The definitive chronology of the Titanic's final hours, offering readers a real-time experience of one of the greatest dramas of the twentieth century.
At 2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic was plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor.
The giant ship had broken into two pieces - her streamlined bow speeding to the bottom of the sea, her stern sinking slower, breaking up as it went. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. Hundreds of passengers and crew remained trapped below decks - hundreds more would perish on the surface.
