Today is Tuesday, April 15th 2025, For a lot of us it seems like an average day. We get up, Say good bye to our loved ones, so go to work, others off to meet with friends, others just to be alone. But 113 years ago, early in the morning, out on the cold North Atlantic ocean, Many people we're unknowingly about to become apart of history. 113 years ago, it was Monday, April 15th 1912. The final day of Titanic's maiden voyage. But the first day of her voyage into eternity. At 2:20am, she slipped beneath the surface of the waves, not to be seen again by human eyes, for 73 long years. And despite all that, she held strong in the memories and hearts of many. 10 years from today, 20, 50, 100, we will always look back on this day, and remember.
"There was peace and the world had an even tenor to it's way. Nothing was revealed in the morning the trend of which was not known the night before. It seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event that not only made the world rub it's eyes and awake but woke it with a start keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since with less and less peace, satisfaction and happiness. To my mind the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912." -Jack B. Thayer, Titanic Survivor
"Many brave things were done that night but none more brave than by those few men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea…the music they played serving alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recorded on the rulls of undying fame." -Lawrence Beesley, Titanic Survivor
"Striking the water was like a thousand knives being driven into one's body. The temperature was 28 degrees, four degrees below freezing." -Charles Lightoller, Second Officer aboard Titanic
"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it." -Eva Hart, Titanic Survivor
"When anyone asks how I can best describe my experience in nearly 40 years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of any sort worth speaking about. …… I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. You see, I am not very good material for a story" -Captain Smith, Commander of Titanic
"Come at once, we have struck a berg, it's a CQD old man." -Jack Phillips, Wireless Operator
"And it wasn't until we were in the lifeboat and rowing away, it wasn't until then I realized that ship's going to sink. It hits me there." -Eva Hart, Titanic Survivor