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DID YOU KNOW...?
• In response to an early ice warning message from the Californian, a Titanic wireless operator replied, "Shut up, shut up, I am busy." (Chapter 2)
• First-class Titanic passengers could partake of herring, haddock, smoked salmon, grilled mutton, lamh chops, and sirloin steak—for breakfast. (Chapter 3)
• There were 36 ships in the North Atlantic when the Titanic sank and only one, the Carpatbia, came to her assistance. (Chapter 4)
• The cost of an oar for one of the Titanic's lifeboats was $1.33. (chapter 5)
• Titanic's owner, American millionaire J. P .Morgan, was scheduled to sail on the ship’s maiden voyage but canceled his trip at the last moment. (Chapter 6)
• The White Star Line had the Titanic insured for $5 million—even though a total loss would cost it much more than that. The company self-insured for the difference. (Chapter 9)
• On April 15, 1912, the New York Evening Sun ran on its front page the headline "All Saved From Titanic After Collision." (Chapter 15)
• "Unsinkable" Molly Brown's insurance claim for the clothes and property she lost when the Titanic sank totaled $27.887 and hers was one of the lowest claims filed. (Chapter 18)
• In a scathing 1912 essay about the sinking of Titanic, novelist and mariner Joseph Conrad described the frenzied press coverage of the tragedy as a "feverish exploitation of a sensational God-send." (Chapter 19)
• An 1898 novella seems to have predicted the Titanic disaster. (Chapter 26)
• In the summer of 1996, a fifteen-ton piece of the Titanic's hull was brought within 200 feet of the oceans surface, only to crash back to the bottom, where it remained undisturbed ten miles away from the rest of the wreck—until the summer of 1998 when RMS Titanic successfully raised it. (Chapter 28)
• James Cameron s $200 million blockbuster epic "Titanic" contains 40 "bloopers." including one in which Leonardo DiCaprio s character Jack refers to a manmade lake in Wisconsin that was not dug until two years after the ship sank. (Chapter 31)
• Titanic's enormous cargo included such varied items as anchovies, auto parts, surgical instruments, and tennis balls. (Appendix)
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COMPILATION OF TITANIC INFORMATION TO DATE
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