12 Interesting Facts About The Titanic  

I have read many books on the subject of the Titanic. There was over 100 ships out on the Atlantic that evening and my grandfather was on one of them as an aprentice from England.

Although this disaster happened almost 100 years ago, interest in the ship still rides high possibly due to the movie (although the movie took many liberties, it told the basic story). There was another Canadian disaster that was overshadowed by the wreck of the Titanic and the beginning of WW1, it was the wreck of the Empress of Ireland (see one of earlier discussions about this ship wreck) where more people died on the Empress sinking than the Titanic and where the Titanic took 2 and a half hours to sink, the Empress only took 14 minutes!

Thanks for you post tho, i didn't realize about the darkroom!

Hi Rd, Wow I did not know all these interesting facts about the Titanic thank you for sharing this with your friends and members of mylot they were really astounding, and I love the story about the Titanic that is why I appreciate reading your discussion and I shall be giving you a + rating for this particular one. xx

I guess i had read few of the facts earlier and anyway thanks for sharing those facts.

I would like to share few more facts on this.Here are some of the most interesting facts about the ship and its fateful journey:

1) The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.

2) Survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, which was 58 miles southeast of Titanic when it received the distress call.

3) Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel.

4) The wreckage of Titanic was located in 1985, 12,500 feet down, about 350 miles (531 km) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.

5) A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic cost $4,350, which translates into $90,000 in 2006 USD.

6) Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic tragedy, died in Massachusetts on May 6, 2006, at age 99. Her mother and a brother also survived, but her father and three other brothers perished.

7) Two other survivors live in England.

8) Eleanor Shuman, who was the inspiration for Kate Winslet's Rose, died on March 7, 1998, at age 87.

They are really good facts, some that I didn't know. I've always been fascinated by the Titanic, but strangely enough I've never seen the film! Thanks for these facts!