Passengers of the RMS Titanic April 1912 at around 11:40 pm, while the RMS "Titanic" was sailing about south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the ship struck an iceberg and began to sink. Shortly before midnight, Captain Edward Smith ordered the ship's lifeboats to be readied and a distress call was sent out. The closest ship to respond was Cunard Line's away, which would arrive in an estimated four hours—too late to rescue all of "Titanic" passengers. Forty-five minutes after the ship hit the iceberg, Captain Smith ordered the lifeboats to be loaded and lowered under the orders women and children first. The first
RMS Titanic in popular culture Canada" series, is set after the disaster and features a fictional heroine trying to cope with the events. In Stephen Baxter's 2017 sequel to "The War of the Worlds", "The Massacre of Mankind", the "Titanic" is mentioned as having survived its encounter with the iceberg due to it being armored with aluminum developed from Martian technology. Since the discovery of the wreck, several video games have been released with an RMS "Titanic" theme for various platforms; most of these are either about the player being a passenger on the doomed ship trying to escape, or a diver exploring and possibly