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Titanic History

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
1912 - 9:00 AM: Titanic received its third ice warning from the Caronia. Second Officer Lightoller calculated that they would be to that at position by 11:00 pm. This warning was the only one of nine warnings to be posted for Titanic's officers to see.

1912 - 11:40 AM: Titanic received the fourth ice warning from the Dutch Liner Noordam.

1912 - 1:42 PM: The Baltic sent the fifth ice warning to Titanic.

1912 - 1:45 PM: Titanic received a sixth ice warning from German Steamer Amerika, which reports passing several large icebergs. As per wireless protocol, Wireless Operator Phillips does not pass on the warning to the officers because it was not addressed to Titanic. Amerika has a weaker signal than other ships in the area and needs those ships to pass on the message.

1912 - 6:00 PM: Charles Herbert Lightoller relieved Chief Office Wilde on the bridge placing him in command of her.

1912 - 7:00 PM: The bridge telegraphed the engine room "All Ahead Full" and the stokers light the last 3 boilers.

1912 - 7:15 PM: First Officer Murdoch ordered Lamp Trimmer Samuel Hemming to close the forward forecastle hatch and skylight to prevent the light from interfering with the lookout's vision.

1912 - 7:30 PM: A wireless from the Californian from Antillian was intercepted by her wireless operator and delivered to the bridge. It warned of three large icebergs 5 miles to the south of Titanic. Lightoller took a stellar sighting and gave the information to Boxhall to plot on the chart.

1912 - 8:55 PM: Captain Smith left the party he was attending and went to the bridge. He discussed the weather and how calm the sea was with Lightoller.

1912 - 9:20 PM: Captain Smith went to his cabin leaving word that he should be called "if it becomes the least doubtful".

1912 - 9:30 PM: Lightoller tells the lookouts to "keep a sharp lookout for ice" and in particular "small ice and growlers" till daylight.

1912 - 9:40 PM: A wireless came in from the Mesaba warning of heavy pack ice, large icebergs and field ice. Jack Phillips was alone in the wireless room as Harold Bride was taking a nap. Phillips, busy with traffic for Cape Race, sets the message aside for later delivery to the bridge and it was forgotten.

1912 - 10:00 PM: Lightoller was relieved by Murdoch. They discussed the evening and Lightoller gave Murdoch the pertinent information that was required when the watch was handed over to another officer and went off to do his rounds of the ship. At the same time the lookouts, Symons and Jewell, were relieved by Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee. Lightoller's orders about ice were passed along to them. The lights were turned off in the third class common areas.

1912 - 10:50 PM: The Californian's wireless man, Cyril Evans, was told to notify ships in the area that the freighter was stopped in ice. The Captain, Stanley Lord does not tell him to send it "master to master" and Evans sends to Titanic that they were stopped and surrounded by ice. This was sent as a casual message to the Titanic's operator and Evans was rebuffed by him, "Shut up! I'm working Cape Race!".

1912 - 11:40 PM: Fleet and Lee had noticed a slight haze ahead and a bit off either side of the ship around 11:30 and were watching it to see if there was something beyond it. They watched and waited. Fleet noticed something and rang the crow's nest bell three times and grabbed the telephone to the bridge. A voice answered, ""Yes. What do you see?"", ""Iceberg right ahead!"", ""Thank you.""

1944 - 1st class survivor Mrs Marian Longstreth Thayer died of natural causes at the age of 71.

1912 - 2nd class passenger Mr Robert Douglas Norman played the piano at an evening hymn service presided over by Rev Ernest Carter.

1940 - 2nd class survivor Mr Emilio Pallas Y Castello died of natural causes.

1906 - 3rd class passenger Master Paul Folke Pålsson was born to Nils Pålsson and Alma Cornelia Berglund Pålsson.

1890 - 3rd class passenger Miss Honora Fleming was born to Thomas Fleming and Mary Callaghan Fleming.

1910 - 3rd class passenger Miss Margit Elizabeth Skoog was born to Wilhelm ("William Johansson") Skoog and Anna Bernhardina Karlsson.

1896 - 3rd class passenger Mr Alfred George John Rush was born.

1992 - 3rd class survivor Master Bertram Vere Dean died of pneumonia at the age of 81.

1894 - 3rd class survivor Miss Anna Sofia Sjöblom was born to Gabriel Gustafson.

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