At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic
sank into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of
Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried
2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and
half hours before.
The iceberg thought to have been hit by Titanic, it was
reported to have a streak of red paint from a ships hull
along it s waterline on one side.