Titanic Voyage Chart

1912 illustration of Titanic's intended voyage to New York and the location of her sinking.

Titanic left Queenstown (Cobh) in Ireland on the afternoon of Thursday 11 April 1912 and sailed into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.  There were 2201 souls on board, but lifeboat space only for 1178. 

At 11.40pm on Sunday 14 April, tragedy struck.  The ship hit an iceberg and two hours and forty minutes later, she sank to the ocean floor, with the loss of almost 1500 lives.