Description
Despite the intense cold, this Sunday, April 14, 1912, was magnificent. Around 11:30 p.m., the steward of the first-class lounge comes courteously to ask four bridge players to finish their game so that he can turn off the lights.
Shortly after, the Titanic, which was traveling at 22.5 knots, hit an iceberg. In just over two hours, the flagship of the White Star Line, a true technological feat deemed unsinkable, sank off the coast of Newfoundland.
Many questions remain surrounding the disaster which, according to some, could have been avoided: why, for example, the officers of the Californian, a cargo ship stopped in the middle of the ice a few miles from the Titanic, did not try to decipher the mysterious signals light that they could see from their side?
Drawing on American and British investigations, Gérard Piouffre traces here the history of the most famous shipwreck.
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