Passing through the Panama Canal. The people in the foreground were standing on the front of the ship on which I was riding. |
The Titanic sitting in Southampton waiting to set sail. |
Representation of the Titanic in front of a modern day cruise ship. |
- There were supposed to be 48 lifeboats in the original design, but because all those lifeboats made the ship look crowded, it was decided to change it to 16 lifeboats and the lifeboat drill for the passengers was cancelled before they sailed.
- The ship featured watertight dividing walls (bulkheads) which could be operated by a switch in the bridge. That is why the ship was said to be "practically unsinkable. There was one big flaw though; the walls didn't reach the ceiling so water could flow from one room into the next. It wouldn't have sunk if the walls had reached the top.
- Titanic's sister ship, The Olympic, happened to be docked for repairs and some of her officers were placed on the Titanic, forcing other officers of the Titanic to leave the ship. One such officer accidentally took the key to the binocular locker leaving them without the binoculars.
- The iceberg they struck was four times the size of the Titanic.
- The ship's baker was so drunk on whiskey, but he managed to tread water for two hours.
- The last survivor of the disaster was Millivina Dean who died in 2009 at the age of 97.
- The wreck was found in 1985 about 2 miles below the surface of the water with the bow of the ship buried 18 meters into the sea bed.
- The musicians on board were required to know a book of 352 songs which were played for the first-class guests.
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