The Titanic | She's Doomed | 2
American History Tellers
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Just past midnight on April 15th, 1912, only 20 minutes after striking an iceberg, the Titanic began taking on water in her forward hull. Captain Edward Smith quickly realized the ship was doomed to sink and issued orders to start loading the lifeboats. But with only 20 lifeboats on board, more than half the 2,200 passengers and crew would be left behind. As the severity of the disaster spread among the passengers, they would be forced to make terrifying decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of American history tellers early and |
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| 0:09.7 | We're excited to announce that American History Tellers legacy season, The Space Race, is now available in full video on the American History Tellers YouTube channel. |
| 0:19.5 | Relive the fierce competition between superpowers and witness history as it |
| 0:24.0 | unfolds in a whole new way. |
| 0:26.0 | Subscribe to the American History Tellers channel on YouTube and let us know what you think. Thank you. Imagine it's midnight on April 15th, 1912. You're the managing director of the |
| 0:49.6 | Harlan and Wolf shipyard and you're standing on the bridge of the world's largest ship, the RMS Titanic. |
| 0:56.1 | You oversaw her design and construction, and this was supposed to be her triumphant maiden voyage. |
| 1:01.5 | But less than an hour ago, your beautiful ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. |
| 1:06.0 | Now you're standing beside Captain Edward Smith as the engine slowed down and the ship glides to a stop. |
| 1:12.0 | You can feel the deck already |
| 1:14.2 | tilting slightly to the right an ominous sign. The captain seems calm but is |
| 1:20.0 | clearly worried. We've closed the watertight doors between all |
| 1:23.7 | compartments, stopped the engines. My fourth officer went down below to make sure |
| 1:27.6 | the damages contained but there are reports that water is already coming into the |
| 1:31.5 | mailroom and onto the squash court. |
| 1:33.4 | I think you and I should go down and make our own inspection. |
| 1:36.6 | I agree, but let's take the crew stairway, avoid alarming any passengers. |
| 1:40.6 | Good idea. |
| 1:41.6 | We'll head down to the forward boiler room and then work our way to the engine room. |
| 1:46.8 | As you follow the captain down the metal stairs, you run into three coal stokers rushing |
| 1:51.4 | up from their posts. You keep descending, but then stop in your |
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