One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic

Author and Historian William Hazelgrove returns to the Library. The race to save the largest ship in the world from certain death would reveal both heroes and villains. It would begin at 11:40 pm on April 14 when the iceberg was struck and would end at 2:20 am on April 15, when her lights blinked out and left 1,500 people thrashing in 25-degree water. Although the race to save Titanic survivors would stretch on beyond this, most people in the water would die, but the amazing thing is that of the 2,229 people, 710 did not and this was the success of the Titanic rescue effort.