Top 10 Bone-Chilling Titanic Facts

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Top 10 Titanic facts that will shock you! Enjoy these facts about the Titanic. April 15, 1912. All was calm aboard the RMS Titanic, and most passengers had already turned in for the night. Little did they know that the ship of dreams would become an underwater grave. This is Paul DuVall, and you’re watching Top 10 Bone-Chilling Titanic Facts. Now here are 10 facts about the Titanic.

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Number 10. Fred Fleet, one of the Titanic survivors, believed the Titanic could have completely avoided the iceberg had the binoculars been used instead of stowed away in an officer’s locker.

Number 9. Ramon Artagaveytia survived the sinking of the ship America in 1871. He overcame his fear of sailing and decided to sail on the Titanic. According to Ramon, it was the new system of communication, the wireless telegraph that alleviated his fear. After all, the Titanic had the ability to communicate instantly with the world. Unfortunately, he was found among the dead a week after the disaster.

Number 8. After the Titanic sank, families of the ship’s band members had quite a difficult time collecting death benefits. The White Star Line wouldn’t pay because the band members were contracted employees. The talent agency wouldn’t pay because they were listed as Second Class Passengers, and they felt the Cruise Line should pay. In fact, some of the family members received a bill from the talent agency for the uniform the musicians were forced to buy as members of the Titanic band!

Number 7. The morning before the disaster, a lifeboat drill was scheduled for the crew to prepare themselves for what they hoped would be an emergency situation they’d never encounter. However, the drill was inexplicably canceled by Captain Edward John Smith himself. It is still not known exactly why he decided to call off the lifeboat drill.

Number 6. One ship, the Californian, was even closer to the Titanic than the Carpathia was. The Californian saw the flares sent up from the Titanic. Regrettably, the captain of the Californian chose to ignore the distress signals, and the ship’s wireless operator had already gone to bed. Had the Californian chosen to investigate the flares, many more lives could have been saved.

Number 5. Violet Constance Jessop was an ocean liner stewardess and nurse who survived the accident aboard the Olympic, the sinking of the Titanic, and the sinking of the Britannic when it hit an underwater mine. Interestingly, all three of these ships were sister ships, and all three encountered major disasters in the same decade. According to Violet, the one thing she missed most immediately following the Titanic disaster was her toothbrush.

Number 4. While conditions on the Titanic were quite lavish for the rich, they were not so nice for the poor. The 700 third-class, or steerage passengers as they were also called, only had two bathrooms, and four passengers were assigned to a room. Despite this, the Titanic’s third-class accommodations were actually nicer than the typical living conditions that the third-class passengers were accustomed to at home. The cabins had running water and electricity, and the steerage passengers were provided with meals.

Number 3. Dorothy Gibson, an American movie star, was undoubtedly one of the more famous passengers on the Titanic and was also one of the survivors. One month after the disaster, Dorothy starred in a silent film called Saved from the Titanic, which was based on her experiences on the night the Titanic sank. She even wore the same clothes she had worn aboard the Titanic that night – a white silk evening dress topped with a cardigan and polo coat.

Number 2. Unfortunately, because the Titanic is over 2 miles down, it is very difficult or impossible to preserve. Due to rust and iron eating bacteria, the wreck of the Titanic will be destroyed within 20 years and will soon be nothing more than a rust stain at the bottom of the Atlantic. On the positive side, more of the interior will become accessible as the outer structure disappears. This will allow researchers to gather more information on the ship before it is completely obliterated.

Number 1. Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a novel was written by Morgan Robertson called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan. The details of this fictitious ship named Titan were uncannily similar to the Titanic. Triple screw propellers – check. Practically unsinkable – check. Shortage of lifeboats – check. Struck an iceberg on the starboard side on an April night in the North Atlantic 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland – check, check. Sank with more than half of the passengers drowning. Checkmate.

What would your final words have been if you sank with the Titanic? Dive down to the comments section and let me know.

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