brought back from the site of the sinking and buried in Halifax, Canada.
  • 25 May
    The US Senate ends its inquiry into the sinking. Joseph Bruce Ismay testified.
  • 03 July
    The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the disaster ends.
  • 1920
    01 June
    A Titanic Memorial is unveiled on the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
  • 1955
    November
    Publication of Walter Lord’s book A Night to Remember.
  • 1958
    01 July
    Premiere of A Night to Remember, produced by William MacQuitty.
  • 1985
    01 September
    Robert Ballard discovers the wreck on the ocean floor.
  • 2012
    31 March
    The world's largest Titanic-themed exhibition opens in Belfast.
The Titanic Timeline
“
I was far up on one of the top decks when I jumped. About me, others were in the water ... it was icily cold.”
Robert W Daniel, banker