10 Interesting Facts About Titanic

The tragedy of titanic is one of the greatest cataclysms in human history. It brought pain and at the other side, it also brought inspiration for James Cameron to produce one of the most expensive and most successful movies in Hollywood, Titanic .Factually, The sink of titanic attracts many fans and most of them want to know real facts related to the tragedy. Here, those facts are what we are going to talk. These are 10 interesting facts about titanic:

Titanic Vessel

1. In movie Titanic, we can find one dialogue stated Titanic is unsinkable. In the real event, no one claim this statement. Word “unsinkable titanic” came from one review on Shipbuilder magazine in 1911, which said that” once the watertight doors locked, the vessel is “practically unsinkable”

2. What is R.M.S stands for? 
The complete name of Titanic was R.M.S Titanic. R M S title for the Titanic means Royal Mail steamer. Royal Mail steamer means the vessel under protection of His majesty’s postal agencies. If one attacks Titanic, that person made a problem with British Navy.

3. Titanic tragedy casualties

Titanic Casualties on Media

Aboard titanic, there were two dogs and no cat. Those 2 dogs were not among 1517 people who perished to the freezing sea of the Atlantic. After rescue team arrived, only 306 bodies found.

4. Titanic was nearly as high as Empire state building if the building lay or 882 feet/268 meters long. Titanic was capable to accommodate 3547 passengers and crew, it ate 825 tons of coal per day when active, took 3 years to construct it and total cost to construct the vessel was $7.5 million.

5. Titanic lifeboats fact: 
Titanic carried 20 lifeboats that time. If all lifeboats were full, it was enough to save 1,178 out of 2223 total passengers on the manifest. During the accident, only first class passenger who filled the lifeboats and some of the lifeboats only carried half of the full capacity. Total survivors 706 people (Data according to Wikipedia)

6. Titanic Ticket

Titanic tickets

Titanic has three different classes and each class has different ticket price. 3rd class ticket was $30, 2nd class ticket was $1,750 and the 1st class ticket was $4,350

7. on that time, Titanic was the only vessel that had heated swimming pool and the amazing thing was the crowd nest did not complete with a binocular. One standard binocular could be sufficient to cancel titanic disaster.

8.Titanic Whistle

Titanic Whistle

In 1912, Titanic’s whistle was the biggest and one of the loudest whistles in the world. The whistle’s signals could be located 11 miles away. Sadly, it was not loud enough to crack the iceberg ahead or to call other vessel near the wreckage location

9. How long until titanic completely submerged?

Titanic wreckage

Titanic completely vanished from the surface of Atlantic 2,4 hours after the iceberg holed the right side of the vessel. Once completely out of sight, only took 15 minutes for the titanic to reach the dark floor of Atlantic eternally.

10. Titanic was launched without breaking champagne, Titanic top speed was 20-23 knots, the sinking speed of titanic was about 10 miles per hour, and the convict of the accident was “fairly” small iceberg. The iceberg was 100 feet high and the lower part extended around 500 feet below.

Iceberg account to Titanic tragedy

The 9-10th point above is our last titanic facts and if you don’t know when was titanic sunk? The answer is April 14, 1912. Yesterday was the 99th year’s commemoration of the tragedy.