Some lesser known facts about Titanic
- Can you imagine it took almost 73 years to find the wreckage of Titanic. The below picture shows the dishes debris left from the wreck of the Titanic.
2. Titanic was as high as an eleven storey building and nearly four city blocks long, Titanic was one of the biggest ship in the world.
3. Millvina Dean (1912-2009) was only a few months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family. She was the youngest survivor of the wreck.
4. The approximate age of the first snowflakes that made up the glacier that produced the iceberg that hit the Titanic was 15,000 years old.
5. None of the 30 engineers on board survived. They stayed behind to keep the power on for as long as possible so that others could escape.
6. The Titanic was equipped to carry 64 lifeboats. It only carried 20. Most lifeboats were not even filled to capacity.
7. The richest passenger on board the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV. His net worth was around 85 million dollars, or two billion dollars today. Astor perished with the Titanic.
8. At $200 million, the movie costed more than the Titanic itself.
9. The shipbuilders Harland and Wolff insist that the Titanic was never advertised as an unsinkable ship. They claim that the 'unsinkable' myth was the result of people's interpretations of articles in the Irish News and the Shipbuilder magazine. They also claim that the myth grew after the disaster.
10. The first class tickets ranged enormously in price, from $150 (about $1700 today) for a simple berth, up to $4350 ($50,000) for one of the two Parlour suites. Second class tickets were $60 (around $700) and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170 - £460).
11. The Titanic hitting the iceberg was not the only reason of it’s sinking.
To be clear a 30 feet long mark is seen on the ship, directly in front of the coal bunker room. The area where the mark is located is also the area where the ship hit the iceberg. Thus this make experts believe that the fire must have damaged the area, leading the iceberg to cause further damage.
12. Jack and Rose were just the fictional characters but their story is partially inspired by a real life couple named Henry Samuel Morley and Kate Florence Phillips.
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