It's believed that something less than forty seconds transpired between Titanic's sighting of - and the collision with - the iceberg.
Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm and was submersed enough to crack at 2:20 the next morning.
Around an hour
Titanic left Belfast on April 3rd, 1912, (heading for a week-long layover in Southampton) and collided with the iceberg on April 14th.
It took the Titanic two hours forty minutes from striking the iceberg 'til it sunk.
about 2 hours
It took just under 3 hours for the Titanic to sink after striking an iceberg.
6 minutes
I took Titanic 2 and a half hours to sink after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912.
RMS Titanic struck the iceberg at approximately 11:40pm on the 14th of April and a distress call was sent out just after midnight.
7 hour and 56 min.
Between spotting the berg and colliding with it, it's believed to be less than 40 seconds.
Two hours and twenty minutes.