Today on the same date in 1912, the Titanic ship received six warnings of sea ice but unfortunately, her lookouts sighted the iceberg too late. Her sinking for almost three hours resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime marine disasters in history.
The Titanic was a luxury British steamship that sank in the sea. Titanic has inspired countless books, articles, films the 1997 “Titanic” movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Here are the few listed facts about the ship that everyone must read:
1) The Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.
2) After hitting the iceberg, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.
3) The Titanic could have been saved if it was not for a 30-second delay in giving the order to change course after spotting the iceberg.
4) Most lifeboats launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity.
5) The budget for the Movie “Titanic” was higher than the Titanic itself.
6) The Musicians of the Titanic kept playing music for hours as the ship sank.
7) Only 333 bodies of the Titanic’s victims were recovered, one in five of the over 1500 victims.
8) The Titanic’s fourth funnel was fake. It was added to make the ship look more powerful and symmetrical.
9) The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
10) Not a single engineer, out of the 30, made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
11) The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey somewhere around 1000 BCE.
12) It took 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic.
13) Kim II-Sung, the founder of North Korea, was born on the day the Titanic sank.
14) Coincidently, 14 years before the Titanic sank, an author wrote a book about an “unsinkable” ship called the “Titan” that crashed into an iceberg and sank.
15) The Titanic crew had no binoculars, which may have helped them see the iceberg. They were inside a locker and the key was lost.
