Titanic goes down on Twitter
As we know on the morning of April 15, 1912, the sinking of the Titanic the previous night shocked the world. That year was full of promise and the maiden voyage of the Titanic was a symbol of the advances mankind had made in the last few years. The ship was considered to have been so well constructed it was believed she could sustain any amount of damage and still remain afloat. Late on the night of April 14, 1912, the sinking of the Titanic proved this idea wrong in a horribly tragic way.
One hundred years on (this week) April 14, 2012, bells will toll from the three churches – St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, St. Paul’s Anglican Church and St. George’s Round Church. These are the same churches whose bells first rang out when the first death ship returned to Canada on April 30, 1912. In Cape Race, Nfld., the closest landmass to the Titanic, emergency flares will be set off and a moment of silence held at 12:27 a.m. to mark the last time a distress call was received by the Marconi wireless system.
Also, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will broadcast the Titanic’s original wireless transmissions in real time on Twitter. The hash tag for the 2012 real time account on Twitter is #TitanicMMA and communications will be tweeted from 11.55pm Newfoundland Standard Time on April 14 (12.55pm April 15 Sydney time) to mimic the time of communications.
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