The Sinking of the RMS Titanic: Part Three - Southampton

April 10, 1912. Six in the morning. Dawn breaking over Southampton. At Berth 44, the largest moving object on earth sits waiting — boilers burning, officers walking their inspections, stewards arranging flowers in rooms no one has slept in yet. In six hours, she sails.But before Titanic ever reached open water, she nearly collided with another ship in the harbor. And deep in her belly, a coal fire had been burning for days. Nobody told the passengers.This episode covers the full sailing day — the passengers who boarded and what they were carrying with them, the near-miss that almost ended the voyage before it began, and the hidden problem the crew was quietly managing while everyone else marveled at the ship's beauty.In the free episode: the boarding of over 2,200 souls across three classes, the harrowing suction event with the SS New York, and the coal fire that was finally extinguished the day before the iceberg.In the full premium episode at newssidequest.com: the officers who didn't want to be there, the 325 engineering crew members who kept the lights burning until two minutes before the ship went down — and paid for it with their lives — and the locked gates that turned class separation into a death sentence for hundreds of third-class passengers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.