As the Titanic was the height of luxury in 1912, some celebrities had tickets for its maiden voyage. But not all of them ended up boarding the ship. J. Pierpont Morgan and Milton Hershey were among those who missed the disaster.
Quartermaster Robert Hichens was accused of refusing to return to rescue passengers after taking charge of a lifeboat on the sinking ship. He was later branded a bully and coward.
It was his intention to sail on the great liner originally, but finding that it would reach New York later than he desired to land he booked on the German Liner Amerika, which arrived several days ago. As the Titanic began to sink on the night of April 15, the ship's crew enforced a “women-and-children-first” protocol.
As the Titanic was the height of luxury in 1912, some celebrities had tickets for its maiden voyage. But not all of them ended up boarding the ship. J. Pierpont Morgan and Milton Hershey were among those who missed the disaster.
There are fears that during retrieval, the Titanic wreck would disintegrate into pieces, making it impossible to have something concrete by the time the remains reach the sea surface. There are documented reports that metal-eating bacteria has already consumed most of Titanic's wreckage.
Bruce Ismay, in full Joseph Bruce Ismay, (born December 12, 1862, Crosby, near Liverpool, England—died October 17, 1937, London), British businessman who was chairman of the White Star Line and who survived the sinking of the company's ship Titanic in 1912.
Introduction. 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.
Yes, people did sue after the sinking of the Titanic. A number of lawsuits were filed against the White Star Line, the owners of the Titanic, for negligence.
No, Rose and Jack Dawson, played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio respectively, aren't based on real people in Titanic – however, certain facets of Winslet's character were inspired by the American artist Beatrice Wood.
Undoubtedly the wealthiest man to go down with the Titanic and the Astor family was very prominent. Most notably with building the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. According to Insider, his wife was pregnant and Astor wanted the child born a U.S. citizen so they booked their trip home on Titanic.
Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun; February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a German-American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus, U.S. Congressman and co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband died during the sinking of the Titanic.
Before Leonardo DiCaprio said yes to playing Jack Dawson in Titanic, many actors were considered for the role, including Tom Cruise, Macaulay Culkin, Ethan Hawke, Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp. However, Johnny refused the role because the script was too long of 180 pages.
There are no survivors of the Titanic alive today
The very longest-living person to have survived the Titanic died on the 31st of May 2009. Her name was Elizabeth Gladys 'Millvina' Dean, and she was just two months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family.
From the beginning, some blamed the Titanic's skipper, Captain E.J. Smith, for sailing the massive ship at such a high speed (22 knots) through the iceberg-heavy waters of the North Atlantic. Some believed Smith was trying to better the crossing time of Titanic's White Star sister ship, the Olympic.
Though cleared of blame by the official British inquiry, Ismay never recovered from the Titanic disaster. Already emotionally repressed and insecure before his voyage on Titanic, the tragedy sent him into a state of deep depression from which he never truly emerged. He kept a low profile afterwards.
White Star paid nothing until December 1915, when they agreed to pay compensation of $664,000 to to be be divided amongst the survivors. Worked out at about $950 per person. Adjusted for inflation, that works out to be $22,000. Disgraceful in my opinion.
The story of Charles Joughin - Titanic | The National Archives\x22,\x22Joughin survived the sinking, swimming to upturned collapsible lifeboat B and remaining by it until he was picked up by one of the other lifeboats. Charles Joughin, The Drunk Baker, Who Survived Titanic By Swimming In Icy Cold Water For Hours ...
Charles Joughin testified that he was off duty, in his bunk, when the accident happened. He sent his bakers up with over 50 loaves of bread to provision the lifeboats and returned to his room for a drink. He then went up to the boat deck to get to his assigned lifeboat (ten) on the port side of the ship.
Along with the other survivors, he was eventually rescued by the RMS Carpathia, which arrived at the wreck site at 4.10 a.m. Joughin believed that his extraordinary survival was due to the vast quantity of whisky he had drunk. Not so fortunate were 1,517 of his fellow crew and passengers.
Efforts to locate and salvage the Titanic began almost immediately after it sank. But technical limitations—as well as the sheer vastness of the North Atlantic search area—made it extremely difficult.
Shortly before midnight on April 14 it struck an iceberg 1 300 miles (4 000 km.) northeast of New York and sank in just two hours and 40 minutes.
A newly discovered species of rust-eating bacterium found on the ship has been named Halomonas titanicae, which has been found to cause rapid decay of the wreck. Henrietta Mann, who discovered the bacteria, has estimated that the Titanic will completely collapse possibly as soon as 2030.