According to "Titanic Love Stories," there were at least 13 couples celebrating their honeymoons on the ship. It centered around the sinking of a fictional ship called the Titan. According to Time, there's an eerie number of similarities between the ship's sinking in "Futility" and the Titanic in real life.
First, the ship names are just two letters off Titan vs Titanic. They were also said to be almost the same size, and both sank in April, due to an iceberg.
Both ships had been described as unsinkable, and, sadly, both had just over the legally required amount of lifeboats, which were nowhere near enough. The author was accused of being a psychic, but he explained that the uncanny similarities were simply a product of his extensive knowledge, saying , "I know what I'm writing about, that's all.
Multiple bad judgment calls led to the Californian not helping the Titanic : The ship's radio was allegedly shut off for the night when the Titanic hit the iceberg, and when the captain was awakened by the flares the Titanic had been setting off, he assumed that they were just fireworks. By the time the SOS messages finally came through, it was too late. However, the Californian wasn't long for this world either — it sank in November , torpedoed by a German submarine during WWI. Abott was on the deck until the very end with her two sons, and all three went into the water with the ship.
Tragically, her two sons were washed away by the ocean, but Abott was eventually pulled into a lifeboat that was rescued by the Carpathia. Joughin is briefly but memorably portrayed in "Titanic" as chugging a flask of alcohol before entering the water. This is based on reality — according to reports, Joughin grabbed two bottles of whiskey as the ship went down.
Joughin reported that he survived in the frigid northern Atlantic for at least two hours — most people died from hypothermia within 15 minutes. According to NPR, the menu included "oysters, filet mignon, poached salmon, chicken Lyonnaise, foie gras, roasted pigeon, lamb with mint sauce, and Punch Romaine, a palate-cleansing ice flavored with oranges and drenched in Champagne. And that's just for first class — the ship's cooks had to prepare food for second- and third-class passengers, plus the crew, too.
The Titanic's bow was discovered in , allegedly during a secret Cold War Navy mission. There were at least 15 witnesses who swore on the record that they had seen the Titanic break into two pieces before completely sinking beneath the waves.
But they were ignored — the official US inquiry stated that the ship sank intact. How the Titanic sank was disputed for 73 years until it was finally found on the ocean floor , broken in two. Scientists think the whole wreck could vanish by , thanks to bacteria eating away at it. He shared that "in Henry Harper's D Deck cabin, his bowler hat remains in the ruins of his closet, right where he left it.
Hays was president of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies , which would later become the Canadian National Railway, and was thus well-versed in the technological advancements in transportation. According to a survivor, Colonel Archibald Gracie, Hays pondered if continuing to build bigger and faster ships was wise.
According to Gracie, Hays said "the White Star, the Cunard, and Hamburg-American Lines are devoting their attention and ingenuity in vying with one another to attain the supremacy in luxurious ships and in making speed records. The time will come soon when this will be checked by some appalling disaster. Just four women from first class died during the disaster. While undoubtedly tragic, compare that to the 89 third-class women who died — or the men.
Isham reportedly jumped out of a lifeboat once she realized that she couldn't take her Great Dane with her. It's been speculated that a woman found in the water with her arms wrapped around her large dog was Isham, though it's impossible to know for sure.
A child's body was recovered from the water five days after the Titanic went down. Rescuers were so moved by the little boy that they buried him in a grave in Nova Scotia memorializing the 1, or so children that passed away. The body was misidentified three times before he was finally identified as Sidney Goodwin when his shoes were donated to a museum and DNA tested.
Goodwin's tomb, marked with a headstone that says "unknown child," has remained untouched. His family stated, "The tombstone of the unknown child represents all of the children who perished on the Titanic, and we left it that way. Millvina Dean was just 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat. She was the last living survivor of the Titanic and passed away in , at age After the sinking of the Titanic, Brown became a full-fledged activist.
She was a vocal supporter of the suffrage movement, worked with the Red Cross during World War I, and even ran for Senate, though she didn't win. Masabumi Hosono was originally called the "Lucky Japanese Boy" by American media, but he was soon labeled a coward for getting on a lifeboat, which many considered primarily for women and children. He was called dishonorable in his home country and was accused of dressing up as a woman in order to gain access to a boat there's no proof of this.
After "Titanic" was released in , Hosono's family published a letter he had written to his wife describing the sinking of the ship — explaining he had been ready to die until a crew member called out for two more people, and he hopped in with another man. According to a survivor's testimony, it was completely out of the ordinary for a Sunday to pass without a lifeboat drill. April 14, , was the last Sunday the Titanic would ever see, and the day of the sinking technically, the Titanic sank on April 15 at 2 a.
This photo was taken on April 15, , the morning after the Titanic crashed, from a ship called the SS Prinz Adalbert. The photographer hadn't even heard about the Titanic sinking yet, he just noticed that it appeared to show signs of collision , including a streak of red paint.
It was first used in for the filming of "City of Ember," and it has been part of multiple TV shows and movies since then, including "Game of Thrones. The Titanic had four smokestacks or funnels , but only three actually carried smoke from the furnaces. The fourth was said to be for ventilation and aesthetic purposes only. Days after the ship went down, newspapers began compiling lists of people who had bought tickets but never boarded the Titanic — they called them the "Just Missed It Club.
Those that narrowly escaped disaster included Milton Hershey, who decided to take an earlier ship home with his wife, J.
In addition to all that alcohol and tobacco , there were 75, pounds of fresh meat, 7, pounds of bacon, 36, oranges, 1, loaves of bread, and 40, fresh eggs on board. The Nazi re-telling of the sinking of the Titanic attempted to blame the British for the sinking of the Titanic by pushing the ship to continue at full speed, despite the warnings of a fictional German First Officer who ostensibly was the only person aboard who cared about human life.
The behind-the-scenes scandal of this movie is almost unbelievable. Before being murdered in prison for speaking against the Nazi regime, the director demanded a full-size ocean liner that he could film on, and the Nazis provided the SS Cap Arcona their version of a luxury ocean liner. Tragically, the Cap Arcona ended up being used as a floating concentration camp , and sank, resulting in 2, casualties.
Smith, who had been preparing to retire after his final journey on the Titanic, had been a captain for 40 years. Unfortunately, he'd never get to retire, as he died aboard the ship. As History notes , no one knows for sure what happened to Smith, but there are many rumors regarding his death.
Stranger still, there are people who claimed that he survived and that they'd seen him, but these sightings have been discounted. A documentary about the six missing Chinese survivors called " The Six " premiered at film festivals this year. The next day, immigration officials escorted them across Manhattan and put them on board a Cuba-bound cargo ship they had been contracted to work on.
While not well-known, there were some Garden State connections on board the Titanic, such as Henry Blank. Blank, who had been born in Providence, Rhode Island, moved to Newark as teenager. Rescued, Blank died from pneumonia on March 17, Arthur O'Keefe, who was born in Rahway and a well-known figure in the city, was aboard the Titanic as well, and perished. The city of Rahway went into mourning, and flags on government buildings were lowered to half-mast. He died in the ship's sinking.
Help MyCentralJersey continue to provide in-depth reporting like this. Find our latest subscription options and special offers here. On Sunday, April 21, , local pastors referred to the Titanic disaster in sermons or prayers. Sheridan Zelle, read, "I charge therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks, be made for all men," the words of the Apostle Paul as recorded in the second chapter of the First Epistle in Timothy, according to a report in the Courier-News on April 22, Some of the information was compiled with Encyclopedia Titanica, www.
To get unlimited access to his Pulitzer Prize-worthy work, please subscribe or activate your digital account today. Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, on April 10, Absent was financier J.
Morgan , whose International Mercantile Marine shipping trust controlled the White Star Line and who had selected Ismay as a company officer. Morgan had planned to join his associates on Titanic but canceled at the last minute when some business matters delayed him. The wealthiest passenger was John Jacob Astor IV, heir to the Astor family fortune, who had made waves a year earlier by marrying year-old Madeleine Talmadge Force, a young woman 29 years his junior, shortly after divorcing his first wife.
The employees attending to this collection of First Class luminaries were mostly traveling Second Class, along with academics, tourists, journalists and others who would enjoy a level of service and accommodations equivalent to First Class on most other ships. But by far the largest group of passengers was in Third Class: more than , exceeding the other two levels combined.
It was Third Class that was the major source of profit for shipping lines like White Star, and Titanic was designed to offer these passengers accommodations and amenities superior to those found in Third Class on any other ship of that era.
A small coal fire was discovered in one of her bunkers—an alarming but not uncommon occurrence on steamships of the day. Stokers hosed down the smoldering coal and shoveled it aside to reach the base of the blaze. After assessing the situation, the captain and chief engineer concluded that it was unlikely it had caused any damage that could affect the hull structure, and the stokers were ordered to continue controlling the fire at sea.
According to a theory put forth by a small number of Titanic experts, the fire became uncontrollable after the ship left Southampton, forcing the crew to attempt a full-speed crossing; moving at such a fast pace, they were unable to avoid the fatal collision with the iceberg. Another unsettling event took place when Titanic left the Southampton dock.
New York. Superstitious Titanic buffs sometimes point to this as the worst kind of omen for a ship departing on her maiden voyage. On April 14, after four days of uneventful sailing, Titanic received sporadic reports of ice from other ships, but she was sailing on calm seas under a moonless, clear sky.
At about p. The engines were quickly reversed and the ship was turned sharply—instead of making direct impact, Titanic seemed to graze along the side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck. Sensing no collision, the lookouts were relieved. Andrews did a quick calculation and estimated that Titanic might remain afloat for an hour and a half, perhaps slightly more.
At that point the captain, who had already instructed his wireless operator to call for help, ordered the lifeboats to be loaded. A little more than an hour after contact with the iceberg, a largely disorganized and haphazard evacuation began with the lowering of the first lifeboat. The craft was designed to hold 65 people; it left with only 28 aboard. Tragically, this was to be the norm: During the confusion and chaos during the precious hours before Titanic plunged into the sea, nearly every lifeboat would be launched woefully under-filled, some with only a handful of passengers.
In compliance with the law of the sea, women and children boarded the boats first; only when there were no women or children nearby were men permitted to board.
Yet many of the victims were in fact women and children, the result of disorderly procedures that failed to get them to the boats in the first place. Those hours witnessed acts of craven cowardice and extraordinary bravery. In the end, people survived the sinking of the Titanic.
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