The Titanic’s First and Last Voyage
HISTORY This Week
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
April 10, 1912. As the RMS Titanic pulls away from a crowded port on the south coast of England, it almost crashes. Just in time, it’s able to turn off its engines and prevent a collision with a smaller ship. Four days later, though, a serious disaster will not be avoided, and the Titanic’s first voyage will be her last. But during her brief life, the vessel is a microcosm of the Gilded world around her. How did this opulent luxury liner come to exist? And how did it foretell the dangers of wealth, technology, and arrogance that shaped the world around it, and the world we live in now?
Special thanks to our guests, Susie Milar and Gareth Russell, author of The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era.
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| 0:00.0 | The History Channel, Original Podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | History this week, April 10, 1912. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Sally Helm. |
| 0:16.7 | It's hard to tell the story of the Titanic from the beginning, |
| 0:20.4 | because it has such a dramatic end. |
| 0:23.8 | On this day, in 1912, the ship sits in her birth on the South Coast of England, |
| 0:28.7 | ready to set sail, and picturing it. |
| 0:32.0 | The passengers unpacking their fur coats and their hat boxes, |
| 0:35.6 | crowds of people waving their handkerchiefs from the pier |
| 0:38.4 | at the Titanic pulls away on her maiden voyage. |
| 0:41.6 | It's like you can already see the distress flares. |
| 0:45.2 | You picture those fur coats and those hat boxes on the ocean floor. |
| 0:49.6 | You almost can't help but imagine the iceberg, |
| 0:52.3 | floating out there beyond all those waving handkerchiefs, |
| 0:54.8 | waiting to bring this ship down. |
| 0:59.4 | Everything looks like a sign. |
| 1:01.9 | As the RMS Titanic pulls away from the crowd at Southampton Port, |
| 1:05.5 | it almost crashes. |
| 1:07.7 | The ship is huge enough that it displaces a ton of water when it moves, |
| 1:12.0 | so much so that a nearby boat breaks free of its mooring cables. |
| 1:16.1 | A passenger reports that they snapped like a thread. |
| 1:19.8 | That ship drifts towards the Titanic, |
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