Hey Youtube, Jim here! Welcome to Top10Archive! It seems the more the years pass, the more obsessed
we all are with the movie Titanic. It’s hard to differentiate even what was real in history
and what only happened in the movie. So, it’s nice to look back and remember the very real and
very strange facts about the Titanic that might not have been widely known! Here are the top 10
Weirdest Facts About The Titanic! But before we get started,
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10. One of the Smokestacks Was Fake The Titanic, from the outside, had four
smokestacks. The more smokestacks a giant boat needs, the bigger and more luxurious it is, right?
Well, that’s what the designers were thinking when they built it and installed a fourth
dummy smokestack as it made the ship look more beautiful. It was made into a ventilation shaft
for the kitchen but not connected to any furnace. Nothing like an impressive four smokestacks to
get people buying tickets, right? 9. Only 20 Lifeboats Were Added
Perhaps a more common fact that everyone knows, is that the Titanic wasn't built with enough
lifeboats, which is what caused such a high number of casualties. But a more unknown fact
is to why they only have 20 lifeboats. The ship was designed to equip up to 64 lifeboats, enough
to seat more than 4,150 passengers, which was twice the amount of people who boarded the ship,
an estimated 2,208 people. They only took 20, though not because of the lack of budget or room,
but because of a combination of outdated safety regulations and complacency by the White Star
Line, Titanic's operators. 8. The Female Crew
Of the 885 crew members on the Titanic, only 23 of them were women, 20 of which survived.
Almost all of the women crew aboard the Titanic were stewardesses. Of the 23 women, there was one
cashier, one second class Matron, and the rest were different stewardesses. The three who went
down with the ship were 35-year-old Mrs. Catherine Jane Wallis, and 32-year-old Miss Catherine Walsh,
both were stewardesses, and 22-year-old Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, who was a second class Matron.
7. Our Titanic wasn’t the first The Leo DiCaprio film wasn’t the first
to tell the story of the Titanic. In fact, lacking a little sensitivity, a film about
the tragedy came out less than a month after the incident. It was called Saved from the Titanic,
and it was a silent film starring Dorothy Gibson, an actress who had actually survived the event.
Staying true to what occurred, she wore the same clothes and shoes that she’d worn
during the actual sinking of the ship. The film was successful at the time but the only
known print of it was destroyed in a fire at Éclair Studios in March 1914, so we’ll never
see it again. It is Gibson's penultimate film, as she reportedly suffered a mental breakdown
after completing it after having to reenact certain parts of the film in full detail.
6. It Was Predicted?
Though not purposely, it seems, a very true prediction of the Titanic was written in “The
Wreck of the Titan” by Morgan Robertson. It was published 14 years before the Titanic met its end
and told the story of a fictional ocean liner that sinks after hitting an iceberg.
The book is so accurate, it even says the ship was described as “unsinkable”
and that it didn’t carry enough lifeboats, which frankly was probably common practice. Author
Morgan Robertson was said to be a psychic, to be profiting off a tragedy he knew would happen.
He took the comments in stride simply stating, “I know what I’m writing about, that’s all.”
5. We don’t know who died When questions like, “Was a woman named
Rose really there?” or “Did the love story really happen?” come up, they’re hard to answer because
technically no, they’re made-up characters. However, we don’t really know who was there.
The official number was 1,503 dead, over 100 unidentified bodies were buried in Halifax.
Traveling under false names was common practice at the time from all kinds of places. What’s
interesting is that a boy named Sidney Leslie Goodwin, 19 months old at the time of his death,
was identified in 2008 after DNA tests and a global genealogical search.
4. Whiskey Might Have Saved a Man
Charles Joughin found out that the ship was sinking and made his way to all the
whiskey in the ship’s liquor storage so he’d be ready for the cold water. In his own account,
he had a half tumbler full of liquor, threw about 50 chairs in the water for flotation devices,
rode the ship down into the water as if it were an elevator, and survived in the water for roughly
2 hours. In comparison, most people in the water survived for only 15 minutes.
3. Shared Bathrooms If you think economy class on a plane is bad,
you should have seen the situation on the ship. The third-class passengers had to share
two bathtubs. This means that about 700 people shared those two bathtubs. To add some nerdy math,
that would mean that if all 700 passengers wanted to take a bath, they would have to
average 4 minutes each in a 24-hour period. Of the 3 classes, only 25% of third-class passengers
survived, while 42% of second-class passengers and 61% of first-class passengers survived.
2. Right and Wrong In The Movie One thing that the movie got right
is that the band played until the very end. Many have called them heroes, seeing as anxiety
and panic set into the passengers. Knowing they wouldn’t make it, the band continued for hours
after the ship hit the iceberg. How someone can find the courage to play music as the world
ends is very heroic indeed. One myth from the movie that is often talked about, though,
is the scene where Jack and Rose are locked by gates in the lower levels. Historian and author
Tim Maltin said it was "total rubbish", and that "There were gates on Titanic, but these were for
US immigration purposes, to stop the spread of infectious disease on the ship between classes.
As soon as the order was given to lower the lifeboats, the order was given to open all the
gates and there was no discrimination on the boat deck between either first class or third."
1. Lookouts Used Only Their Eyesight. Unlike almost all movie depictions of the Titanic,
the ship's binoculars were actually locked inside a cabinet that no one could find the key to.
The lookouts on the Titanic had to rely only on their eyesight. The keys were nowhere to be found
and, well, you know how the story ends. It all happened because the ship’s second officer was
replaced last minute and he didn’t pass on the information or the key to the cabinet.
The key wasn’t found until 2010 when it was sold for $130,000.
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