MDT Titanic

The night of 14 April 1912, hour by hour

The game follows the real timeline of the sinking. This is what happened, and when it happens to you aboard.

11:40 pm

Lookout Frederick Fleet sees an iceberg dead ahead and rings the crow's nest bell three times. First Officer William Murdoch orders the wheel hard over. She turns, but the ice scrapes along her starboard bow and opens her forward compartments to the sea.

Around midnight

Thomas Andrews, who designed her, goes below with Captain Edward Smith to see the damage, and tells him she will sink within about two hours.

Soon after midnight

The captain orders the lifeboats uncovered. In the wireless room Jack Phillips and Harold Bride begin calling for help, CQD and then the new SOS. The Carpathia, 58 miles away, turns north towards them.

12:45 am

Lifeboat 7, the first to go, is lowered from the starboard side, far from full. The first distress rocket goes up.

1:40 am

The forecastle, her bow, goes under. The water climbs the decks, compartment by compartment.

2:05 am

Collapsible D, the last boat lowered from the davits, leaves. More than 1,500 people are still aboard.

2:15 am

The sea reaches the Boat Deck. Collapsibles A and B wash off the roof of the officers' quarters, B upside down, and the forward funnel falls.

About 2:18 am

The lights fail. She breaks in two between the third and fourth funnels, and the stern rises until it stands almost straight up.

2:20 am

The stern goes under. Hundreds of people are left in water close to freezing.

About 4:10 am

The Carpathia arrives and picks up the first lifeboat. About 710 people are saved; about 1,500 are lost.

The Ship's log: the real rooms of the Titanic in the game

Find a famous room in the game and its history goes into your Ship's log. These are all 48 of them, deck by deck, from the top of the ship to the bottom, with the history the game tells you.

Boat Deck

The crow’s nest

Lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee were up here, 29 metres above the sea. They had no binoculars: the key to the locker had been left behind. At 11:39 Fleet saw the iceberg, rang the bell three times and telephoned the bridge.

Wheelhouse

The ship was steered from here. When the lookouts rang three bells, First Officer Murdoch ordered the wheel hard over and the engines reversed. She turned, but not enough.

Wireless Room

The Marconi wireless room. Jack Phillips and Harold Bride sent the distress call, CQD and then the new SOS, for two hours. The Carpathia, 58 miles away, heard it and raced north through the ice.

Grand Staircase

The top of the Grand Staircase, under a dome of wrought iron and glass. Light from the sky came down five decks.

Gymnasium

The gym had an electric camel, an electric horse, rowing machines and bicycles. On the last night its instructor, T. W. McCawley, stayed among his machines.

Aft Staircase

A second first class staircase, near the fourth funnel. The ship broke apart close to here.

Second Class Entrance

Second class had its own staircase and lift. Its accommodation was as good as first class on many other liners.

The Boat Deck

The Boat Deck carried 20 lifeboats with room for 1,178 people. There were 2,224 on board. The law then based lifeboats on a ship’s size, not on how many people she carried.

A Deck

Grand Staircase, A Deck

Honour and Glory Crowning Time: the carved clock on the landing showed two figures over the dial. The staircase was oak, with wrought iron and gilt balustrades.

Reading and Writing Room

A quiet white room with a bay window, for writing letters home. Passengers posted them in the ship’s own post office.

First Class Lounge

The Lounge was carved in the style of the palace of Versailles, in polished walnut. Here first class read, played cards and listened to the ship’s musicians after dinner.

First Class Smoking Room

Dark mahogany, mother-of-pearl inlay and stained glass windows lit from behind. It was the gentlemen’s room: Thomas Andrews, the ship’s designer, was last seen here.

Verandah Café (Palm Court)

The Verandah Cafés had trellised walls, climbing ivy and wicker chairs: like sitting in a garden at sea. Children of first class often played here.

B Deck

Parlour Suite

The two parlour suites on B deck had a sitting room, bedrooms, a bathroom and their own private promenade along the ship’s side. A one-way crossing in one cost about £870, more than a hundred thousand pounds today.

À la Carte Restaurant

An extra restaurant run by Luigi Gatti and his Italian and French staff, where first class could dine whenever they liked, paying for each dish.

Café Parisien

A Parisian pavement café at sea, with ivy on trellises and wicker furniture, looking out through big windows. It was new on this ship.

Second Class Smoking Room

Second class had its own smoking room with oak panelling and leather chairs.

The forecastle

The bow: the anchor cranes, capstans and the foremast. It was the first part of the ship to go under, at about 1:40 am.

The poop deck

The very stern, the highest point of the ship as she went down. Hundreds gathered here at the end. The chief baker, Charles Joughin, rode the stern down and survived hours in the freezing water.

C Deck

Crew Mess (Forecastle)

Under the forecastle deck were the crew’s mess rooms and galley. Most of the 900 crew lived forward, close to their work.

Purser’s Office

The Purser’s Office kept passengers’ valuables in its safe and sold tickets for the Turkish bath and the squash court.

Barber’s Shop

The barber also ran a little shop selling souvenirs, postcards, toys and pennants of the ship.

Second Class Library

The second class library had sycamore panelling, silk curtains and glass-fronted bookcases.

Third Class General Room

Third class had its own common room, panelled in pine, with benches, tables and a piano. Many families travelling to new lives in America spent the evening here.

The forward well deck

After the collision, ice from the berg lay scattered here. Some third class passengers kicked chunks of it about like footballs, not yet knowing what had happened below.

D Deck

Grand Staircase, D Deck

At the foot of the staircase on D deck was the Reception Room, where first class gathered before dinner.

Third Class Open Berths

Single men in third class slept forward, in big open berths with rows of bunks, close to the bow where the ship first struck.

Reception Room

Before dinner, first class met in the Reception Room at the foot of the Grand Staircase. On Sunday night the band played here.

First Class Dining Saloon

The largest room afloat: 35 metres across, seating 554 people at once, with white Jacobean panelling and leaded windows. The last dinner on 14 April had ten courses.

Galley and Pantry

The galleys served first and second class from the middle of the ship. The chief baker, Charles Joughin, was in charge of the bread.

Second Class Dining Saloon

Second class dined at long tables on swivel chairs, under oak panelling. It sat 394 at a time.

Hospital

The ship had a hospital with its own operating room and dispensary, run by Dr William O’Loughlin.

E Deck

Grand Staircase, E Deck

The Grand Staircase went down to E deck. Below this, the ship was all working spaces.

Scotland Road

The crew called this wide alleyway Scotland Road, after a busy street in Liverpool. It ran most of the ship’s length, and firemen used it to reach the boiler rooms.

F Deck

Swimming Bath

One of the first swimming pools on a ship: 9 metres long, filled with heated sea water. It cost a shilling a swim.

Turkish Bath

The Turkish bath was decorated like a room from the Ottoman empire, with blue and green tiles, gilded beams, bronze lamps and carved couches.

Third Class Dining Saloon

Third class ate in white enamelled saloons at long tables with swivel chairs: better food than many passengers had at home.

G Deck

Post Office

Five postal clerks sorted mail at sea: 3,364 sacks of it. When the water came in they carried the sacks up to drier decks, and all five were lost.

Squash Court

A squash court two decks high, with a spectators’ gallery. A professional was on hand to play with you.

The Orlop deck

Forward Cargo Hold

The holds carried cases of goods, cars, a jewelled copy of the Rubaiyat and much more. The water reached here within minutes of the collision.

The bottom of the ship (Tank Top)

Boiler Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4

Each boiler room had five huge coal-fired boilers. 176 firemen shovelled about 600 tonnes of coal a day to keep her at speed.

Boiler Room 5

The iceberg’s damage reached this far: the water rose here more slowly, while the stokers drew the fires.

Boiler Room 6

The iceberg opened this room to the sea. Leading Stoker Fred Barrett saw water burst through the side and escaped as the watertight door came down.

Reciprocating Engine Room

Two four-cylinder triple-expansion engines, each the size of a house, drove the wing propellers. The engineers stayed at their posts to keep the lights and pumps running until the very end: none of them survived.

Turbine Engine Room

Steam left over from the two engines spun a 420-tonne turbine here, which turned the centre propeller.

Faces of the night: five real people you can meet

In the game you can find five people who were really aboard, where and when they were that night, and speak to them.

Captain Edward Smith

Edward Smith, 62, the White Star Line’s most senior captain, was to retire after this voyage. He ordered the boats uncovered soon after midnight and stayed with his ship. He was lost.

Isidor and Ida Straus

Isidor Straus, a co-owner of Macy’s, was offered a seat because of his age and refused to go before other men. Ida gave her place in Lifeboat 8 to her maid, Ellen Bird, and stayed with him. They were last seen together on deck. Both were lost.

Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown of Denver helped others into the boats and was then put into Lifeboat 6, where she took an oar and urged the crew to go back for people in the water. She survived, and was later called “the Unsinkable Molly Brown”.

Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews of Harland & Wolff designed her. After the collision he told the captain she would sink within two hours, then spent the night urging people into lifebelts and boats. A steward last saw him alone in the First Class Smoking Room. He was lost.

Charles Joughin

Charles Joughin, the chief baker, threw deck chairs overboard as floats, then rode the stern down. He was in the water for about two hours and survived; he believed the drink he had taken kept out the cold.

Titanic lifeboat launch times

She carried 20 lifeboats, with room for 1,178 of the 2,224 people on board. In the game each one leaves at its real time (the times that night are approximate, from the survivors' accounts). Odd-numbered boats were on the starboard side, even-numbered on the port side.

Lifeboat 7

12:45 am, starboard

Lifeboat 5

12:55 am, starboard

Lifeboat 3

1:00 am, starboard

Lifeboat 8

1:00 am, port

Lifeboat 1

1:05 am, starboard

Lifeboat 6

1:10 am, port

Lifeboat 16

1:20 am, port

Lifeboat 14

1:25 am, port

Lifeboat 9

1:30 am, starboard

Lifeboat 12

1:30 am, port

Lifeboat 11

1:35 am, starboard

Collapsible C

1:40 am, starboard

Lifeboat 13

1:40 am, starboard

Lifeboat 15

1:41 am, starboard

Lifeboat 2

1:45 am, port

Lifeboat 4

1:50 am, port

Lifeboat 10

1:50 am, port

Collapsible D

2:05 am, port

Collapsible A

2:15 am, starboard (floated off)

Collapsible B

2:15 am, port (floated off)