First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ships’ engines stopped, reversed, and then the mighty ship tried to turn hard to port to miss the berg. In doing this, the ship missed hitting the ice berg head on, but would scrape along the side of the ice instead, which probably caused more damage than hitting it straight on would have. The ships watertight had been punctured and the first fine compartments filled with water and the Titanic began to sink, in the book Titanic Lynch explains that the collision occurred at 11:40 pm on Sunday, April 14, at that time no ship was close enough to arrive and help Titanic.
