The Sinking of the RMS Titanic

The Sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred when the White Star Line ship The RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in The North Atlantic Ocean

What happened
Due to The Labrador Current crossing the ocean carrying icebergs from Greenland, the visibility was low, and the Titanic lookouts could not see ahead. They didn't see the iceberg that sunk them until it was thirty seconds away. The first officer on the bridge, William Murdoch, ordered the ship to turn 'Hard to starboard'. Under the tiller mechanism, this meant that the ship turned to the port side. However, it was too slow, and the iceberg scarped against the side of the ship, breaching five of its sixteen watertight compartments. The Titanic could stay afloat if two or four of its watertight compartments flooded, but not five. The ship went down bow first, split in two, and sank.