10 Interesting Facts About Titanic
5. Also, the numbers of lifeboats were only half the amount of actual number of passengers on board.
6. It is believed that the Titanic had been warned of the iceberg even before the disaster actually took place. However, captain Smith underestimated the size of the iceberg and made a wrong call about continuing on a high speed.
7. A book named ‘Wreck of the Titan’ was written in 1989, even before the titanic ship as designed. The book describes a ship traveling at top speed that collides with an iceberg and sinks. The similarity between the book and the real incident is chilling.
8. Prior to beginning its sail, the titanic was loaded with 100 bottles of wine, 75000 pounds of fresh meat and almost 40,000 eggs.
9. The highest speed of the Titanic was around 23 knots and the ship consumed almost 825 tons of coal everyday.
10. 1503 people died in total (including crew members). Only 706 people on board survived. April 14th 2012 was Titanic’s, its passengers’ and crews’ 100th death anniversary.
