The most iconic ship of all time, the RMS
Titanic is also the most tragic vessel ever launched. Lauded as unsinkable by her designer and Captain,
it took just one disastrous encounter with a stray iceberg to prove the folly of man. You're probably familiar with the story of
the Titanic, but how much do you really know about this iconic vessel and its disastrous
voyage? Hello and welcome to another episode of The
Infographics Show- today we're taking a look at 50 incredible facts about the Titanic. 50. The RMS Titanic was the largest moveable man-made
object of her day, 882 feet and 9 inches (269.1 meters) long, 92 feet (28 meters) wide, and
175 feet (53.3 meters) high. She could move at 23 knots, making her fast
for her size. 49. The Titanic had 840 cabins for passengers,
416 in First Class, 162 in Second Class, and 262 in Third Class. She could carry up to 900 tons worth of freight
and baggage. 48. She was powered by 29 triple-furnace coal-fired
boilers burning 825 tons of coal per day, with a storage capacity of 6,611 tons of coal-
just enough for a round trip across the Atlantic. 47. The Titanic was hardly an environmentally-friendly
ship however, dumping 100 tons of ash into the sea each day. 46. The Titanic had four giant funnels reaching
up 81.5 feet (25 meters) above the deck, the purpose of which was to ensure the passengers
weren't covered in the soot that she ejected. 45. The fourth funnel was only added for aesthetic
reasons, to make the ship look powerful and majestic, and used for ventilation. 44. The Titanic had 10 decks total, and strung
along those decks were 10,000 light bulbs. 43. Two engines powered three propellers- two
were at her rear and weighed 38 tons combined, and one was at her center and weighed 22 tons. 42. The Titanic was originally the SS Titanic-
SS meaning Screw Steamer, as in driven by propellers or screws and also standing for
Steamship. She only became the RMS Titanic after carrying
British Royal Mail, thus becoming Royal Mail Steamer Titanic. 41. Two anchors each weighing 15 tons were used
to hold the mighty ship in place when docked. 20 horses were used to transport a single
anchor during her construction. 40. In 1955 Walter Lord published A Night To Remember,
a nonfiction account of the Titanic tragedy which was soon released as a movie in 1958. The story regenerated public interest in the
tragedy after waning substantially over the years, and is likely the only reason we still
talk about her today. 39. The Titanic took two years to construct and
cost an equivalent of 166 million dollars in today's money. That's 34 million dollars less than the cost
of the 1997 movie Titanic, which was $200 million. 38. A 228 foot (69 meters) tall gantry was built
over the Titanic to construct her, the largest ever built at the time, from which up to 15,000
men would work during her construction. 37. 3,000,000 rivets were used to join together
the pieces of the hull, however unlike many other ships built at the time, in order to
cut costs the Titanic's rivets were a mix of iron and steel. Even weaker iron rivets were used on the bow
of the ship, which would be the section that later struck the iceberg. 36. 8 construction workers were killed during
the construction of the Titanic, and 246 were injured. An unwritten expectation from back in her
time was of one death per 1 million pounds spent, which put her death total of 8 well
under budget and was considered a great success. 35. The Titanic carried 75,000 pounds (34,000
kilograms) of fresh meat, 40,000 eggs, 6,000 pounds (2700 kilograms) of butter, 15,000
bottles of beer, 1,000 bottles of wine, 850 bottles of liquor, and 8,000 cigars. 34. Her crew and passengers drank 14,000 gallons
(53,000 liters) of water a day. 33. For her last dinner on the night of April
14th, 1912, passengers in First Class enjoyed Oysters, Salmon, Filet Mignon, Saute of Chicken
Lyonnaise, Lamb in mint sauce, roast duckling, chocolate and vanilla eclairs, and french
ice cream. Passengers in Third Class had the option of
gruel, cabin biscuits, and cheese. Luckily for both First and Third Class, fresh
fish would be pretty immediately available completely for free just a few hours later... 32. The Titanic was capable of carrying 64 lifeboats-
well over her maximum capacity of 3,547 people- yet was only planned to carry 48. That number was eventually reduced to just
20 for cosmetic reasons, as it made the decks look less cluttered. 31. Despite being far too few for the total number
of passengers, the Titanic's 20 lifeboats was technically legal as law at the time was
based on the gross register tonnage of a ship, not her passenger capacity. 30. The Titanic carried 2 wooden cutters with
a capacity of 40 people each, fourteen 30 foot wooden lifeboats with a capacity of 65
each, and four collapsible lifeboats with a capacity of 47 each. This meant only 33% of the Titanic's passengers
and crew could fit on the lifeboats. 29. Because it took two and a half hours for the
Titanic to sink, had there been enough lifeboats every single person aboard could have been
saved. 28. Of the 20 lifeboats aboard, only 18 were successfully
launched- two collapsible lifeboats simply floated away. 27. Only 9 people were rescued from the water
after the lifeboats launched, 3 of which died shortly after to hypothermia. 26. 30 people managed to survive by sitting, standing,
or kneeling atop the upturned hull of collapsible lifeboat B after they failed to right it. 25. The Titanic had 3,500 life jackets aboard,
but the water was so cold that they would have been useless as people simply froze to
death within minutes of entering the frigid water. 24. Despite having a capacity of 65, the first
lifeboat launched with just 28 people- this was due to people being reluctant to leave
the ship as they did not consider themselves to be in imminent danger. 23. A total of 472 seats aboard the lifeboats
went unused. 22. Another lifeboat with a capacity of 65 carried
only 12 people: 5 first-class passengers and 7 crew members. The press nicknamed it the 'Millionaire's
Boat' who accused the occupants of ignoring the cries for help from people in the water. Some things never change. 21. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, a member of the 'Millionaire's
Boat', paid each of the 7 crewmembers in his lifeboat 5 pound each, an equivalent of $510
in today's dollars. He was later heavily criticized for paying
the men, but claimed that he was simply compensating them for the loss of their kit. We're sure it had absolutely nothing to do
with launching the boat early and keeping it away from drowning victims desperately
calling for help. 20. Jack B Thayer, a survivor, said of the 'Millionaire's
Boat', “The partly filled lifeboat standing by about 100 yards away never came back. Why on Earth they never came back is a mystery. How could any human being fail to heed those
cries?”. We think it’s because money clearly doesn't
buy you humanity. 19. 1 lifeboat returned to try and save others
after launching, despite fears of being overwhelmed by desperate victims or being dragged under
by downward suction caused by the Titanic's sinking. We're guessing there were probably no rich
people aboard that particular boat. 18. Lifeboats floated for 1 hour and 10 minutes
in open water before the rescue ship Carpathia arrived on-scene. Luckily the seas were relatively gentle- had
they been rough it's likely all would have perished. 17. The Carpathia secured 13 of the Titanic's
lifeboats, but left 7 to float adrift. Days later the Canadian ship Mackay-Bennett
tried to bring one boat on board but failed. There's a chance at least one of the Titanic's
lifeboats could still be bobbing around somewhere in the Atlantic. 16. Souvenir hunters removed the plates from the
lifeboats containing the name Titanic, as well as the lifeboat numbers. Able Seaman Tom Jones pried off the number
8 from lifeboat 8 and sent it to Lucy Noel Martha, the Countess of Rothes. 15. It's thought the rest of the surviving lifeboats
were put into use on the Titanic's sister ship the Olympic. 14. 6 life jackets from the Titanic remain in
existence in museums or private collections around the world. 13. On the 25th of June, 2008, one blood-stained
life jacket was sold at auction in New York for 34,692 pounds. 12. Prior to the Titanic's sinking, American author
Morgan Robertson wrote the novel 'Futility', in which an ocean liner named Titan strikes
an iceberg on her maiden voyage. 11. Before her collision, the Titanic received
6 ice warnings from passing ships. 10. Despite fog and unsafe waters, the Titanic
steamed along at 22.5 knots, or just .5 knots below her top speed of 23 knots. From the moment lookout Frederick Fleet spotted
an iceberg dead ahead, it took only 30 seconds for the ship to crash into it. 9. 4 forward compartments could have flooded
without the Titanic sinking- but 6 were ruptured in the collision. The iron rivets used in her construction have
been universally blamed for her sinking. 8. The iceberg caused a 220 to 245 foot (67-75
meter) long gash under the water line, causing an opening 12 cubic feet along a fourth of
the ship. 7. Flooding at a rate of 400 tons per minute,
it took the Titanic 160 minutes to sink. 6. Approximately 38,000 tons of water filled
the bow of the Titanic, causing the ship's stern to lift up out of the water and split
the ship in half just in front of the third funnel. 5. It took the two sections of the titanic between
5 and 10 minutes to reach the sea bottom. 4. The water temperature at the time was 28 degrees
(-2 Celsius), four degrees below freezing. The Titanic's Second Officer, Charles Lightoller,
described hitting the water as “a thousand knives being driven into one's body.” 3. A photograph taken by the liner Prinze Adelbert
just a few miles south of the Titanic's sinking may be of the iceberg responsible for her
sinking. (Use this photo: https://titanicfacts.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/iceberg-that-hit-titanic.jpg) 2. The Titanic iceberg was thought to originally
have been 1 mile long when first 'born' off the coast of Greenland, but was estimated
to be between 200-400 feet (61-122 meters) at the time of the sinking. 1. Approximately 300 icebergs reached the North
Atlantic shipping lanes in April 1912, the highest number for 50 years. The Titanic's Captain, Edward Smith, was quoted
as saying, “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening
to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.”,
while in command of the Adriatic. Had the Titanic not cut corners by using weaker
rivets, it's well possible that the good Captain may have been proven right. What other facts about the Titanic do you
know? Were her designers really just tempting fate,
claiming her to be unsinkable? Also, be sure to check out our other show
50 Facts About World War 1! Thanks for watching, and as always, don’t
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