1. The Titanic went down with about 1,500 people on board
2. Titanic was one of the first ships to use the new SOS distress signal
3.Carpathia was the ship that rescued the survivors.
4. Eight distress rockets were fired while she sank. The first was sent off at 12:45 a.m. on April 15.
5. The last radio call for help was sent out at 2:17 am.
7.Titanic was 882 feet 9 inchs long.
8.The anchors weighed 15 1/2 tons each.
9. The ice field Titanic encountered was 78 miles long.
10.The boilers of Titanic were over 15 feet high.
12.Titanic sank approximately 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. She lays near the edge of the undersea continental shelf.
13.Dr. Robert Ballard found the Titanic. He was also the first person to see her after that fateful night.
14. The Wreck of The Titan, by Morgan Robertson, was written 14 years before the Titanic set sail. It predicted exactly what would happen to Titanic.
15.If placed upright, the Titanic would have been taller than any of the buildings in her day.
17.Titanic's nicknames included: "The Millionaire's Special","The Unsinkable Ship" and "The Last Line in Luxury"
18.Edward J. Smith was the captain of Titanic. After 38 years of service with White Star Line, this was suppose to be his last voyage. He went down with the ship and his body was never found.
19.Titanic had many rooms that were extra luxurys. They included: A squash racquet court, a pool, a gymnasium, and a turkish bath.
20.The Titanic's swimming pool was one of the first ever seen on an ocean.
21.The Titanic had three propellers. The middle one was 16 feet across, and the other two were over 23 feet across.
22. The Titanic almost collided with the New York at the being of the voyage. The huge wakes that the Titanic created broke the ropes the held the New York to her dock. Some quick thinking saved the ship by inches.
23.There were two distress calls at the time. The old CQD (come quickly distress) and the newly formed SOS. It does not stand for Save Our Ship. It was picked because of the ease of sending it out and hearing it.
24.Many passengers on board the Carpathia took photos of the iceberg the thought brought down the mighty giant. The berg was given away by a red paint smear that was on it.
25. Titanic's watertight doors could be closed at the flick of a switch.
27. Titanic ws the largest man-made object of her time.
28. When the bow broke off, it raced to the bottom at a rate of 60 miles an hour.
29. Titanic weighed 46,328 tons.
30. Titanic was constructed by Harland & Wollf Shipping Company.
32. It took approximately 14,000 workers to build Titanic.
33. It took approximately one year to build Titanic.
34. One reason Titanic sunk was that her rudder was to small. If her rudder had been bigger, the ship would have turned faster and may have avoided colliding with the iceberg all together.
35. Titanic had an electric light in every room.
36. 7 million manhours went into making Titanic.
37. 37 seconds passed from the sighting of the iceberg to the collision
38. On November 18, 1929 the Grand Banks Earthquake was thought to have triggered a huge underwater mudslide which some thought buried Titanic.
39. A mummy princess named Amen-Ra was secretly stowed on Titanic. Her spirits are said to have killed over ten people before being on the Titanic. It is said that she was cursed and caused the great liner to go down. See "What Really Happened" for more on Amen-Ra
40. The price of a First class ticket in 1912 was $4,700, today it would cost $50,000.
41. Titanic was speeding towards the ice field at 22½ knots, compared to Carpathia's 9 knots when she came for surviviors.
42. Carpathia normally strained to make 12 knots, but reached a maximum speed of 17 knots as she rused to the rescue of Titanic.
43. A Texas oilman named Jack Grimm made three unsucessful attempts to find the wreck of Titanic. In 1980, 1981, and 1983.
44. 472 seats in the lifeboats were empty.
45. 2 dogs survived the sinking.
46. Titanic was never Christened.
47. There were 900 tons of baggage and freight on the Titanic.
48. The Titanic used 14,00 gallons of drinking water a day.
49. There were 9 decks which made the ship 104ft tall, from the keel to bridge, or 135ft in total from keel to the top of the funnels. 35ft of this was below the water line.
50. Out of the 4 funnels, 3 were real. The fourth (nearest the stern) was used to vent smoke from the kitchens and galleys. It was also used to make the ship more impressive.
