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TITANIC FACTS
If only four of the Titanic's watertight compartments had been breached, it would have stayed afloat. The iceberg sliced through six.
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If the ship had hit the berg head on, Titanic probably would have survived because of the strength of its bulkheads.
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The Titanic's crew failed to fire correct distress signals after hitting the iceberg. Random rockets were fired, but according to the British inquiry into the wreck, the message sent by the rockets' pattern never signaled "distress." Instead, the incorrect rocket pattern signaled to any ship in the area the message: "I'm having navigation problem. Please stand clear."
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The Titanic held no passenger lifeboat drills during its voyage.
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A nearby vessel could be seen off the port side of the Titanic, but the ship's identity remains a mystery. The ship probably was either the Californian or a sealer called the Sampson. Had it responded, the ship would have arrived in time to save many Titanic passengers.
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The waltz "Songe d'Automne," not "Nearer My God to Thee," was almost certainly the last song played by the Titanic orchestra, although the debate about the last song continues.
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The musicians played for two hours and five minutes as the ship sank.
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The ship's doom was hastened when crewman opened a gangway door to try to load lifeboats from a lower level. They couldn't reclose it, and seawater rushed in.
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The final SOS position the Titanic sent out was incorrect.
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The ship broke in two in its final moments.
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The Titanic went under the waves at 2:20 a.m. ship's time April 15, about 400 miles off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
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The rescue ship Carpathia began taking in Titanic survivors at 4:10 a.m.
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Tennis players Dick Williams and Karl Behr survived and eventually would become teammates on the U.S. Davis Cup Team.
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Margaret "Molly" Brown, social activist, U.S. Senate candidate and estranged wife of a Colorado silver mine operator, would go on to become famous in Hollywood as "The Unsinkable." During the Titanic sinking, she famously told the crewman on her lifeboat that she would throw him overboard if he kept berating the women.
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Perfume salesman Adolphe Saalfeld lost his sample case of bottles in the sinking. He survived. Decades later, the bottles and the scents inside were recovered from the Titanic wreck and exhibited.
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Lady Duff Gordon, one of the biggest fashion designers of her time, and her husband, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, both were saved but were later accused of bribing the crew to row off with only 12 people in their lifeboat. They both eventually were cleared.
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Third-class passenger Rhoda Abbott jumped from the Titanic deck along with her two sons. The two boys drowned, but Abbott was the only female Titanic survivor to be pulled from the water.
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Chief Baker Charles Joughin helped load bread into the lifeboats. Apparently immunized to freezing cold waters by the whiskey he had drunk, Joughin reportedly survived several hours swimming in the ocean before being rescued.
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An Italian emigrant aboard the Titanic, who leaped into the sea when the last lifeboat was lowered, swam to the side of a lifeboat and was dragged in when he said he had a bottle of whiskey, Alice Johnson, a passenger in the lifeboat, told friends.
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G. Wikeman, the Titanic's barber, reported he'd been blown off the ship during one of its explosions.
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J. Bruce Ismay, owner of the Titanic, jumped in a lifeboat and was rowed away. He spent the rest of his life mostly in seclusion in Ireland.
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Of the 12 dogs onboard the Titanic, only three survived its sinking: a Pekingese and two Pomeranians.
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Archibald Butt, aide to Presidents William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, had taken a vacation to recover after finding himself in the middle of a feud between the two presidents he'd served. He went down with the ship.
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William Thomas Stead, one of the founders of investigative journalism, who exposed the evils of child prostitution, was last seen sitting in a leather chair reading a book.
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Macy's department store partner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, died together. Ida reportedly had her foot on the edge of a lifeboat and was about to climb in. Instead, she returned to her husband and shared his fate.
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The body of the richest man on board, John Jacob Astor, was found with his gold pocket watch dangling from its chain. Investigators believed Astor had checked his watch right before leaping from the Titanic.
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Millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim put his mistress into a lifeboat and then changed into evening wear to await the ship's fatal plunge.
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All eight members of the Titanic band died in the sinking.
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Joseph Laroche, a native of Haiti and an engineer, was the only black passenger reported on board. He died in the wreck.
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3,500 bags of mail were lost.