the path to doom

April 10, 1912

After the incident with the New York was over, the Titanic could carry on with it's secheduled trip; stopping at Cherboug, France and Queenstown (now called Cobh) Ireland. From there it was to carry on into the icy waters of the North Atlantic to New York City, it's final destination. But not one of the 2224 passengers could tell the Titanic would be stopped forever down to the bottom of the sea.

The Titanic's first stop was Cherboug.  It arrived there an hour late because of its incident with the New York. 142 first class passengers, 30 second class passengers, and 102 third class passengers boarded at Cherboug.

Many of the Titanic's most rich and famous passengers boarded in France, including 47 year-old John Jacob Astor and his newely wedded wife Madeline, who was only 18. They were traveling to New York returning from their exctended honeymoon in Egypt and Paris. Madeline was pregnant and wanted her baby born in the United States. Also, Margaret Brown (later to be known as the unsinkable Molly Brown) and Benjamin Guggenheim who was on the ship with a lady named Madame Aubart. She was not his wife.

Not many people disembarked from the great ship. 15 first class passengers and 9 second class passengers and a canary who belonged to Mr. Meanwell.

The port in Cherboug was not a big enough port to hold the Titanic, so the tugboats the Traffic and Nomadic carried passengers on board. Many people to be documented in history boarded the titanic in Cherboug. In fact every last soul on the Titanic was to be a part of history, whether unknown or known to all the voices of the world. The Titanic truly did change the world.


April 11,1912

After traveling the seas for a night, the Titanic would arrive in Queenstown at 11:30 a.m. 113 third class passengers and 7 second class passengers as well as luggage and sacks of mail were carried out to theTitanic in the tugboats America and Ireland.

The Titanic left Queenstown at 1:40 p.m . Now the Titanic was headed straight in the direction of the icy waters that led to New York city. There in it's path lay the iceberg that marked the titanic's doom.