VAIN TRIAL TO CLEAR BERG
The first officer did what other startled and alert commanders
would have done under similar circumstances, that is,
THE LOCATION OF THE DISASTER
[Description:
Section of a map showing the location of the disaster (off the coast of
Nova Scotia).
]
The Titanic was in 41.46 north latitude and 50.14 west longitude when she was struck, very near the spot on the wide Atlantic where the Carmania encountered a field of ice, studded with great bergs, on her voyage to New York which ended on April 14th. It was really an ice pack, due to an unusually severe winter in the north Atlantic. No less than twenty-five bergs, some of great height, were counted.
The shock was almost imperceptible. The first officer did not apparently realize that the great ship had received her death wound, and none of the passengers had the slightest suspicion that anything more than a usual minor sea accident had happened. Hundreds who had gone to their berths and were asleep were unawakened by the vibration.