The Titanic was built to be the largest, most modern and most luxurious ship of the nineteenth century. But on her maiden voyage, Titanic met with tragedy and sank to the bottom of the ocean, creating the deadliest maritime accident in history.
Here are some facts you might not know about the Titanic
1. The wreckage of the broken ship was found on September 1, 1985, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
2. Although the third class cabins on the Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world at the time, were far superior to the accommodations on a normal ship in every way, they were still quite primitive. The total number of third class passengers ranged from 700 to 1000, and they had to share two bathtubs for the trip.
3. On board there are 20,000 bottles of beer, 1,500 bottles of wine and 8,000 cigars. – Everything for first class passengers.
4. It took the Titanic about 2 hours and 2 minutes to completely sink into the sea after the collision with the iceberg, which coincides with the broadcast time of the movie “Titanic 1997” if the present day scenes and the credits are cut.
5. It took only 37 seconds from the moment the glacier was visible to the time of impact.
6. The Titanic may have been saved. Even so, the ship’s communication line was delayed by 30 seconds, preventing the captain from changing course.
7. Charles Joughin the baker on board, fell into the water for two hours but survived. Due to heavy alcohol consumption, he claimed not to feel cold.
8. Millvina Dean was only two months old when the ship sank in 1912. She was saved after being wrapped in a sack and hoisted into a lifeboat. Milvina was the last survivor of the Titanic, who died in 2009 at the age of 97.
9. The total items lost in the disaster, including jewelry and cash, were worth approximately $6 million.
10. The production cost of the movie “Titanic” is 200 million dollars, while the actual construction cost of the Titanic is 7.5 million dollars.
11. There was another movie about the Titanic disaster before the successful movie “Titanic” in 1997. “Saved from the Titanic” was released 29 days after the sinking of the ship. An actress who lived through the aforementioned disaster was the main role.
12. According to the book Titanic Love Stories, at least 13 honeymoon couples were on the Titanic.
13. The ship’s crew relied solely on their eyesight because the binoculars were locked inside a cabinet where no one could find the keys. The ship’s observers – Frederick Fleet and Reginald Robinson Lee were not allowed to use binoculars to spot the iceberg during the voyage.
14. The richest man on the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV, an American businessman and investor. Astor was born into a wealthy family and had a net worth of approximately $87 million at the time of his death, equivalent to over $2 billion in today’s currency.
