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TITANIC FACTS
The cost of the most expensive First Class Parlor ticket to New York was $4,350 — about $69,600 today.
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The first-class dining saloon was sheathed in hand-cut mahogany paneling.
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The first-class smoking lounge was for men only.
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First-class passenger Eleanor Widener wore a famous multi-strand pearl necklace then valued at $250,000.
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Many of the first-class female passengers left the Titanic still dressed in the silk evening gowns they had worn to dinner.
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A new Renault car was part of Titanic's cargo.
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The Titanic was stocked with 20,000 bottles of beer and stout, 1,500 bottles of wine and 8,000 cigars for use by first-class passengers.
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The last dinner served in the first-class saloon consisted of 11 courses.
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Buglers called first-class passengers to dinner by playing "The Roast Beef of Old England."
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First-class passengers were given copies of "The White Star Music Book" containing 352 songs so they could make requests. The musicians had to know all the titles.
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About 60% of the first-class passengers survived.
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Second-class accommodations were equivalent to first class in most other ocean liners of the time.
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Most third-class cabins contained four to six bunks.
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Third-class passengers could hear the loud roar of the ship's engines in their cabins at all times.
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Only two bathtubs were available for more than 700 third-class passengers — one for men, one for women.
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Gates separating the third-class spaces from the other classes were kept locked even after the collision, according to some firsthand reports.
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About 42% of the second-class passengers aboard survived.
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About 25% of the third-class passengers survived.
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The iceberg was spawned from a glacier in Greenland.
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One recent scientific theory holds that the moon's extremely close approach to Earth on Jan. 4, 1912, created such strong tides that it sent an array of icebergs south into the Titanic's path.
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The Titanic's launch was delayed by six weeks because her sister ship Olympic needed repairs in the same dry dock. That delay put seasonal icebergs right in the Titanic's path.
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Titanic Capt. Edward Smith did try to avoid ice danger by altering the ship's course to the south after receiving warnings of icebergs from other ships.
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At 11:40 p.m., Frederick Fleet was the first person on the Titanic to see the iceberg, describing it as something "even darker than the darkness."
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The berg was about 100 feet tall.
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At 32 degrees, the iceberg was warmer than the water Titanic passengers fell into that night. The ocean waters were 28 degrees, below the freezing point but not frozen because of the water's salt content.
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A recent story in Smithsonian magazine theorizes that atmospheric conditions on the night of the sinking created optical illusions that prevented the Titanic's lookouts from seeing the iceberg.
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The Titanic's lookout was not equipped with binoculars to see icebergs in time to avoid collision.
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First Officer William Murdoch attempted to turn the ship to swing it past the berg.
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From the lookout's first sighting to impact with the berg took only about 37 seconds.
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Passengers had different descriptions for how the collision felt, from "a slight tremor" to — as described in "Shadow of the Titanic" — "as though The Titanic had passed over a thousand marbles."