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Inside The Titanic (Cabins and Hallways)

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Behind The Scenes Of The Titanic (1997) - Part 1/4

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How it sank

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Scientists Have Found The Titanic Will Disappear Soon

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A large section of the Titanic's hull has been raised despite protests by survivors and relatives of victims of the disaster that the ship is a sea grave and should be left alone.
Salvage company RMS Titanic Inc., which has sole salvage rights for the wreck and has already raised more than 5000 artefacts, took just 40 minutes to raise the 20 ton, 14ft by 23ft steel section on Monday.

The section, known as "the big piece", was recovered from 2.5 miles below the North Atlantic, 370 miles off Newfoundland, Canada.

Second time lucky, but should it have stayed on the bottom? (Discovery Channel)

It broke away from the starboard side of the hull as the Titanic sank after striking an iceberg on 15 April 1912.
The successful salvage operation represents a triumph for the 100 researchers and scientists of RMS Titanic Inc., who made an abortive attempt to raise the same section in 1996.

Titanic survivors and relatives of the victims criticised the decision to raise the hull section and appealed for the wreck to be respected as a sea grave.

Violet Jessop survived both the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship, Britannic. She died in 1970, but her niece, Margaret Meehan, says she would not have approved of the salvage operation.
"We felt it was the wrong thing - that it was inappropriate. The wreck should be left in peace," said Miss Meehan.
"It must be remembered that 1,523 people died."

Historical advisor to RMS Titanic Inc., Charles Haas, defended the operation.

"The Titanic has not revealed human remains in more than 130 dives by four different organisations," he said.

RMS Titanic Inc. has also drawn criticism from historians who accuse the company of damaging the site and "cashing in" on the publicity generated by the success of James Cameron's film, Titanic.

Curator of the Nova Scotia Maritime Museum, Dan Conlin, said: "It's not a question of actually finding a bone. There are human remains in one form or another around that wreck, as well as all sorts of shattered lives directly associated with it. That does mean extra special care."

Mr Conlin represents an international group of museums opposed to commercial salvage of the Titanic.

Salvage: said to be "cashing in" on film publicity

"They're removing stuff that no scientist or archaeologist would ever take off the bottom. That piece of hull they pulled up, they're taking it up for the showbiz stuff," he said.
Discovery Channel, the American cable station and a partner in the operation, claimed the salvage operation would save parts of the Titanic for posterity.

Producer Bob Reid said: "There will come a time, perhaps in our lifetime, when the ship will no longer be recognisable as a ship, but instead as a pile of rubble on the ocean floor."

More than 2000 people, including actor Burt Reynolds and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, watched from two cruise ships as the hull section was gently lowered onto the deck of the salvage vessel Abeille.

RMS Titanic Inc says the hull section and other artefacts will eventually be put on display in a museum in the US, possibly as early as 5 September.

Discovery Channel will be broadcasting live footage from the wreck of the Titanic at 0100 GMT on Monday 17 August.

Live images of the wreck will appear simultaneously on Discovery Channel Online.

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But seas became rough and the salvagers decided to try to tow the hull section about 80 miles to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, where seas were expected to be smoother. The lifting then would be easier, and if it failed there, retrieving the piece would be simpler in waters 120 to 600 feet deep.

But a long way from the Banks, about 3 A.M. yesterday, the 11-ton section of rusting metal broke free from the towing ship and fell back to the ocean floor. The reasons are still obscure, but two of the four lift balloons apparently broke loose, causing the whole section to sink.

An acoustic beeper was attached to the hull plate and batteries in the device are expected to last two years, raising the possibility of recovering the lost hull section, said Philip S. Pennellatore, a spokesman for RMS Titanic.

''They're planning on going back at some point to successfully bring it to the surface,'' Mr. Pennellatore said from Boston. ''There's a good chance they'll be able to do this.''

Charles Pellegrino, a scientist and author who visited the expedition at sea earlier in August, said in an interview that he had considered the odds of a successful recovery fairly low, given the difficulty of the job.

''It wasn't inevitable that it would break away, but there was a fair possibility,'' Mr. Pellegrino said from his home in Long Beach, L.I.

Noting a string of setbacks that have plagued the Titanic and those associated with the vessel and its discovery, he added, ''I don't believe in the curses, but I don't disbelieve in them at this point.''

The rusting hulk was found in 1985 on the seabed broken in two, its bow and stern nearly a half-mile apart. Strewn between them was a large field of debris including items like shoes, coal, wine bottles, fine china and the large piece of hull, which was thought to have been attached toward the ship's stern.

Despite accusations that it was desecrating a grave site, RMS Titanic won ownership of the sunken hulk by being the first to recover artifacts. The company sponsored salvage expeditions in 1987, 1993, 1994 and again this year, so far investing about $20 million.

Its main contractor is the French Oceanographic Research Institute, which in 1985 worked with an American team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod to find the luxury liner.

RMS Titanic has pledged to leave the main wreckage undisturbed, to gather artifacts only from the debris field and to display them publicly in collections, rather than selling them.

The company has recovered 4,000 items and, with the aid of French experts, has restored many of them. About 150 were displayed last year at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where 700,000 people paid to see the exhibition. A new exhibition of 300 items is to open in Memphis in April.

The raised section of hull was eventually to become the centerpiece of a large museum display, perhaps a floating one on a shipboard museum. But that plan was thrown into limbo when the huge plate sank back to the seabed, rejoining the lost liner.

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Illustration of the sinking of the Titanic

On April 14, 1912, the collided with an iceberg, damaging the hull's plates below the waterline on the starboard side, causing the front compartments to flood. The ship then sank two hours and forty minutes later, with approximately 1,496 fatalities as a result of drowning or hypothermia. Since then, many conspiracy theories have been suggested regarding the disaster. These theories have been refuted by subject-matter experts.

The pack ice theory is not a conspiracy theory since it accepts that the sinking was an accident. However, it differs from the commonly accepted theory and is considered implausible by the vast majority of historians. Captain L. M. Collins, a former member of the Ice Pilotage Service, based a conclusion on three pieces of evidence and going off of his own experience of ice navigation and witness statements given at the two post-disaster enquiries, that what the Titanic hit was not an iceberg but low-lying pack ice. His book, called The Sinking of the Titanic: The Mystery Solved (2003) goes into further detail about the events.

1. There were no reports of haze the entire night of the sinking, but at 11.30 pm the two lookouts spotted what they believed to be haze on the horizon, extending approximately 20° on either side of the ship's bow. Collins believes that what they saw was not haze but a strip of pack ice, 3-4 mi (4.8-6.4 km) ahead of the ship.

2. Each witness had a different description of the ice. 60 ft (18 m) high by the lookouts, 100 ft (30 m) high by Quartermaster Rowe on the deck, and only very low in the water by Fourth Officer Boxhall, on the starboard side near the darkened bridge. "An optical phenomenon that is well known to ice navigators" where the flat sea and extreme cold distort the appearance of objects near the waterline, making them appear to be the height of the ship's lights, about 60 ft (18 m) above the surface near the bow, and 100 ft (30 m) high alongside the superstructure explains what probably happened by the witnesses' descriptions.

3. The Titanic made a turn by rotating one-third of the way from the bow, which caused her rudder to hard over and crushed her starboard side into an iceberg. This would have caused the ship to flood, capsize, and sink within minutes, damaging the starboard side of the hull and potentially the superstructure.

Olympic exchange hypothesis

One of the controversial and elaborate theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic was advanced by Robin Gardiner in his book Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? (1998). Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact Titanic's sister ship Olympic, disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam by its owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902.

A photograph of the RMS Olympic.

Researchers Bruce Beveridge and Steve Hall took issue with many of Gardiner's claims in their book Olympic and Titanic: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy (2004). Author Mark Chirnside has also raised serious questions about the switch theory. British historian Gareth Russell, for his part, calls the theory "so painfully ridiculous that one can only lament the thousands of trees which lost their lives to provide the paper on which it has been articulated." He notes that, "since the sister ships had significant interior architectural and design differences, switching them secretly in a week would be nearly impossible from a practical standpoint. A switch would also not be economically worthwhile, since the ship's owners could have simply damaged the ship while docked (for instance, by setting a fire) and collected the insurance money from that "accident," which "would have been far less severe, and infinitely less stupid, than sailing her out into the middle of the Atlantic with thousands of people, and their luggage, on board, and ramming her into an iceberg." [citation needed ]

Some conspiracy theorists believe that the Titanic was sunk on purpose to eliminate opposition to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. Some of the wealthiest men in the world were aboard the Titanic for her maiden voyage, several of whom, including John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor Straus, were allegedly opposed to the creation of a U.S. central bank. No evidence of their opposition to Morgan's centralized banking ideas has been found -- Astor and Guggenheim never spoke publicly on the subject, while Straus spoke in favor of the concept. All three men died during the sinking. Conspiracy theorists suggest that J. P. Morgan, the 74 year-old financier who set up the eponymous banking firm, arranged to have the men board the ship and then sunk it to eliminate them. Morgan, nicknamed the " Napoleon of Wall Street", had helped create General Electric, U.S. Steel, and International Harvester, and was credited with almost single-handedly saving the U.S. banking system during the Panic of 1907. Morgan did have a hand in the creation of the Federal Reserve, and owned the International Mercantile Marine, which owned the White Star Line, and thus the Titanic.

Morgan, who had attended the Titanic's launching in 1911, had booked a personal suite aboard the ship with his own private promenade deck and a bath equipped with specially designed cigar holders. He was reportedly booked on the ship's maiden voyage but instead cancelled the trip and remained at the French resort of Aix-les-Bains to enjoy his morning massages and sulfur baths. His allegedly last-minute cancellation has fuelled speculation among conspiracy theorists that he knew of the ship's fate. This theory has been refuted by Titanic experts George Behe, Don Lynch, and Ray Lepien who have each provided alternate, more widely-accepted theories as to why Morgan cancelled his trip.

Conspiracy theorist Stew Peters has advanced an antisemitic version of the theory, alleging the Rothschilds were behind both the Federal Reserve and the Titanic's sinking. Peters also claimed the OceanGate submarine was deliberately sabotaged in order to prevent its own passengers from discovering that the Titanic was sunk by a "controlled demolition" instead of an iceberg.

Another theory involves Titanic's watertight doors. This theory suggests that if these doors had been opened, the Titanic would have settled on an even keel and therefore, perhaps, remained afloat long enough for rescue ships to arrive. However, this theory has been rebutted for two reasons: first, the first four compartments were naturally watertight, thus it was impossible to lower the concentration of water in the bow significantly. Second, Bedford and Hacket have shown by calculations that any significant amount of water aft of boiler room No. 4 would have resulted in capsizing of the Titanic, which would have occurred about 30 minutes earlier than the actual time of sinking. Additionally, the lighting would have been lost about 70 minutes after the collision due to the flooding of the boiler rooms. Bedford and Hacket also analyzed the hypothetical case that there were no bulkheads at all. Then, the vessel would have capsized about 70 minutes before the actual time of sinking and lighting would have been lost about 40 minutes after the collision.

Later, in a 1998 documentary titled Titanic: Secrets Revealed, the Discovery Channel ran model simulations which also rebutted this theory. The simulations indicated that opening Titanic's watertight doors would have caused the ship to capsize earlier than it actually sank by more than a half-hour, supporting the findings of Bedford and Hacket.

Breakup suspected by Long

Titanic researchers continued to debate the causes and mechanics of the ship's breakup. According to his book, A Night to Remember, Walter Lord described Titanic as assuming an "absolutely perpendicular" position shortly before its final plunge. This view remained largely unchallenged even after the wreck was discovered by Robert Ballard in 1985, which confirmed that Titanic had broken in two pieces at or near the surface; paintings by noted marine artist Ken Marschall and as imagined onscreen in James Cameron's film , both depicted the ship attaining a steep angle prior to the breakup. Most researchers acknowledged that Titanic's aft expansion joint -designed to allow for flexing of the hull in a seaway-played little to no role in the ship's breakup, though debate continued as to whether the ship had broken from the top downwards or from the bottom upwards.

In 2005, a History Channel expedition to the wreck site scrutinized two large sections of Titanic's keel, which constituted the portion of the ship's bottom from immediately below the site of the break. With assistance from naval architect Roger Long, the team analysed the wreckage and developed a new break-up scenario which was publicised in the television documentary Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces in 2006. One hallmark of this new theory was the claim that Titanic's angle at the time of the breakup was far less than had been commonly assumed-according to Long, no greater than 11°.

Long also suspected that Titanic's breakup may have begun with the premature failure of the ship's aft expansion joint, and ultimately exacerbated the loss of life by causing Titanic to sink faster than anticipated. In 2006, the History Channel sponsored dives on Titanic's newer sister ship, Britannic, which verified that the design of Britannic's expansion joints was superior to that incorporated in the Titanic. To further explore Long's theory, the History Channel commissioned a new computer simulation by JMS Engineering. The simulation, whose results were featured in the 2007 documentary Titanic's Achilles Heel, partially refuted Long's suspicions by demonstrating that Titanic's expansion joints were strong enough to deal with any and all stresses the ship could reasonably be expected to encounter in service and, during the sinking, actually outperformed their design specifications. But, most important is that the expansion joints were part of the superstructure, which was situated above the strength deck (B-deck) and therefore above the top of the structural hull girder. Thus, the expansion joints had no meaning for the support of the hull. They played no role in the breaking of the hull. They simply opened up and parted as the hull flexed or broke beneath them.

Brad Matsen's 2008 book Titanic's Last Secrets endorses the expansion joint theory.

One common oversight is the fact that the collapse of the first funnel at a relatively shallow angle occurred when the forward expansion joint, over which several funnels stays crossed, opened as the hull was beginning to stress. The opening of the joint stretched and snapped the stays. The forward momentum of the ship as she took a sudden lurch forwards and downwards sent the unsupported funnel toppling onto the starboard bridge wing.

One theory that would support the fracturing of the hull is that the Titanic partly grounded on the shelf of ice below the waterline as she collided with the iceberg, perhaps damaging the keel and underbelly. Later during the sinking, it was noticed that Boiler Room four flooded from below the floor grates rather than from over the top of the watertight bulkhead. This would be consistent with additional damage along the keel compromising the integrity of the hull.

This claim states fire began in one of Titanic's coal bunkers approximately 10 days prior to the ship's departure, and continued to burn for several days into the voyage. Fires occurred frequently on board steamships due to spontaneous combustion of the coal. The fires had to be extinguished with fire hoses, by moving the coal on top to another bunker and by removing the burning coal and feeding it into the furnace. This event has led some authors to theorize that the fire exacerbated the effects of the iceberg collision, by reducing the structural integrity of the hull and a critical bulkhead.

Senan Molony has suggested that attempts to extinguish the fire - by shoveling burning coals into the engine furnaces - may have been the primary reason for the Titanic steaming at full speed prior to the collision, despite ice warnings. Most experts disagree. Samuel Halpern has concluded that "the bunker fire would not have weakened the watertight bulkhead sufficiently to cause it to collapse." Also, it has been alternatively suggested that the coal bunker fire actually helped Titanic to last longer during the sinking and prevented the ship from rolling over to starboard after the impact, due to the subtle port list created by the moving of coal inside the ship prior to the encounter with the iceberg. Some of these foremost Titanic experts have published a detailed rebuttal of Molony's claims.

1. Mark Chirnside (2006). "Olympic & Titanic - An Analysis of the Robin Gardiner Conspiracy Theory" (PDF).

2. ^ "HOARDING BY BANKS A CAUSE OF PANIC; This, Stewart Browne Says, Is the Objection to Aldrich Plan, Which Does Not Stop It". The New York Times. 18 October 1911. ISSN 0362-4331.

3. ^ "ISIDOR STRAUS URGES NEW BANKING PLAN; Replies to J.J. Hill's Attack on the National Reserve Association Scheme". The New York Times. 16 October 1911. ISSN 0362-4331.

4. "The Craziest Titanic Conspiracy Theories, Explained". History.com. 25 February 2019.

5. Daugherty, Greg. "Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic". Smithsonian.

6. ^ "CORRECTED-Fact Check-J.P. Morgan did not sink the Titanic to push forward plans for the U.S. Federal Reserve". Reuters. 17 March 2021.

7. ^ "The RNC is partnering with the Republican Jewish Coalition and Rumble - a virulently antisemitic platform - for the third GOP debate". Media Matters for America. 16 October 2023.

8. Hacket C. and Bedford, J.G. (1996). The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic - Investigated by Modern Techniques. The Northern Ireland Branch of the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 26 March 1996 and the Joint Meeting of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 10 December 1996

9. ^ Mark Chirnside. "The Olympic' Class's Expansion Joints". titanic-model.com. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018.

10. ^ JMS Engineering study. "RMS Titanic: Complete Hull Failure Following Collision with Iceberg" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2013.

11. ^ "Titanic Conspiracies". Titanic Conspiracies | Stuff They Don't Want You to Know. 6 October 2017.

12. Titanic Research & Modeling Association: ^ Coal Bunker Fire Archived 12 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine

13. ^ Titanic: Fire & Ice (Or What You Will) Archived 20 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine Various Authors. Retrieved 23 January 2017.

Halpern, Samuel; Weeks, Charles (2011). "Description of the Damage to the Ship". In Halpern, Samuel (ed.). Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic: A Centennial Reappraisal. Stroud, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-6210-3.

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The History in Numbers

At 11.40pm on the night of 14 April 1912, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the RMS Titanic struck the iceberg that would ultimately lead to the sinking of the ship less than 3 hours later.

At around 2.20am on the morning of 15 April, the Titanic disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a disaster that resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives, almost two-thirds of the people on board.

Titanic Facts aims to tell the story in a comprehensive and clear way, and to help keep alive the memory of this great and tragic ship, and of her passengers and crew, survivors and victims.

Some Titanic Facts To Discover

There are more than 1,000 fascinating facts and figures to explore within Titanic Facts. Here are a few to get you started, with links straight to the section they are contained in.

The Ship

269.1 metres - the length of the Titanic (882 feet 9 inches).

825 tons - the amount of coal used per day.

10,000 - the approximate number of lamp bulbs used on the ship.

+ Read more about the Titanic Ship

Building The Titanic

$7,500,000 - the cost of building the RMS Titanic.

2 - the number of workers killed during the build.

20 - horses needed to transport the main anchor.

+ Read more about building The Titanic

Food On The Titanic

14,000 - the gallons of drinking water used every 24 hours.

40,000 - the number of fresh eggs in the ship's provisions.

1,000 - the number of bottles of wine taken aboard.

+ Read more about food on the Titanic

The Lifeboats

64 - the number of lifeboats the Titanic was equipped to carry.

20 - the number of lifeboats she was actually carrying.

28 - the number of people on board the first lifeboat, which had a capacity of 65 people.

+ Read more about the Titanic lifeboats

The Passengers

3,547 - the maximum number of people the Titanic could carry.

2,223 - the number of people aboard (passengers and crew).

13 - the number of honeymooning couples on the voyage.

+ Read more about the Titanic passengers

The Sinking

6 - the number of warnings of icebergs the Titanic received before the collision.

160 - the minutes it took the Titanic to sink after hitting the iceberg (2 hours and 40 minutes).

-2°C - the temperature of the sea water in the area where Titanic sank.

+ Read more about the sinking of the Titanic

The Survivors

31.6% - the total percentage of passengers and crew who survived.

53.4% - the percentage who could have survived, given the number of spaces available on the Titanic lifeboats.

2 - the number of dogs who survived (lapdogs taken aboard lifeboats by their owners).

+ Read more about the Titanic survivors

The Wreck

12,600 feet - the depth at which the wreck of the Titanic lays.

18 metres - the distance that the bow penetrated into the sea bed.

6,000 - the approximate number of artefacts that have been recovered from the wreck site.

+ Read more about the Titanic wreck

About The Site

There is a great deal of in-depth coverage of the Titanic story on the web, much of it excellent, some of it fanciful.

Titanic Facts has been designed to provide a quick and simple snapshot of some of the key facts and figures about the life and loss of this great ship. I hope you find something of value and interest here.

Important Note

All of the facts and figures displayed on Titanic Facts are correct to the best of my knowledge. However myths and misinformation about the Titanic abound, whilst some facts about the disaster are debated to this day.

Therefore, do please be aware that the accuracy of the information presented cannot be guaranteed. We recommend that you use this website as a starting point for your research. In using any of the information or images from this website you do so entirely at your discretion.

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The History in Numbers

At 11.40pm on the night of 14 April 1912, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the RMS Titanic struck the iceberg that would ultimately lead to the sinking of the ship less than 3 hours later.

At around 2.20am on the morning of 15 April, the Titanic disappeared beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, a disaster that resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives, almost two-thirds of the people on board.

Titanic Facts aims to tell the story in a comprehensive and clear way, and to help keep alive the memory of this great and tragic ship, and of her passengers and crew, survivors and victims.

Some Titanic Facts To Discover

There are more than 1,000 fascinating facts and figures to explore within Titanic Facts. Here are a few to get you started, with links straight to the section they are contained in.

The Ship

269.1 metres - the length of the Titanic (882 feet 9 inches).

825 tons - the amount of coal used per day.

10,000 - the approximate number of lamp bulbs used on the ship.

+ Read more about the Titanic Ship

Building The Titanic

$7,500,000 - the cost of building the RMS Titanic.

2 - the number of workers killed during the build.

20 - horses needed to transport the main anchor.

+ Read more about building The Titanic

Food On The Titanic

14,000 - the gallons of drinking water used every 24 hours.

40,000 - the number of fresh eggs in the ship's provisions.

1,000 - the number of bottles of wine taken aboard.

+ Read more about food on the Titanic

The Lifeboats

64 - the number of lifeboats the Titanic was equipped to carry.

20 - the number of lifeboats she was actually carrying.

28 - the number of people on board the first lifeboat, which had a capacity of 65 people.

+ Read more about the Titanic lifeboats

The Passengers

3,547 - the maximum number of people the Titanic could carry.

2,223 - the number of people aboard (passengers and crew).

13 - the number of honeymooning couples on the voyage.

+ Read more about the Titanic passengers

The Sinking

6 - the number of warnings of icebergs the Titanic received before the collision.

160 - the minutes it took the Titanic to sink after hitting the iceberg (2 hours and 40 minutes).

-2°C - the temperature of the sea water in the area where Titanic sank.

+ Read more about the sinking of the Titanic

The Survivors

31.6% - the total percentage of passengers and crew who survived.

53.4% - the percentage who could have survived, given the number of spaces available on the Titanic lifeboats.

2 - the number of dogs who survived (lapdogs taken aboard lifeboats by their owners).

+ Read more about the Titanic survivors

The Wreck

12,600 feet - the depth at which the wreck of the Titanic lays.

18 metres - the distance that the bow penetrated into the sea bed.

6,000 - the approximate number of artefacts that have been recovered from the wreck site.

+ Read more about the Titanic wreck

About The Site

There is a great deal of in-depth coverage of the Titanic story on the web, much of it excellent, some of it fanciful.

Titanic Facts has been designed to provide a quick and simple snapshot of some of the key facts and figures about the life and loss of this great ship. I hope you find something of value and interest here.

Important Note

All of the facts and figures displayed on Titanic Facts are correct to the best of my knowledge. However myths and misinformation about the Titanic abound, whilst some facts about the disaster are debated to this day.

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Titanic Facts * 1,000+ Fascinating Facts and Figures

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A comprehensive reference of amazing information on the life and loss of the Titanic, in numbers: survivors and victims, the sinking, the wreck and more.

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This is one of the first pictures of the ship, after completion.

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The Titanic started to sink around 11:40 pm.m on April 14, 1912. This occurred only a few days into its maiden voyage. Many lives were lost, but it all could've been avoided. We know what happened that night. We've seen the wreckage. But how would the wreck be different if it happened today? Who is to blame for all of this chaos? Not only have the laws of the sea changed to reflect an attempt at a safer world, but also the world has become a lot more law-suit happy. But, in order to file a suit,you have to know who to blame. Was it the captain, who had sunk four boats previously, but the super rich loved? Could the sailor who charted the course knowing of the ice berg patterns in the area be to blame? Can we sue the watchmen who hadn't had their eyes checked in at least five years and couldn't find their binoculars? Shall we cast the radio operators who turned off the radio and ignored ice berg warnings in favor of sending the passengers' personal messages? Should we blame the architect of the ship, who didn't include more than the required number of lifeboats? The problem with casting the blame on any of these men? They all happened to have drowned on the ship. Now, a lot of people think the Titanic's sinking might have all been a cover up. Who do you think was to blame? Was it a cover up? Do the families of the victims have the right to sue? What do you think? Write a two page essay on your thoughts, citing text evidence from our readings, facts that you've learned over the course of this unit, and things you personally found interesting.