TRUE FACTS ABOUT TITANIC
The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.
Survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, which was 58 miles southeast of Titanic when it received the distress call.
Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
The wreckage of Titanic was located in 1985, 12,500 feet down, about 350 miles (531 km) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada
A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic cost $4,350, which translates into $90,000 in 2006 USD.
Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic tragedy, died in Massachusetts on May 6, 2006, at age 99. Her mother and a brother also survived, but her father and three other brothers perished.
Two other survivors live in England.
Eleanor Shuman, who was the inspiration for Kate Winslet's Rose, died on March 7, 1998, at age 8
Survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, which was 58 miles southeast of Titanic when it received the distress call.
Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical camel.
The wreckage of Titanic was located in 1985, 12,500 feet down, about 350 miles (531 km) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada
A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic cost $4,350, which translates into $90,000 in 2006 USD.
Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic tragedy, died in Massachusetts on May 6, 2006, at age 99. Her mother and a brother also survived, but her father and three other brothers perished.
Two other survivors live in England.
Eleanor Shuman, who was the inspiration for Kate Winslet's Rose, died on March 7, 1998, at age 8
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