10 Strangest Facts About The Titanic

the sinking of the Titanic is an event that has left an indelible mark on the face of modern humanity though the tragedy occurred more than a hundred years ago the average citizen still knows about the supposed unsinkable ship but few people know what really occurred onboard today we're looking at 10 incredible facts about the Titanic it's well documented that the Titanic had many rich Patriots because of the unsinkable ships notoriety the world's ultra wealthy lined up to get on board this included an American businessman named John Jacob Astor the fourth not only was he the richest man on board he is widely believed to be the richest living man at a time is that worth at the time of his death was 87 million dollars it's equivalent to 2.3 billion dollars when adjusted for inflation a store left behind a number of accomplishments he was a decorated military veteran and also wrote a popular science fiction novel called a journey in other worlds like generations of Astor's before him he also made millions in real estate in 1897 asterbilt the Astoria Hotel dubbed the world's most luxurious hotel in New York City adjoining the Waldorf Hotel owned by a stores cousin and rival william the complex became known as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and is still one of the most iconic hotels in the world more than 100 years later tragically a store perished with his family dog Kitty his wife and unborn child who were onboard managed to survive and inherited his prodigious wealth violets Joseph is either the luckiest or the unluckiest woman in the world depending on your perception she was a British nurse who grew up in Argentina she was 24 when she first boarded the Titanic where she was working as a nurse Joseph was not quite asleep when the Titanic hit the iceberg she later wrote I was ordered up on deck calmly passengers strolled about I stood at the bulkhead with the other stewardesses watching the women fling their husbands before being put into the boats with their children after eight hours Jessop became one of the small percentage of Titanic passengers and crew rescued by the Carpathia four years later she was on board the Titanic sister ship the Britannic when it sank in the Aegean Sea due to an unexplained explosion Britannic sank within 55 minutes killing 30 out of the 1066 people on board British authorities hypothesized that the ship was either struck by a torpedo or hit a mine planted by German forces remarkably Jessup survived both of these capsized ships that were once believed to be unsinkable in addition she had been on board RMS Olympic the eldest of the three sister ships when it collided with a British warship called the HMS Hawke though it didn't sink it was still remarkable that she was on board all three unlucky ships back before James Cameron was known as one of the most successful film makers of all time here was a sci-fi filmmaker attempting to create a big-budget blockbuster about a cruise ship sinking a hundred years ago the film was Titanic and it quickly became the most popular movie in history when Titanic came out in 1997 it was the highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide box-office of over 1.8 billion dollars by some measures it was the most viewed movie ever but the film was not cheap to produce either it cost a whopping 200 million dollars which especially in 1990s money was a ton of cash today this would be equivalent to 360 million dollars but even more amazing is the fact that the movie was more expensive to produce than the original Titanic was to build it was constructed in 1912 for a total cost of 7.5 million dollars even adjusted for inflation that is just a hundred and ninety million dollars a full ten million short of James Cameron's budget however Cameron's endeavor turned out to be much more successful than that of the unfortunate ship of the same name despite the fact that the Titanic was the largest ship ever constructed at the time of sinking it still took 73 years to find its wreckage understandably the ocean is vast and even after numerous dedicated rescue missions the public never knew where it actually rested in the end authorities gave up and many decades passed before the Titanic was discovered by accident the 1985 discovery of the Titanic stemmed from a secret United States Navy investigation of two wrecked nuclear submarines according to the oceanographer who found the infamous ocean liner essentially the discovery was part of a top-secret mission during the Cold War but the navy was sworn to secrecy on the matter until recently on September 1st 1985 a joint American French expedition headed by famous American oceanographer dr. Robert Ballard found the Titanic over two miles below the ocean's surface by using an unmanned submersible called Argo this discovery gave new meaning to the Titanic sinking and gave birth to new dreams in ocean exploration the initial purpose of the trip was to discover if there was any nuclear waste left over from to nearby submarines but in the end the mission was fruitful and led to the most famous underwater discovery in history it's no secret that the sinking of the Titanic was a deadly disaster but the truth is that the vast majority of the passengers died in the wreckage over 1500 people died in the maritime disaster while 705 individuals survived researcher Chuck NSE crunched the numbers breaking down the demographics of the survivors he found that 97% of the 144 female first-class passengers were rescued while only 32 percent of their 175 male counterparts were saved ultimately he found that male second-class passengers fed the worst in terms of survival with only 14 out of 168 making it out alive the total survival rate for women was 74 percent while the male survival rate was 20% another terrible tragedy is that the boat hosted many family pets though their quarters were opened after the ship began to sink only two of them managed to survive for one passenger named Ann Elizabeth ischium this may have led to her own demise legend states she probably died because she did not want to leave behind her Great Dane after the ship began to sink a woman was reportedly sighted in the water with her arms frozen around a dog in the end she was only one of four first-class women who perished eliza gladys millvina dean was a british civil servant cartographer and the last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic at 2 months old she was also the youngest passenger aboard her parents had decided to leave England for America where her father had family in Kansas and hoped to open a tobacco shop the deans had not chosen to be aboard the Titanic but because of a coal strike they were transferred to the ship and boarded it as third-class passengers and Southampton her father felt the crunch of the ship's collision with the iceberg on the night of the 14th of April 1912 and went up to investigate he returned to their cabin telling his wife to dress the children and go up on deck though she doesn't remember it Dean and her mother and siblings survived while her father perished in the tragic accident as soon as Dean reached the shore reporters crowded her hoping to snap a photo of the titanic infant almost 100 years later she passed away at her senior home in England her ashes were scattered from a launch at the docks in Southampton where the Titanic set sail in the final years of her life her housing bills were paid by Leo DiCaprio Kate Winslet and James Cameron the Titanic was a singular ship with some crazy statistics to back it up for example the ship was 883 feet long burned 825 tons of coal a day and used more than 10,000 light bulbs though many people perished during the crash there were actually two workers who passed away during construction in addition the anchor was so heavy it took 20 horses to transport it the Titanic had a maximum capacity of 3,500 passengers though there were roughly 2,300 on board when it sank of these there were thirteen honeymooning couples this was not a very festive way to celebrate their marriage each lifeboat had a capacity of 65 people though there are only 28 on the first boat the Titanic was equipped to carry 65 lifeboats but it only had 20 onboard because they assumed they would never need them on board there were 1,000 bottles of wine and 40,000 fresh eggs an amazing 14,000 gallons of drinking water was drunk every day miraculously the Titanic received six iceberg warnings before finally colliding with a massive icy monolith 31 percent of the passengers survived but 53 percent could have survived if the boat was properly prepared the ship currently rests at twelve thousand six hundred feet below sea level the Titanic was the largest ship in the world for its time it was longer than the famous Lusitania built in 1906 by more than a hundred feet the Lusitania itself was 790 feet in length before construction of the ship three berths at the Belfast shipyard had to be modified to accommodate the Titanic and its two sister ships the Britannic and the Olympic also across the Atlantic modifications had to be made to the pier in New York City Harbor to receive these larger ships the Titanic and its sister ships did not hold the distinction of being the largest ships for long even though they were 883 feet from bow to stern by 1934 the luxury cruise ship the Queen Mary took the honor of being the longest and largest ship it beat the Titanic's length by a hundred and thirty six feet it was 1019 feet long that's the equivalent of more than three football fields laid end to end it was not until the 1990s that another cruise ship was built longer than the Queen but the current largest ship in the world absolutely dwarfs the Titanic with 18 decks and seven neighbourhoods Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship at 1188 feet it's more than 300 feet longer than the Titanic and can house an excess of 5,000 more people Frederick fleet is a British man who is famous for a very unfortunate reason along with fellow lookout Reginald Lee on duty aboard the Titanic when the ship struck the iceberg it was fleet who first sighted the iceberg rigging the bridge to proclaim iceberg right ahead on the evening of April 14th the Titanic began to approach an area known to have icebergs the captain slightly altered the ship's course to head farther south however he maintained his ship speed of about 22 knots fleet and Lee were stationed in the crow's nest of a Titanic their task was made difficult by the fact that the ocean was unusually calm that night because there would be little water breaking at its base an iceberg will be more difficult to spot in addition the Crowsnest binoculars were missing fleet later attested that if they had binoculars he believed they could have saved the ship apparently this information weighed on his spirit because fleet hanged himself in 1965 it turns out fake news has been around for at least 100 years upon hearing that the Titanic sank nearly all news agencies including the Daily Mail the Belfast Telegraph and the world reported that there were no casualties on board in order to maintain calm however this also gave false hope to the families of the passengers who learned of their friends and families passing in a cruel twist of fate in Baltimore the sun's Evening Sun for April 15th devoted its entire 1st page to the disaster under the good news banner and headlines all Titanic passengers are safe transferred in lifeboats at sea but other newspapers had the same story in New York The Evening Sun also exalted all saved from Titanic after collision some papers even reported that the ship didn't sink the paragraph of the Halifax never Scotty our story states held afloat only by her waterproof compartments the Great White Star liner Titanic is slowly crawling toward this harbor the Oswego Daily Times used a United Press Association story reporting the Titanic was not only afloat but that her engines were working

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Published: Tue Dec 24 2019