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2. One of the Titanic’s coal bunkers were on fire as it left Southampton.
3. Some Titanic passengers kept dogs on board in kennels. One dog was worth 750 pounds. That was quite a big amount in 1912.
4. During the Second World War, a German propaganda movie was made. It was called “Titanic”. The hero in the story was the sole German officer on board……and invented character!
5. Passengers rode the stationery bicycles in the gymnasium to pass time before the ship sank!
6. It has been said by many survivors that officer Murdoch committed suicide just before the ship sank with one of the pistols that the crew had to keep the crowds away from the life boats!
7. Many of the life boats left half empty, meaning that a lot less people were saved.
8. 325 richest people in the world were on board the first class cabins on the Titanic.
9. The wealthiest passenger on board was Colonel John Jacob Astor, with a fortune estimated to be around 100 million dollars; he did not survive.
10. Before the Titanic left the harbour its suction snapped another ship’s ropes and nearly ran into it. The ship was called New York!
11. The passenger list on the Titanic showed that there was a person named J. Dawson on the ship…. He did not survive.
12.
In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic ship sank, a writer called Morgan
Robertson wrote a book, Futility, about the largest ship ever created,
carrying the richest and most famous people in the world at that time of
her maiden voyage. The ship weighed 70,000 tons (Titanic weighed 66,000
tons) was 800 feet long while the Titanic was 882 feet long. Both ships
had a top speed of 25 knots and capable of carrying 3,000 passengers. Neither
ships had enough life boats. Both ships were so called “Unsinkable”.
On
an April night this fictitious ship struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden
voyage……The name of this ship was Titanic.
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“The
night before sailing, I asked my wife to put my White Star in my cap and
while she was doing this, the star fell to pieces. With a look of dismay,
she said, I don’t like this.”
Steward Arthur Lewis
“My father was so excited about it and my mother was so upset……First time in my life I saw her crying…… she was so desperately unhappy about the prospect of going. She had this premonition, a most unusual thing for her……”
“We
went on that day by boat train……I was 7 and I had never seen a ship before……it
looked really big……everybody was excited. We went down to the cabin and
that’s when my mother said to my father she had made up her mind quite
firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would sit up at night……
she decided that she wouldn’t go to bed at night and she didn’t !”
Eva Hart
“We
were let out of school for half a day to see her. I lived in Woolston and
that’s where we could see the docks from where we were standing. Teacher
was in control of us and we watched the Titanic come out so far and then
there was a delay and it was drawn back again to wharf and so we waited
and waited. Finally, she started again and that time she went down out
of sight of Southampton waters and that was the last we saw of her. An
old gentleman mentioned alongside me, that it was a sign of bad luck. Let’s
hope not, he said”
Mrs Louis Jacobs, nee Brown
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