At 2:18 a.m. Titanic’s lights flickered once came back on and then went out forever. The over 1,500 people left on board were now in complete darkness.
At 2:20 a.m., April 15, 1912, 2 hours and 40 minutes after striking the iceberg, the greatest and largest ship in the world, Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, sank beneath the North Atlantic, taking with her more than 1,500 passengers and crew to their death.