in 1898 fourteen years before the actual
RMS Titanic tragedy an American author wrote a novel
call futility Morgan robertson's the authors novel was about a British cruise
ship
named the title the time set sail on her maiden voyage in April
as a story line goes the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic
in sank going down with the passengers and crew members
the tragedy similarities to the actual events are astonishing
an creepy the RMS Titanic sank in the very early hours of April 15th 1912
in the IC an iceberg build waters of the North Atlantic
the fabulous brand new ship had been proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable
by her designers
engineers and builders the Titanic had begun her maiden voyage at noon on April
12 1912
underweight in New York City from Southampton England
the Titanic had been constructed
at the Harland and Wolff shipped orders in belfast northern ireland
for the White Star Line cruise ships she and her sister ship the Olympic
were designed to be the premier luxury cruise ships the target customers and
passengers
for the Titanic in Olympic were to be the elite in the wealthiest of the world
the Titanic sister ship the Olympic was completed in begin sailing before the
Titanic
the Olympics maiden voyage was June 1911 on september twentieth nineteen eleven
the Olympic collided with the Royal Navy ship Park which cause significant
structural damage to the Olympic
the amount of damage caused from the collision resulted in delay for the
completion of Titanic
as materials were diverted from Titanic to repair the Olympic
the captain on the bridge of the Olympic during the incident was Edward J Smith
he's more famously remembered as the first and only captain of the Titanic
the Titanic sailed from the Belfair shipyards on April 2nd 1912
in arrived in south hampden on april third nineteen twelve
this tight schedule left just seven days to prepare the ship
in the crew to be able to set sail for America the biggest was elegant cruise
ship up to that moment
required much planning as the preparations and training were being
conducted prior to the arrival passengers
Captain Smith cancel the lifeboat emergency training for the crew
without explanation the training was never rescheduled
never conducted during the emergency phone the impact with the iceberg
was the first time the crew had even tried to deploy the lifeboats
the Titanic's total people capacity was three thousand five hundred
forty seven souls
the eighteen lifeboats on board the ship had a seating capacity for sixty five
persons each
which were not enough there was not enough seating space on the lifeboats
for even half of the ship's capacity
the seating capacity available in the number of lifeboats on board the Titanic
was for 1,178 souls
it has been discovered through the government enquiries in historical
investigations
that over half the lifeboats were only about half-full
the first lifeboat launched into the Atlantic only had twenty eight souls on
board
if all of the lifeboats have been full 1,178 souls would have survived
the facts say that only seven hundred and six people of the 2,223 people on
board the ship survived the sinking
over the last century of the Titanic slower many historical documentaries
science explorations investigations and motion pictures
into in about the ship had been made the purported causes of her sinking
and the backstory on her passengers have made the tragedy much more mysterious
and famous to date there's been only one cruise liner that has ever been sung by
colliding with an iceberg
the RMS Titanic no wonder it is so famously remembered
discussed and explored
though captain Smith had a history of having navigational problems
as a ship captain in questionable decision-making in his role
he was not found negligent by the British government inquiry
a separate inquiry by the United States government conducted because that the
number of Americans who died in the tragedy
blame captain smith for the tragedy the US inquire revealed a cat dismiss in
different reactions to the iceberg warnings
showed a behavior that was negligent and dangerous
after the Titanic sank on April 15th 1912
the wreckage and missing passengers remain buried in the watery grave of the
Atlantic
untill September of 1885 on September 1st
1985 a joint French American exploration searching for the Titanic wreckage
was successful and begin to lead the way in discovery for the truth
in part due to a long-held superstition at the Seas the women on board a ship
bring bad luck
only eighteen members and the crew 900 were women of those
18 female crew members 17 were rescued via lifeboats on board
as mentioned the Titanic was built for the first class traveler
a stateroom on the ship which included to dressing rooms two bedrooms
a private bathroom a city room and a private deck for a fair forty two
hundred dollars
in today's dollars that would be nearly one hundred and two thousand dollars
according to the United States Federal Reserve calculator
there are more than first class passengers aboard the ill-fated ship
in fact over half the passengers were third class passengers
also known as steerage passengers the cost of the third class ticket was
roughly $36 dollars
or a hundred and seventy-five dollars today these passengers were mostly
immigrants headed to america
for a new start in the newer brighter world across the Atlantic
the Titanic cost $7.5 million to build in 1911 and 1912
in today's dollars that would amount to almost $170 million
in 1997 the movie Titanic cost more than $200 million dollars to make
for nearly three hundred million today no matter how you perform your
compilation
the movie cost more to make than the actual ship by the way
the movie made over $1.8 billion at the box office