facts verse presents haunting facts
about the Titanic the musicians played
as the ships sank after the Titanic hit
the iceberg the captain ordered the
passengers to start being put into
lifeboats to keep the passengers calm he
asked the band to play when things began
getting very hectic the band broke up
and said their goodbyes they were going
to stop playing and try to save
themselves but changed their minds they
continued playing up until the ship went
underwater since then they have been
called heroes the men in the band were
Theodore Braley Roger Brico Jean Clark
Wallace Hartley John law Hume George
Kearns Percy Taylor and John Woodward
all of the men died that night and some
of their bodies were never recovered it
took a long time for the Titanic to sink
although they had people looking out for
icebergs the Titanic sideswiped a huge
iceberg the ship didn't sink instantly
it took 2 hours and 40 minutes for the
entire ship to sink under the surface of
the ocean
this gave the crew plenty of time to get
the passengers off the ship
unfortunately there weren't enough
lifeboats for everyone on board there
weren't enough lifeboats the Titanic was
large enough to carry 64 lifeboats to
save passengers if the ship were to sink
since the ship was considered to be
unsinkable the ship's designers chose
not to take up space by putting the
maximum amount of lifeboats possible the
ship had only 20 lifeboats on board
which is the reason that so many of the
passengers did not get off the ship
safely and most who went into the water
drowned
most of the lifeboats weren't even
filled to capacity each lifeboat was
capable of holding between 40 and 65
passengers there were only about 20
people put into each boat honeymooners
on the Titanic
there were a few couples who were on
their honeymoon when the Titanic went
down Viktor and Maria Penasco Acosta
Lana were on their honeymoon and decided
to end the trip in New York by taking a
trip on the most luxurious ocean liner
in the world Viktor was a very rich man
having inherited a fortune from his
father and grandfather when the ship hit
the iceberg Viktor went to see what
happened when he came back he told Maria
to get dressed
he put Maria and her maid on lifeboat
number 8 sadly he never made it on to a
lifeboat and he died and his body was
never recovered another honeymoon couple
John and nella Schneider who were in
their early 20s were on the Titanic but
they survived some of the crew members
were allowing newlyweds onto the
lifeboats along with women and children
they both got on the lifeboat Jean died
at 71 years old and Nell died when she
was 93 the ship's chief Baker had to
swim to be rescued when the ship first
hit the iceberg and the chief Baker
Charles Geoghan found out that they were
going to be loading the lifeboats he got
his men together so that they could
bring food up to the deck to put in the
lifeboats which included four loaves of
bread per boat he was supposed to be the
captain of lifeboat number 10 however
there were already people doing that job
he drank a great deal of whisky and
stayed on the ship for as long as
possible he also threw deck chairs
overboard so that people could use them
afloat ation devices when the ship went
down he fought to tread water for two
hours when the Sun came up he spotted an
overturned lifeboat with about 25 men
standing on the side there wasn't enough
room for him so he had to sit on the
boat with his feet and legs in the water
when another lifeboat came he swam to it
and stayed there until he boarded the
RMS Carpathia even though he was in the
freezing water for hours all he had was
swollen feet the lifeboat drill was
canceled on the night the Titanic sank
there had been many reports of ice in
the water in the area from
the other boats who had passed icebergs
even with this information the lifeboat
drill was cancelled lifeboat drills were
very common on ocean liners and there
was one scheduled for the day that the
Titanic sank for reasons unknown it was
canceled by captain Edward John Smith
the unsinkable ship had a design flaw
making it sinkable when the Titanic was
built it was said to be unsinkable
because the bulkheads were each
watertight the problem was that the
water could spill from one compartment
to the next this made the ship too heavy
on one side pulling it deep into the
ocean the Titanic was huge the length of
the Titanic from bow to stern was 882
feet nine inches that equals the size of
two football fields it weighed 50 3310
tons at the time it was the largest
cruise liner ever built the Titanic will
be gone within twenty years there is a
newly discovered rust eating bacteria
called hala Mona's Titanic a this
bacteria will eat what is left of the
Titanic on the ocean floor within 20
years it will have consumed the entire
remains of the ship the Titanic was a
passengers second boat sinking a
passenger on the Titanic named Raymond
origami dia was a passenger onboard the
ship
America on December 24 1871 the ship was
reaching another ship in to Montevideo
harbour when the boiler became too
pressurized and resulted in a fire on
board the ship there were 164 passengers
on board and only 65 of them survived
Raymond was one of them he escaped by
jumping into the ocean and swimming for
his life many of the survivors were very
badly burned Raymond was only scarred
emotionally in 1912 the Titanic was
ready to set sail and Raymond decided to
face his fears and buy a ticket
unfortunately when the ship went down
this time he didn't make it it was a
while before the first lifeboat was
released
after the Titanic struck the iceberg the
captain and the ship's designer met to
figure out the extent of the damage as
soon as it was discovered that the water
in the watertight bulkheads had spilled
over from compartment to compartment
they decided that the ship would
definitely sink as soon as it was
figured out they started getting people
ready to board the lifeboats it was one
hour after the collision the water was
extremely cold the night the Titanic
sunk the water was extremely cold it was
very cold outside and the ocean was only
28 degrees that is 4 degrees below
freezing the temperature of the water
was the main reason so many people went
into the water that night and died the
discovery of the Titanic after the
Titanic sunk to the ocean floor its
remains were lost for 73 years in 1985 a
team of French and American researchers
who were looking for the Titanic finally
found it south of Newfoundland before
this discovery three other teams had set
out in search of the ship's remains but
failed the first reporting of the
sinking was inaccurate the first
newspaper to deliver the news of the
Titanic sinking was the Daily Mail on
April 16 1912 they reported that the
Titanic had sunk and that no lives were
lost clearly this was a huge error they
didn't have the technology back then
that we have today and it was easy for
stories to get jumbled when the
Washington Post reported the sinking
they got their information from the RMS
Olympic the front page read 1800 souls
lost third-class passengers had to share
a bathtub the Turkish bath was
designated for first-class passengers
only
each first-class cabin had a bathroom in
the parlor suite unfortunately things
were not as good for the third-class
passengers there were just two bathtubs
for the third-class passengers and these
two bathtubs were shared by 700
passengers the richest man on the
Titanic
the richest man on the Titanic was a man
named John Jacob Astor at the time he
was worth 87 million dollars which
equals to two point one six billion
today he was recently divorced and then
married an 18 year old girl there was a
huge scandal after he remarried so
quickly to someone so young so he
decided to get away he took his new wife
Madeleine travelling through Egypt in
Europe during their trip Madeleine got
pregnant she wanted to have the baby in
the United States so they boarded the
Titanic Madeleine her nurse and her
maids survived unfortunately John did
not he was last seen a half hour before
the ship went under the ocean smoking a
cigarette with an American journalist
named Jacques spew Trel according to
several reports he could have got on a
lifeboat however he gave up his seat to
a woman and her daughter there is
another story that he gave up his feet
too too terrified little girls many
bodies were never found this is one of
the most haunting facts about the
Titanic when the Titanic sunk over 1,500
people passed away sadly only 306 bodies
were ever found
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