- The Titanic and it's sinking are very intriguing and we're still learning more all the time.
Do you know all of these Titanic facts? There are some that may surprise you, like do you know how many people went into the first lifeboat?
- John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiest man onboard with an estimated worth of $85 million dollars at the time, worth more than $2 billion today.
- This vessel burned a reported 825 tons of coal per day in 159 furnaces that heated 29 boilers.
- First-class passengers received a music book containing 352 songs all of
which could be played upon request while they were on the boat. - There were 13 couples on the Titanic that were honeymooning. Interesting fact to note is that newlywed couples were given preference in the lifeboats.
- The youngest passenger on the Titanic was two month old Millvina Dean. She was the longest survivor to live from the wreck, but died at 97 years old in 2009.
- Only 28 people boarded the first lifeboat. This goes down as one of the worst of the Titanic facts?
- Titanic’s ship plan sold for in 2011 for $336,000.
- It would cost an estimated $183.4 million dollars to replicate the Titanic today.
- American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim and his valet, Victor Giglio, were decked out to the nines the night of the sinking. Guggenheim reportedly said, “We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.”
- There’s a rust-eating bacteria slowly eating away at the ship called Halomonas titanicae.
- Due to atmospheric conditions on the night of the sinking, there was thought to be what’s known as refraction. This could be why the iceberg wasn’t spotted until it was too close to go around it.
- Over half the people on board could have survived if all of the space available on the lifeboats was used. Wow, that’s quite the fact.
- Everyday on the Titanic, 14,000 gallons of drinking water were consumed.
- It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for the Titanic to sink. This is probably one of the better known Titanic facts.
- 6,000 items were received from the wreckage.
- There were two dogs that were rescued from the ship, a Pomeranian and a Pekinese. (Seven dogs died when the Titanic sank.)
- Californian Captain Stanley Lord testified that his ship was 19 to 21 miles from the Titanic when it struck the iceberg.
- The last meal served and eaten on the Titanic was an 11-course dinner. There were hors d’oeuvres like oysters, main courses like filet mignon, and desserts including chocolate and vanilla eclairs.
- Musicians played for more than two hours as the ship went down.
- Two ship workers died in the making of the ship, Samuel Joseph Scott, 15, fell from a ladder and fatally fractured his skull and James Dobbins was squished under timber that fell when the ship was transported from where it was built to where it was launched.
- The temperature of the sea water that night was below freezing when the ship sank, at about 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The human body can typically survive
about 45 minutes in freezing water. - There was an hour between the crash between the iceberg and the Titanic and when they released the first lifeboat into the water.
- The ship was just under 900 feet long, the biggest vessel of its time. The largest cruise ship today is about 1,200 feet long.
- The entire iceberg that took out the Titanic was said to be between 200 and 400 feet long. This is sad as one of the Titanic facts, that’s not even that big of an iceberg!!
- Edmond and Michel Navratil were the only children to survive the Titanic without a parent. They were two years apart in age and nicknamed the “Titanic Orphans.”
- There were 20,000 bottles of beer, 1,000 bottles of wine and 8,000 cigars on board, all of which was available to the first-class passengers.
- There were six iceberg warnings before the Titanic fatally crashed into the iceberg.
- The RMS Carpathia transported the 700-plus survivors of the ship to New York and were met by 40,000 people.
- The Titanic’s last lunch menu sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Bought by a private collector on Sept. 30, 2015, he paid $88,000 regarding the online auction. The collector paid $18,000 more than the initial maximum price.
- The Titanic now lies 2.5 miles beneath the surface of the ocean, about 370
miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. There’s about 2,000 feet between the bow and the stern at the bottom of the ocean. - It was a swift 3 seconds between the iceberg being seen and the collision.
- The ship’s main anchor weighed 16 tons, or more than 30,000 pounds.
Which of these Titanic facts surprised you? Tell me all about it in the comments!