- There are still so many things to learn and discover about the Titanic.
Do you know all there is about the infamous sunken ship? Like how many bathtubs there were for the 706 third-class passengers?
- Macy’s Department Store owners, Ida and Isidor Straus, were on board Titanic. Ida refused a lifeboat without Isidor and in the end, the died together that night.
- A 2012 expedition turned up 100,000+ photos of the ship’s wreck, thanks to the underwater robots.
- Titanic’s debris field is about 3-5 miles in size.
- Up to 100,000 people or one-third the population of Belfast at the time, attended Titanic’s launch on May 31st, 1911.
- Titanic’s launch took just over 1 minute. Did you know this about the infamous sunken ship?
- There were about 40,000 fresh eggs on the ship or roughly 3,333 dozens
of eggs, most of which went down with the ship. - Milton Hershey of Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar was supposed to be on the Titanic but due to a business obligation, was not.
- There were only two bathtubs for all of the 706 third-class passengers.
- It cost between 3 and 8 pounds to travel on the Titanic.
- It took over seven decades to find the ruins of Titanic when it was finally found in 1985. Ultimately, it was a robot submarine that found the wreck.
- The Titanic was able to carry 64 lifeboats but had only 20 onboard.
- The iceberg created a 300-foot gash in the hull of the boat.
- Out of 908 crew members on board, there were only 23 females. 20 female crew members survived the crash. Wow, what a wonderful fact about the fated night and the infamous sunken ship!
- Of the 885 male crew members on the ship, 693 went down with the ship.
- There were three feature films made about the Titanic. One in 1953, one in 1958 and James Cameron’s in 1997.
- Out of the 2,223 people on Titanic, 1,517 did not survive.
- Captain Edward Smith cancelled a lifeboat drill that was scheduled the day of the crash. We will never know the reason why. This is a sad fact about the infamous sunken ship.
- Only three of the four funnels on Titanic worked to eject soot, while the other was for ventilation and adding that aesthetic to the ship.
- There was a heated swimming pool that first-class passengers had access to.
- First-class passengers got first-class treatment like Parisian cafe?s,
relaxing tea gardens, lush libraries, and playing tennis in a squash court and more. - It took just over two years to build Titanic and it was officially done after 26 months.
- There were 3 million rivets used to build the 26,000 ton hull of Titanic. What a truly wild facts about the infamous sunken ship.
- Only a few hundred bodies were recovered after the crash, totaling 306 people.
- The chief baker of Titanic was rescued after two hours of treading water. According to him, the mass amounts of whiskey he drank before Titanic went down allowed him to stay warm in the subfreezing water.
- Only 705 of the 2,223 passengers and crew made it alive from the waters where Titanic sank.
- 61% of passengers who survived were first-class and 25% of third-class passengers survived.
- It was speculated that the Titanic would cost over $200 million to build today.
- James Cameron’s Titanic grossed over $2.2 billion dollars worldwide.
- The official name of the Titanic was the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic or as we know it, the RMS Titanic.
- Nearly 200 other ships, along with the Titanic, were designated as royal mail steamers.
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