Titanic interesting facts about the ship. Could have saved a thousand more people
On Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. After the release of the 1997 film, almost all of humanity knew the basic details about this tragedy. But several Interesting Facts were not mentioned in the film. At the time of construction, the Titanic was the largest of the ships. While most companies built their boats for speed, the owners of the Titanic wanted to build a ship for luxury. Trucks did not yet exist at that time, so it took twenty horses to deliver just one anchor. Over 14,000 people worked on the ship with a 50-hour work week to complete on time. I bring to your attention 13 interesting facts about the Titanic that you might not know.
Dimensions
The Titanic was much smaller than most modern cruise ships. Royal Caribbean International owns the largest ship in the world, the Charm of the Seas. The Charm was built in 2008 and can accommodate up to 6,300 people, while the Titanic only had a capacity of 2,435. Nearly twice the performance of the Allure of the Seas is about twice that of the Titanic, including length, weight, and even the number of crew members.
rescue boats
When the Titanic was designed, the project included 64 lifeboats. This number was more than enough to save all crew members and passengers on board. Unfortunately, only a part of the lifeboats were installed on the ship. It seemed to the owners that the boats would spoil the view and annoy the passengers, so only 20 boats were installed. As a result, even these boats were not completely filled due to the resulting panic. Almost all the men remained on the deck of the sinking ship, as the “women and children first” rule was in effect.
Pollution
Cruise ships pollute the water and the atmosphere, and the Titanic was no exception. 29 boilers continuously burned coal to provide electricity and propel giant ship. 825 tons of coal were used in just one day, while releasing almost 100 tons of ash into the atmosphere.
Ritz interior
No, the Titanic didn't exactly replicate the interior of the Ritz Hotel in London, but the designers were inspired by it. The five-star hotel was one of the most luxurious places in London at the time of the creation of the Titanic, and remains so to this day. The luxury cruise ship had all the facilities for a royal holiday on board, including a gym for first-class passengers and an animal corner for their pets.
Construction casualties
It took 26 months to build the Titanic. During this time, eight workers died and 246 injuries were reported. The very first victim was Samuel Scott, a fifteen-year-old teenager. He died as a result of a skull fracture, but the exact causes were carefully concealed by his employer. Even a tombstone in the Belfast Cemetery was not put up for him until almost 100 years after his death.
Movie
The Titanic was launched on April 15, 1912 at a cost of nearly seven and a half million dollars. The actual amount adjusted for inflation would be approximately $166 million in current currency. In 1997, the most popular Titanic movie was made for $200,000,000. Thus, making and filming a movie was more expensive than the cost of building a ship.
sisters
The Titanic was one of a trio of ships of the same type. The other two ships are Olympic and Britannic. The Olympic was the first of three ships and set sail on June 14, 1911 (to New York). In September of the same year, the Olympic collided with the cruiser and began to repair. After the Titanic disaster, the government issued new requirements for safety systems on cruise ships. The third ship of the same type (Britanic) stumbled upon a mine on November 21, 1916 and sank.
Bottle
Many believe that the rite of baptism is a great way to protect yourself from adversity and failure. Baptism is also practiced for courts, and this rite has been practiced for more than five thousand years. The creators of the three cruise ships did not believe in the ceremony, and held it only for the Titanic. The problem was that the bottle of champagne didn't break when it hit the side of the ship. Many still believe that it was an unsuccessful baptism that caused the disaster.
A curse
It is difficult to determine the origins of certain rumors, especially when it comes to curses. After the Titanic disaster, people began to talk about the curse of the people who died during the construction. Others spoke of the famous Hope Diamond, which was on board during the voyage. Dozens of other reasons were given, each of which is original in its own way.
The Book of Titan
Morgan Robertson wrote his Titanic Wreck in 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The book is set on a ship called the Titan, which also hit an iceberg in April, just like the Titanic did fourteen years after the book's release. Most people think that the author was a psychic, since there were so many coincidences between the book and the disaster. There were almost the same number of people in the book, and there were still not enough boats for everyone.
Moon
We all know that the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, but there is a possibility that the moon has something to do with it. On the night of the crash, the Moon was terribly close to the Earth. According to scientists, the light of the moon could interfere with the timely detection of the iceberg. Perhaps it was this unusual event that caused the tragic event.
The rescue
Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985 using two submarines. The ship has been submerged for over 100 years, and researchers are now trying to save the disintegrating ship from multiple threats, including divers who want to touch it themselves. great history. Ballard and his team are working hard to protect and preserve the Titanic for years to come.
Iceberg
On a fateful night, a message was sent to the ship, warning of the iceberg. The message was not marked with high importance, so the captain simply did not see it. Iceberg was not too big size and most of it was hidden under water. The sea was very calm, which also prevented the timely discovery of the iceberg. The Titanic was traveling at 22.5 knots (the equivalent of 29 miles per hour) when it struck a giant mountain of ice.
The Titanic was a great ship brought to its knees by an iceberg. This is a ship that few people on Earth have not heard of - a fairy tale from life, retold next generations in order for us to learn from this case a lesson. Don't set the bar too high or you might get hurt. Although we all know about the tragedy of the Titanic, there are many small amazing facts about the great ship, which not everyone knows about. And, as in other tragedies of mankind, the facts show not only the cynical side, but also the reverence and compassion of people. Below are ten little-known and surprising facts about the Titanic...
1.Silent movie star survived and profited from the tragedy
Dorothy Gibson was well known in her day. The silent film star, along with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, was a first-class passenger on the Titanic. She became popular with her comedic roles in Miss Pretender (1911) and Love Can Do (1912). But unlike the 1,502 people who died on the ship, Gibson survived and told her story. And not only told, but also starred in her story in leading role. Filming of Survivors of the Titanic began just 5 days after the Titanic sank. It was a wildly successful silent film and the first of many Titanic hits (though the film was destroyed in a fire in 1914). Gibson even wore the same clothes she wore on the ship at the time of the tragedy - a dress, sweater, gloves, and black pumps.
Over time, the shadow of the 20th century, of course, covered Gibson. After a relatively short film career, she moved to Europe. Although at first she was a supporter of the Nazis, by 1944 she had renounced the Third Reich. Her subsequent arrest by the Nazis and a brief imprisonment in San Vittore led to her death two years later, at the age of 56, as a result of a heart attack.
2.The captain of the ship is not used to operating steamboats.
At the time of the Titanic's departure, Captain Edward John Smith had already spent 37 years on ships, and planned to retire after the end of the Titanic's voyage. He worked for the White Star Line for 28 years, but in truth, Smith was not the best choice to manage the court. Most Smith spent his career operating sailing ships, and only occasionally had to deal with steamers. At the age of 62, the old sailor could no longer learn anything new, and his lack of experience showed up the moment he ordered the crew to save top speed in an area famous for its icebergs... and we all know how it ended. To his credit, the captain did not leave his ship, but his last hours on board remain a mystery. Many eyewitnesses say that the captain lost confidence in himself and was deeply shaken by the situation.
3.The first to be saved are women, children and ... dogs
It is well known that not only were there not enough lifeboats on the Titanic to save all the passengers, but those lifeboats that were were not full enough when they were launched (the first lifeboat in this case was used irrationally - it had only seven crew members and five passengers, for a total of 12 people, although about 40 people could fit in it). However, little known is the fact that among the 713 survivors, there were also three dogs - two Pomeranians and one Pekingese. The passengers of the ship were twelve dogs, but only three of them escaped in lifeboats.
4.B the nearest ships could save hundreds of passengers
While the Titanic was sinking, standard distress signals were transmitted. But no one answered them until it was too late. Few people know that someone could respond to these signals. Namely, the captain of the ship Californian (SS Californian). The Californian was only 15 to 25 kilometers from the Titanic wreck, but his crew failed to respond to the mysterious lights in the night sky (which were flares launched from the Titanic). A member of the Californian crew woke the captain, but he went back to sleep, citing that the radio operator had already rested after his watch (the reason why the distress signals were not heard on the ship).
Another ship, Samson, a 250 ton (Samson) Norwegian schooner was even closer to the crash site - only 8-12 kilometers away. However, some believe that Samson would not have responded to the signals, whatever they were, for the simple reason that they were engaged in illegal fishing. Both ships were closer than the Carpathia, the ship that then rescued the Titanic survivors.
5.Conditions on the ship were far from luxurious.
Even though they were surrounded by water, there was not enough water on the ship itself. Long before the days when high-pressure showers came into use, people had to use the good old baths. And although sharing a bath with others was something common in those days, third-class passengers shared two baths - one for men, the other for women, for 700 people. Yes, you heard right. 700 people for two baths. Waiting for your turn was not easy.
6. A real hero
Captain Second Rank Charles Herbert Lightoller was the most senior officer to survive the sinking of the Titanic. Lightoller took command of the capsized rescue boat, quelled the panic, and commanded the thirty survivors on the boat, making sure they were safely transferred aboard the rescue ship Carpathia. Lightoller was not only the hero of the Titanic. He served in the British Navy during World War I and World War II and was involved in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk.
On the other hand, Douglas Spedden was only 6 years old when his nanny took him off the Titanic to the lifeboat. Despite the fact that the boy survived, only three years later he died. He was hit by a car in one of the first traffic accidents in Maine, USA.
7. "Please accept our condolences on tragic death your son, here's the bill for you"
Legend has it that all eight members of the Titanic men's band died in the shipwreck while still playing their instruments. However, only three bodies of musicians were found, including John Hume Law. Just two weeks after tragic events, Lowe's father received a shocking bill from C.W. & F.N. Black, an employment agency from Liverpool, England, who hired the band. The bill was for 5 shillings and 4d, the price of Lowe's son's uniform. In contrast, a month after the shipwreck at the Apollo Club in Brooklyn, New York, a concert was held in honor of the dead musicians. The proceeds were donated to the families of the victims.
8.The Titanic may be widely known now, but at that time few people knew about it.
Contrary to what we are shown in the movies, the White Star Line never claimed that the Titanic was "unsinkable". In fact, apparently, no one cared before the first voyage of the Titanic. Olympic, the twin brother of the Titanic, attracted a lot more attention when he made the voyage from Southampton to New York in 1911. In fact, there isn't even footage of the Titanic leaving the shores of the UK, and when the news outlets realized they didn't have photos to report on the tragedy, they had to use images of the Olympic and erase its name.
9.The Titanic was used by the Nazis as a PR stunt.
About thirty years after the sinking of the Titanic, the propaganda wing of the National Socialist German Workers' Party released The Nazi Titanic, created by none other than Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In a strange interpretation of facts, the Nazi Titanic tells the story of a ship trying to cross Atlantic Ocean in record time to boost the share price of the White Star Line. While the real lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee, both British, spotted the iceberg, in the Nazi Titanic the man who could have saved the ship from disaster was, of course, a German officer whose warning was ignored.
Further, in real life, J Bruce Ismay (English), chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, was condemned in the international press for taking one of the lifeboats for himself. In Goebbels' retelling, he was able to exaggerate even that by presenting Ismay as a Jewish businessman who forced the captain (a German, of course) to ram an iceberg and effectively killed everyone on board (in James Cameron's 1997 painting, Ismay did the same).
Ismay's story is one of the most twisted stories in all the film versions of the event. The real Ismay wasn't as selfish as he was shown to be. During a 1912 investigation by the British Chamber of Commerce under Lord Mersey, it was concluded that Ismay had in fact helped other passengers before he himself escaped in the last lifeboat. This dislike of Ismay seems to stem from the fact that he was the highest ranking White Star of the 713 survivors.
10.One key could save thousands of lives
What does the lookout need most? Not only good eyesight, but also good binoculars. And that's what forward looking Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee should have had. When second mate David Blair was thrown out of the crew a few days before the ship sailed, he forgot to give his replacement to the more experienced Henry Wilde, senior Olympic officer, the key to the safe in which the binoculars.
To top it off, when Fleet, a shipwrecked survivor, testified on official investigation, he said that if the lookouts had binoculars, they would have noticed the iceberg much earlier and most likely could have saved the ship from tragedy.
April 10, 1912 the legendary ship set off on its first and last voyage. The British transatlantic steamer was managed by Edward John Smith - one of the most experienced captains with 25 years of experience. On the Titanic there was everything your heart desires, even the newspaper of the same name, which published reports from the life of passengers. However, this giant ship had no future: on the night of April 14-15, it crashed.
Titanic sinking 57 hours before solar eclipse
According to astronomical observations, cataclysms often occur during such eclipses. In addition, scientists say that full moon could cause unusually strong tides that make it difficult to see the iceberg.
The rescue operation could be hindered optical illusion
Another version of why the iceberg went unnoticed and that the ships did not immediately come to the rescue is an optical illusion. Scientists believe that an unusual bending of light, a mirage, could be observed that night. A similar phenomenon was described by the commanders of several ships that were in the disaster area.
Several ships such as the Titanic can be built with money from the box office of the movie of the same name.
If you build a liner of this class today, then it will take about $ 400 million, while James Cameron's film "Titanic" in 1997 earned almost $ 2 billion.
Last lunch menu on Titanic sells for $88,000
The catastrophe was foretold in Morgan Andrew Robertson's book Futility or the Crash of the Titan.
An 1898 book by an American science fiction writer described the catastrophe of 1912: "The most big ship ever built, hits an iceberg in April and sinks." According to the story, due to a lack of lifeboats, more than half of the ship's passengers die in the North Atlantic.
100 years after the crash, the superliner "Balmoral" repeated the route of the "Titanic"
IN memorial cruise 1309 passengers departed - the same number as on the Titanic (excluding crew members). The atmosphere of the beginning of the 20th century was recreated on the ship. Relatives of the deceased passengers of the Titanic also went to the scene of the tragedy.
Two of the nine dogs that were on board the sunken liner escaped
These are dogs of the Pomeranian and Pekingese breeds.
Bacteria will eat Titanic within 15-20 years
Back in 1991, scientists discovered that the ship is inhabited by 24 species of invertebrates, 12 of which feed on metal and wood structures. But it is not they who cause particular harm to the liner, but a bacterium that was first discovered on the Titanic and named after him: Halomonas titanicae. This is a particularly aggressive species of bacteria that obtains energy from the process of iron oxidation. According to scientists, it literally "bites" into the metal. Experts came to the conclusion that within 15-20 years there will be no trace of the sunken liner.
The last surviving passenger on the Titanic died in 2009 at the age of 97.
At the time of the shipwreck, she was only 2.5 months old.
Almost 105 years have passed since the most famous shipwreck of the 20th century - the sinking of the Titanic passenger liner, but it seems that this story will give us reasons for conversations, investigations and inspire the creation of new films and books for a long time to come!
But I wonder if James Cameron will ever agree to reshoot romantic story about Jack and Rose, knowing that it wasn't an iceberg that separated them, but a fire?
Yes, this is exactly what the new year 2017 brought! British journalist Shenan Moloney, who has more than 30 years of experience in researching the Titanic shipwreck, confirmed the earlier version of experts that the cause of the death of the ship was a fire in the fuel storage! As indisputable evidence, Moloney cites the results of a study of photographs taken by the electrical engineers of the Titanic before it left the Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast!
Construction of the Titanic
So, the journalist reports that the fuel in the three-story storage began to burn even before the solemn departure of the liner from Southampton in April 1912. And even more, a team of 12 people tried to eliminate the fire for several weeks, but, alas, to no avail. The owners of the vessel were informed about what had happened, only they considered the cancellation of the first flight of the “unsinkable” a greater disaster for their reputation than the possible consequences. The officers were ordered not to disclose this information to passengers, but before leaving, turn the liner on the other side to the shore!
Ticket for the Titanic
According to Moloney, the ship's hull at the fire site heated up to over 1,000 degrees Celsius, making it 75% more brittle. And when, on the fifth day of the voyage, the Titanic collided with an iceberg, it could not withstand the load, and a huge hole formed on board!
Rescue of the passengers of the Titanic
Let's be honest, blame the iceberg like the only reason large-scale loss of life and the sinking of the ship would be unfair. Where big role negligent crime of the owners and a fire on the eve of sailing played in the disaster.
"Titanic" at the bottom
It is known that of the 2229 crew members and passengers of the Titanic, only 713 people were saved. Today, the wreckage of the liner rests at a depth of 3,750 meters in the waters of the North Atlantic, and the artifacts found by adventurers and researchers from time to time excite the memory and excitement of everyone who is not indifferent to this story.
Newspaper report on the sinking of the Titanic
But it turns out that not only the fire was an obvious reason not to sail ... When the Shipbuilder magazine called the Titanic a "virtually unsinkable ship", its owners seized on this phrase and everyone possible ways began to demonstrate his greatness and reliability.
Staircase under the dome in 1st class
First of all, they violated the tradition of the fleet and did not break a bottle of champagne on the side of the ship during the first voyage - the Titanic is unsinkable, which means that subsequent voyages will be just as successful!
And the troubles were not long in coming - the Titanic had not yet sailed far from Southampton and almost collided with the American liner New York. The first catastrophe was avoided almost at the last minute!
Two of the three propellers of the Titanic
Everything is known about the luxury of the interior and service on the Titanic. the smallest details. But only for one ticket to the first class in terms of modern money, passengers paid several tens of thousands of dollars! And no wonder avid divers dream of big score- on the first (and last) voyage of the Titanic, 10 millionaires went on a journey with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold and jewelry in safes.
Smoking room 1st class
It is impressive that "special cabins" were also intended for such important people, made in eleven different interior styles - from the Dutch and Adam style to the interior in the style of the French and French eras. Italian Renaissance! Interestingly, how many hours did the richest passengers of the ship manage to cover all 7 km of its promenade decks?
Bedroom 1st class (B-64)
But, how boring for the hundredth time to re-read about 40 tons of potatoes, 27 thousand bottles mineral water and beer, 35 thousand eggs and 44 tons of meat, oysters from Baltimore and cheeses from Europe on board the Titanic. Is it a matter of finding out the most impressive facts!
Captain Smith on deck
It is sad to admit that the cost of a ticket on the liner determined the chances of salvation. It is known that out of 143 first-class passengers, only 4 died. And only because they did not get into the lifeboat.
One of them was Ida Strauss. The woman did not want to part with her husband Isidor Strauss, co-owner of the largest Macy's supermarket chain.
Ida and Isidor Strauss
“I will not leave my husband. We have always been together, together we will die,
Ida declared, giving up her place in lifeboat No. 8 to the maid and giving her a fur coat, adding that she no longer needed it ...
Eyewitnesses claim that at the time of the death of the ship, the Strauss spouses were calm. They sat in armchairs on the deck, holding each other with one hand, and waved goodbye to the rescued with their free hand. By the way, the maid not only survived, but even outlived her owners by 40 years!
Orchestra musicians
Went to the bottom of the Titanic to the music. Before last minutes the orchestra stood on deck and played the church hymn "Nearer, Lord, to Thee." None of the musicians survived. Well, the body of the leader of the orchestra - 33-year-old violinist Wallace Hartley was found 10 days later with a violin tied to his chest!
Thanks to the inscription on the instrument, it was established that the violin was given to the musician by his fiancee Maria Robinson. Yes, the girl was found, but Maria nevertheless decided to say goodbye to the commemorative instrument and handed it over to the British Salvation Army. In 2013, the violin was sold at auction for $1.5 million!
The icy waters of the Atlantic forever carried away the body of Captain Edward John Smith. A naval officer with 30 years of experience never completed his first transatlantic voyage, tragically sinking to the bottom with the entire crew without trying to escape ...
Captain Edward John Smith
Did you know that the last Titanic passenger, Elizabeth Gladys Milvin Dean, died just 8 years ago at the age of 97? At the time of the sad event, she was only 2 months and 13 days old.
The last passenger on the Titanic
But even Jack Dawson, played by our favorite Leonardo DiCaprio, a real man! And let director Cameron arbitrarily prove that this character is a figment of his imagination, on the ship Titanic there was actually a collier named Jack Dawson, who, however, was not in love with Rose according to the script, but with a friend's sister.
But this is not all mysticism. Get ready for the most interesting - it is known that on April 15, 1972 (do you remember that the Titanic went down on the night of April 14-15?), the radio operator of the battleship Theodore Roosevelt received an SOS signal.
The signal from the Titanic, which received the passenger steamer "Carpathia"
So far not impressive? But he received a signal for help from the Titanic! Then the poor fellow thought that he had “moved with his mind” and hurried to the military archive, where he found that radiograms from the sunken ship had already been received in 1924, 1930, 1936 and 1942. But that's not all - last signal from the Titanic in April 1996, received the Canadian ship Quebec.
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic liner set off from Southampton Port on its first and last voyage, which collided with an iceberg 4 days later. About the tragedy that claimed the lives of almost 1496 people, we know largely thanks to the film, but let's get acquainted with real stories passengers on the Titanic.
The real cream of society gathered on the passenger deck of the Titanic: millionaires, actors and writers. Not everyone could afford to buy a class I ticket - the price was $60,000 at current prices.
3rd class passengers bought tickets for only $35 ($650 these days), so they were not allowed to go above the third deck. On the fateful night, the division into classes turned out to be more tangible than ever...
Bruce Ismay was one of the first people to jump into a lifeboat. CEO White Star Line, which owned the Titanic. The boat, designed for 40 people, set sail from the side with only twelve.
After the disaster, Ismay was accused of boarding a lifeboat, avoiding women and children, and of instructing the captain of the Titanic to increase speed, which led to the tragedy. The court acquitted him.
William Ernest Carter boarded the Titanic at Southampton with his wife, Lucy, and their two children, Lucy and William, and two dogs.
On the night of the disaster, he was at a party in the ship's restaurant. first class and after the collision, together with his comrades, he went on deck, where the boats were already being prepared. First, William put his daughter in boat number 4, but when it was his son's turn, they were in trouble.
Right in front of them, 13-year-old John Rison boarded the boat, after which the boarding officer ordered that teenage boys not be taken on board. Lucy Carter resourcefully threw her hat on her 11-year-old son and sat down with him.
When the boarding process was completed and the boat began to descend into the water, Carter himself quickly got into it, along with another passenger. It turned out to be the already mentioned Bruce Ismay.
Roberta Mahoney, 21, worked as a servant to the countess and sailed on the Titanic with her mistress in first class.
On board, she met a brave young steward from the ship's crew, and soon the young people fell in love with each other. When the Titanic began to sink, the steward rushed to Roberta's cabin, brought her to the boat deck and put her in the boat, giving her his life jacket.
He himself died, like many other crew members, and Robert was picked up by the Carpathia ship, on which she sailed to New York. Only there, in her coat pocket, did she find a badge with a star, which, at the moment of parting, the steward put in her pocket as a memory of himself.
Emily Richards sailed along with her two young sons, mother, brother and sister to her husband. At the time of the disaster, the woman was sleeping in the cabin with her children. They were awakened by the screams of their mother, who ran into the cabin after the collision.
The Richardses were miraculously able to climb through the window into the descending lifeboat No. 4. When the Titanic completely sank, the passengers of her boat managed to pull seven more people out of the icy water, two of whom, unfortunately, soon died of frostbite.
The famous American businessman Isidor Strauss and his wife Ida traveled in first class. The Strauss have been married for 40 years and have never parted.
When the ship's officer invited the family to board the boat, Isidore refused, deciding to give way to women and children, but Ida also followed him.
Instead of themselves, the Strauss put their maid in the boat. Isidore's body was identified by wedding ring, Ida's body was not found.
Two orchestras played on the Titanic: a quintet led by 33-year-old British violinist Wallace Hartley and an additional trio of musicians who were hired to give Café Parisien a continental touch.
Usually two members of the Titanic orchestra worked in different parts liner and in different time, but on the night of the death of the ship, all of them united into one orchestra.
One of the rescued passengers of the Titanic would write later: "Many things happened that night. heroic deeds, but none of them could compare to the feat of these few musicians, playing hour after hour, although the ship sank deeper and deeper, and the sea crept up to the place where they stood. The music they performed gave them the right to be included in the list of heroes of eternal glory."
Hartley's body was found two weeks after the sinking of the Titanic and sent to England. A violin was tied to his chest - a gift from the bride. Among the other members of the orchestra, there were no survivors ...
Four-year-old Michel and two-year-old Edmond traveled with their father, who died in the crash, and were considered "orphans of the Titanic" until their mother was found in France.
Michel died in 2001, he was the last male survivor on the Titanic.
Winnie Coates was on her way to New York with her two children. On the night of the disaster, she woke up from a strange noise, but decided to wait for the orders of the crew members. Her patience snapped, she rushed about the endless corridors of the ship for a long time, getting lost.
Suddenly met by a member of the crew directed her to the boats. She stumbled on a broken closed gate, but just at that moment another officer appeared, who saved Winnie and her children by giving them his life jacket.
As a result, Vinnie ended up on the deck, where she was boarding boat No. 2, on which, literally by a miracle, she managed to dive ..
Seven-year-old Eva Hart escaped the sinking Titanic with her mother, but her father died in the crash.
Ellen Walker believes she was conceived on the Titanic before it hit the iceberg. “It means a lot to me,” she admitted in an interview.
Her parents were 39-year-old Samuel Morley, the owner of a jewelry store in England, and 19-year-old Kate Phillips, one of his employees, fled to America from the man’s first wife, seeking to start new life.
Kate got into a lifeboat, Samuel jumped into the water after her, but did not know how to swim and drowned. “Mom spent 8 hours in a lifeboat,” Helen said. “She was in one nightgown but one of the sailors gave her his jumper."
Violet Constance Jessop. Before last moment the stewardess did not want to be hired on the Titanic, but her friends convinced her because they thought it would be a "wonderful experience".
Prior to that, on October 20, 1910, Violet became a stewardess of the transatlantic liner Olympic, which a year later collided with the cruiser due to unsuccessful maneuvering, but the girl managed to escape.
And from the Titanic, Violet escaped on a boat. During the First World War, the girl went to work as a nurse, and in 1916 she got on board the Britannic, which ... also went to the bottom! Two boats with a crew were pulled under the propeller of a sinking ship. 21 people died.
Among them could be Violet, who was sailing in one of the broken boats, but again luck was on her side: she managed to jump out of the boat and survived.
Fireman Arthur John Priest also survived a shipwreck not only on the Titanic, but also on the Olympic and Britannic (by the way, all three ships were the brainchild of the same company). Priest has 5 shipwrecks on his account.
On April 21, 1912, the New York Times published the story of Edward and Ethel Bean, who were on the Titanic in second class. After the crash, Edward helped his wife into the boat. But when the boat had already sailed, he saw that it was half empty, and threw himself into the water. Ethel dragged her husband into the boat.
Among the passengers of the Titanic was the famous tennis player Carl Behr and his lover Helen Newsom. After the disaster, the athlete ran to the cabin and brought the women to the boat deck.
The lovers were ready to say goodbye forever when the head of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, personally offered Beer a place on the boat. A year later, Karl and Helen got married, and later became the parents of three children.
Edward John Smith is the captain of the Titanic, who was very popular with both crew and passengers. At 2:13 am, just 10 minutes before the ship was completely submerged, Smith returned to the captain's bridge, where he decided to meet his death.
Second mate Charles Herbert Lightoller was one of the last to jump off the ship, narrowly avoiding being sucked into the ventilation shaft. He swam to the collapsible boat B, which was floating upside down: the Titanic's pipe that broke off and fell into the sea next to him drove the boat away from the sinking ship and allowed it to stay afloat.
American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim during the crash helped women and children immerse themselves in lifeboats. When asked to save himself, he replied: "We are dressed in our best clothes and are ready to die like gentlemen."
Benjamin died at the age of 46, his body was not found.
Thomas Andrews - first class passenger, Irish businessman and shipbuilder, was the designer of the Titanic ...
During the evacuation, Thomas helped the passengers into the boats. Last time he was seen in the first class smoking room near the fireplace, looking at a painting of Port Plymouth. His body was never found after the crash.
John Jacob and Madeleine Astor, the millionaire science fiction writer, were traveling first class with their young wife. Madeleine escaped on lifeboat number 4. The body of John Jacob was raised from the depths of the ocean 22 days after his death.
Colonel Archibald Gracie IV - American writer and an amateur historian who survived the sinking of the Titanic. Returning to New York, Gracie immediately began writing a book about his voyage.
It was she who became a real encyclopedia for historians and researchers of the disaster, thanks to the large number of names of stowaways and 1st class passengers who remained on the Titanic contained in it. Gracie's health was badly damaged by hypothermia and injuries, and he died in late 1912.
Margaret (Molly) Brown is an American socialite, philanthropist, and activist. Survived. When panic arose on the Titanic, Molly put people into lifeboats, but she herself refused to sit there.
"If the worst happens, I'll swim out," she said, until eventually someone pushed her into the number 6 lifeboat that made her famous.
After Molly organized the Titanic Survivors Relief Fund.
Millvina Dean was the last of the surviving passengers of the Titanic: she died on May 31, 2009 at the age of 97 in a nursing home in Ashurst, Hampshire, on the 98th anniversary of the liner's launch. .
Her ashes were scattered on October 24, 2009 in the port of Southampton, from where the Titanic began its first and last voyage. At the time of the death of the liner, she was two and a half months old.
