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Some Titanic Facts To Discover

• 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.
• $7,500,000 – the cost of building the RMS Titanic.
• 2 – the number of workers killed during the build.

: having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal a titanic struggle.

The root word titan is derived from Greek mythology. The Titans were a race of powerful deities. The adjective titanic can now refer to anything extremely large or strong. The Titanic was the name of the famous cruise ship that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

(taɪtænɪk ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as titanic, you mean that it is very big or important, and usually that it involves very powerful forces.

However, it is generally believed that of the ship’s approximately 2,200 passengers and crew members, some 1,500 people perished when the ship sank. According to the U.S. committee investigating the sinking, 1,517 lives were lost, and its British counterpart determined that 1,503 died.

After the Titanic sank, searchers recovered 340 bodies. Thus, of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160 bodies remain lost.

Arlo Gleich. > > he encountered a shark near the wreck. Yes, but at that point the area surrounding where the Titanic sunk was just chalk-full of hundreds of bodies. After a while when the some of the bodies drifted into warmer waters sharks would’ve ate them.

Old Rose does not say if she had a baby with Jack. Even if she did conceive the one time that they had sex, the ensuing trauma of the sinking may have ended any chance of a pregnancy being carried to term. And please keep in mind Rose DeWitt-Bukater and Jack Dawson were fictitious characters.

He was the richest passenger on-board the Titanic.

• SURVIVED: Archibald Gracie IV, historian and author.
• DIED: W.T. Stead, investigative journalist.
• SURVIVED: Noël Leslie, countess and philanthropist.
• DIED: Thomas Andrews, architect of the Titanic.
• SURVIVED: The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
• DIED: John Thayer, railroad executive.

Of the 109 children traveling on the Titanic, almost half were killed when the ship sank – 53 children in total.

The RMS Titanic has been underwater for more than 100 years, lying about 600km (370 miles) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The Titanic expedition was carried out by the same team that recently made the deepest-ever plunge to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which lies nearly 12km down the Pacific Ocean.

Many schemes have been proposed to raise Titanic, including filling the wreck with ping-pong balls, injecting it with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using half a million tons of liquid nitrogen to encase it in an iceberg that would float to the surface.

Around two-thirds of the bodies recovered after the sinking were transported to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada for burial, whilst a third were buried at sea.

Millvina Dean

Because they had been hired by an outside contractor, White Star deemed them passengers rather than employees, which meant their dependants were not entitled to workmen’s compensation. White Star agreed to pay $665,000 — about $430 for each life lost on the Titanic.

In the story, only 200 passengers and crew members of the original 700 people on board survive the disaster, due to a lifeboat shortage. According to Biography.com, Stead didn’t hang around on deck as the Titanic sank.

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After the Titanic sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, hundreds of the survivors, families of victims, and owners of cargo filed claims against the White Star Line for loss of life, property, and for injuries sustained. Their claims totaled $16.4 million.

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Who sketched Jack’s drawing of Rose that we see in the movie Titanic? It is actually Cameron’s hand, not Leonardo DiCaprio’s, that we see sketching Rose in the movie. James Cameron also drew all of the pictures in Jack’s sketchbook.