The most interesting thing about the Titanic. The Titanic Story: Past and Present
Titanic - the ship that challenged higher powers. A miracle of shipbuilding and the most big ship of its time. The builders and owners of this giant passenger fleet arrogantly declared: “The Lord God himself cannot sink this ship.” However, the ship launched on its maiden voyage and did not return. This was one of the major disasters, forever included in the history of navigation. In this topic I will talk about the most key points related to the Titanic. The topic consists of two parts, the first part is the history of the Titanic before the tragedy, where I will tell you about how the ship was built and went on its fateful voyage. In the second part we will visit the bottom of the ocean, where the remains of a drowned giant lie.
First, I will briefly talk about the history of the Titanic's structure. There are a lot interesting photos ship, which depicts the construction process, mechanisms and assemblies of the Titanic, etc. So the story will go about the tragic circumstances that were destined to happen on this fateful day for the Titanic. As always happens with major disasters, the Titanic tragedy occurred due to a series of mistakes that coincided on one day. Each of these mistakes individually would not have entailed anything serious, but all together they resulted in death for the ship.
Titanic was laid down on March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of the Harland and Wolf shipbuilding company in Belfast, Northern Ireland, launched on May 31, 1911, passed sea trials on April 2, 1912. The ship's unsinkability was ensured by 15 watertight bulkheads in the hold, creating 16 conditionally watertight compartments; the space between the bottom and the second bottom flooring was divided by transverse and longitudinal partitions into 46 waterproof compartments. The first photo shows the Titanic slipway, construction is just beginning. 
The photo shows the laying of the Titanic's keel
In this photo, the Titanic is on the slipway next to the Olympic, its twin brother
And these are the huge steam engines of the Titanic 
Giant crankshaft 
This photo shows the turbine rotor of the Titanic. The huge size of the rotor stands out especially against the background of the working 
Titanic propeller shaft 
Ceremonial photo - the Titanic hull is completely assembled 
The launching process begins. The Titanic slowly sinks its hull into the water 
The giant ship almost left the slipways 
Titanic's launch is successful 
And now the Titanic is ready, the morning before the first official launching in Belfast 
The Titanic was officially launched and transported to England. The photo shows the ship in the port of Southampton before its fateful voyage. Few people know, but during the construction of the Titanic, 8 workers died. This information is available in a selection of interesting facts about the Titanic. 
And this last photo Titanic taken from shore in Ireland 
The first days of the voyage were successful for the ship, there were no signs of trouble, the ocean was completely calm. On the night of April 14, the sea remained calm, but icebergs were visible in some places in the sailing area. They did not embarrass Captain Smith... At 11:40 in the evening, a cry was suddenly heard from the observation post on the mast: “There’s an iceberg right ahead!”... Oh further events what happened on the ship is known to everyone. The “unsinkable” Titanic was unable to withstand the elements of water and sank to the bottom. As already mentioned, many factors turned against the Titanic that day. It was fatal bad luck that killed the giant ship and more than 1,500 people 
The official conclusion of the commission investigating the causes of the sinking of the Titanic stated: the steel used to sheath the hull of the Titanic was of low quality, with a large admixture of sulfur, which made it very brittle at low temperatures. If the casing were made of high-quality, tough steel with a low sulfur content, it would significantly soften the force of the impact. The metal sheets would simply bend inward and the damage to the body would not be so serious. Perhaps then the Titanic would have been saved, or at least would have remained afloat for a long time. However, for those times this steel was considered the best, there was simply no other. This was only the final conclusion; in fact, a number of other factors occurred that did not allow us to avoid a collision with the iceberg 
Let us list in order all the factors that influenced the sinking of the Titanic. The absence of any of these factors could save the ship...
First of all, it is worth noting the work of the Titanic's radio operators: the main task of the telegraph operators was to serve especially wealthy passengers - it is known that in just 36 hours of work, the radio operators transmitted more than 250 telegrams. Payment for telegraph services was made on the spot, in the radio room, and at that time it was quite large, and tips flowed like a river. Radio operators were constantly busy sending telegrams, and although they received several messages about drifting ice, they did not pay attention to them 
Some criticize the lookout's lack of binoculars. The reason for this lies in the tiny key to the binoculars box. A tiny key that opened the cabinet where the binoculars were kept could have saved the Titanic and the lives of 1,522 dead passengers. This should have happened if not for the fatal mistake of a certain David Blair. Keyman Blair was transferred from service on the “unsinkable” liner just a few days before the ill-fated voyage, but he forgot to give the key to the binocular locker to the employee who replaced him. That is why the sailors on duty at the observation tower of the liner had to rely solely on their eyes. They saw the iceberg too late. One of the crew members on watch that fateful night later said that if they had binoculars, they would have seen the ice block earlier (even if it was pitch black) and the Titanic would have had time to change course.”
Despite warnings about icebergs, the captain of the Titanic did not slow down or change the route, so confident was he that the ship was unsinkable. The speed of the ship was too high, due to which the iceberg hit the hull with maximum force. If the captain had ordered the ship's speed to be reduced in advance, upon entering the iceberg belt, then the force of the impact on the iceberg would not have been enough to break through the Titanic's hull. The captain also did not make sure that all the boats were filled with people. As a result, far fewer people were saved 
The iceberg belonged to a rare type of so-called. “black icebergs” (overturned so that their dark underwater part reaches the surface), which is why it was noticed too late. The night was windless and moonless, otherwise the lookouts would have noticed the whitecaps around the iceberg. The photo shows the same iceberg that caused the sinking of the Titanic. 
There were no red rescue flares on the ship to signal distress. Confidence in the ship's power was so high that no one even thought of equipping the Titanic with these missiles. But everything could have turned out differently. Less than half an hour after meeting the iceberg, the captain’s mate shouted:
Lights on port side, sir! The ship is five or six miles away! Boxhall clearly saw through his binoculars that it was a single-tube steamer. He tried to contact him using a signal lamp, but the unknown vessel did not respond. “Apparently, there is no radiotelegraph on the ship, they could not help but see us,” Captain Smith decided and ordered helmsman Rowe to signal with emergency flares. When the signalman opened the box with the missiles, both Boxhall and Rowe were dumbfounded: the box contained ordinary white missiles, not emergency red ones. “Sir,” Boxhall exclaimed in disbelief, “there are only white rockets here!” - Can't be! - Captain Smith was amazed. But, convinced that Boxhall was right, he ordered: “Shoot the whites.” Maybe they'll realize we're in trouble. But no one guessed, everyone thought it was festive fireworks on the Titanic 
The cargo-passenger steamer California, on a London-Boston flight, missed the Titanic on the evening of April 14, and a little over an hour later it was covered in ice and lost speed. Its radio operator Evans contacted the Titanic at about 11 p.m. and wanted to warn about the difficult ice conditions and that they were covered in ice, but the Titanic’s radio operator Philippe, who had just had difficulty establishing contact with Cape Race, rudely interrupted him: “Leave me alone!” I'm busy working with Cape Race! And Evans “fell behind”: there was no second radio operator on the California, it was a difficult day, and Evans officially closed the radio watch at 23:30, having previously reported this to the captain. As a result, all the blame for the biased investigation into the sinking of the Titanic fell on the captain of the California, Stanley Lord, who proved his innocence until his death. He was acquitted only posthumously after Hendrik Ness, captain of the ship Samson, testified... 
On the map the place where the Titanic sank
So, the night of April 14-15, 1912. Atlantic. On board the fishing vessel "Samson". "Samson" returns from a successful fishing trip, avoiding encounters with US ships. On board are several hundred slaughtered seals. The tired crew rested. The watch was kept by the captain himself and his first mate. Captain Ness was in good standing with his owners. The voyages of his ship were always successful and brought good profits. Hendrik Ness was known as an experienced and risk-taking captain, not too scrupulous about violating territorial waters or exceeding the number of animals killed. “Samson” often found himself in foreign or forbidden waters, and he was well known to US Coast Guard ships, with whom he successfully avoided close acquaintance. In a word, Hendrik Ness was an excellent navigator and a gambling, successful businessman. Here are the words of Ness, from which the whole picture of what is happening becomes clear:
“The night was amazing, starry, clear, the ocean was calm and gentle,” Ness said. “The assistant and I chatted, smoked, sometimes I went out of the control room onto the bridge, but I didn’t stay there for long - the air was absolutely freezing.” Suddenly, accidentally turning around, I saw two unusually bright stars in the southern part of the horizon. They surprised me with their brilliance and size. Shouting to the watchman to hand over the telescope, I pointed it at these stars and immediately realized that these were the masthead lights of a large ship. “Captain, I think this is a coast guard ship,” the mate said. But I thought about it myself. There was no time to figure it out on the map, but we both decided that we had entered the territorial waters of the United States. The meeting with their ships did not bode well for us. A few minutes later a white rocket flew over the horizon, and we realized that we had been discovered and were being asked to stop. I still hoped that everything would work out and we would be able to escape. But soon another rocket took off, and after some time a third... Things turned out badly: if we had been searched, I would have lost not only all the loot, but also, possibly, the ship, and we would all have gone to prison. I decided to leave.
He ordered to turn off all the lights and give full speed. For some reason we were not followed. After some time, the border ship disappeared altogether. (This is why witnesses from the Titanic claimed that they clearly saw a large steamer in the distance, leaving them. The ill-fated California at that time was sandwiched in ice and was not visible from the Titanic at all.) I ordered a change of course to the north, we were going at full speed and only slowed down in the morning. On the twenty-fifth of April we dropped anchor off Reykjavik in Iceland and only then did we learn about the Titanic tragedy from newspapers delivered by the Norwegian consul.
During the conversation with the consul, it was as if I had been hit on the head: I thought: weren’t we at the scene of the disaster then? As soon as the consul left our board, I immediately rushed to the cabin and, looking through the newspapers and my notes, realized that the dying people saw us not as the Californian, but as us. This means that it was us who were called to help with rockets. But they were white, not red, emergency ones. Who would have thought that people were dying very close to us, and we were leaving them at full speed on our reliable and large “Samson”, which had both boats and boats on board! And the sea was like a pond, quiet, calm... We could save them all! Everyone! Hundreds of people died there, and we saved stinking seal skins! But who could know about this? But we didn’t have a radiotelegraph. On the way to Norway, I explained to the crew what happened to us and warned that all of us had only one thing left to do - remain silent! If they find out the truth, we will become worse than lepers: everyone will shy away from us, we will be kicked out of the fleet, no one will want to serve with us on the same ship, no one will give us a hand or a crust of bread. And none of the team took any oath.
Hendrik Ness spoke about what happened only 50 years later, before his death. However, no one can be directly blamed for the sinking of the Titanic. If the rockets had been red, he would certainly have rushed to help. In the end, no one had time to help. Only the steamer "Carpathia", developing an unprecedented speed of 17 knots, rushed to the aid of the dying people. Captain Arthur H. Roston ordered the preparation of beds, spare clothing, food, and quarters for the rescued. At 2 hours 45 minutes, “Carpathia” began to encounter icebergs and their fragments, large ice fields. Despite the danger of a collision, the Carpathia did not slow down. At 3 hours 50 minutes on the Carpathia they saw the first boat from the Titanic, at 4 hours 10 minutes they began to save people, and by 8 hours 30 minutes the last living person was picked up. In total, Carpathia saved 705 people. And “Carpathia” delivered all those rescued to New York. The photo shows a boat from the Titanic
Now let's move on to the second part of the story. Here you will see the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in the form in which it remained after the tragedy. For seventy-three years the ship lay in its deep underwater grave as one of the countless evidence of human carelessness. The word "Titanic" has become synonymous with adventures doomed to failure, heroism, cowardice, shock and adventure. Societies and associations of surviving passengers were created. Entrepreneurs involved in the recovery of sunken ships dreamed of raising a superliner with all its countless riches. In 1985, a team of divers led by American oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard found it, and the world learned that under the enormous pressure of the water column, the giant ship broke into three parts. The wreckage of the Titanic was scattered over an area with a radius of 1600 meters. Ballard found the bow of the ship, deeply buried in the ground under the weight of own weight. Eight hundred meters away from her lay the stern. Nearby were the ruins of the middle part of the hull. Among the wreckage of the ship, various objects were scattered all over the bottom. material culture from that distant time: a set of copper kitchen utensils, wine bottles with corks, coffee cups with the logo of the White Star shipping line, toiletries, door handles, candelabra, kitchen stoves and ceramic doll heads that little children played with... One of the most amazing The underwater image captured by Dr. Ballard's movie camera was a broken sloop beam hanging limply from the side of the ship - a silent witness to a tragic night that will forever remain on the list of world disasters. The photo shows the wreck of the Titanic, taken by the Mir submersible 
Over the past 19 years, the hull of the Titanic has undergone serious destruction, the reason for which was not sea water at all, but souvenir hunters who are gradually plundering the remains of the liner. For example, the ship’s bell or mast lighthouse disappeared from the ship. In addition to direct plunder, damage to the ship is caused by time and the action of bacteria, leaving behind only rusty ruins
In this photo we see the Titanic's propeller 
Huge ship anchor 
One of the Titanic's piston engines 
Preserved underwater cup from the Titanic 
This is the same hole that formed after the encounter with the iceberg. Perhaps, in addition to weak steel, the rivets between the sheets of metal failed, and water poured into 4 compartments of the Titanic, leaving no chance of salvation. There was no point in pumping water out; it was equivalent to pumping water from ocean to ocean. The Titanic sank to the bottom, where it rests to this day. There is talk of raising the Titanic to the surface in order to set up a museum, meanwhile various souvenir lovers continue to take the ship apart piece by piece. How many more secrets does the Titanic keep? It is unlikely that anyone will answer this question in the near future. 
One of the biggest disasters of recent centuries still haunts minds. The popular film made the story of the sinking of the Titanic romantic, but it remains shocking as well. Here are interesting facts that will help you learn more about the legendary ship.
The name "Titanic" existed for more than two and a half thousand years
The Titanic disaster happened not so long ago, but its history began many centuries ago. When the creators were thinking about the name, they wanted to find a word that would help express the incredible size of the ship. In addition, it would have to express the significance of such an event in shipbuilding. Representatives of the Harland and Wolfe company, which created the ship, found the desired name in Greek mythology. The word "Titanic" is associated with the Titans, ancient Greek gods. According to legend, despite their incredible size, they were defeated by the young Olympian gods, Zeus and Athena. It is not surprising that the ship created in parallel with the Titanic was named Olympic. Both ships were built at the same time and were very similar in design.
Seven people died on the ship before sailing
People began to die on the Titanic even during its creation. Work on the ship took place more than a hundred years ago, from 1908 to 1911, and then no one was particularly concerned about the safety and health of workers. The workers didn't even wear helmets during construction! Six people died on the ship itself during its creation, and two hundred and forty-six injuries were recorded. This can be considered a bad omen - the ship seemed to be doomed immediately. There are also rumors that one worker died just before the ship departed. 
Was the Titanic really cursed? Before you think so, remember the number of victims on other construction sites of that time - alas, the lack of safety precautions can be much more harmful than curses.
The steel fastenings weighed more than one thousand two hundred tons
The Titanic's incredible size made it part of the culture even before the ship's launch. The company that designed it wanted to proudly tell passengers that it had created the largest ship in the world. Almost any fact about the size of the Titanic can be supplemented exclamation point. For example, the fasteners securing the ship's hull weighed more than a thousand tons! Separate motors were required to turn the steering wheel! The two main engines weighed more than seven hundred tons! All the details of the ship were so massive that they seem incredible even by modern standards.
Pollution from the Titanic amounted to six hundred tons of coal per day
The ship was not only the largest, but also extremely harmful for environment. The only way the movement of such a colossus in those days was a steam engine, for which the Titanic required six hundred tons of coal per day. One hundred and seventy workers worked around the clock, seven days a week, to keep the ship's engine furnaces burning. One hundred thousand tons of ash fell into the sea every day. 
The Titanic's mail room handled sixty thousand letters daily.
Interesting fact - the Titanic was not just a ship for travel, but also a ship for transporting mail. The number of messages transported was simply colossal. The ship looked more like a floating city. Passengers also used the mail - there were five clerks on the ship who sorted letters seven days a week. They had to sort up to sixty thousand envelopes a day!
The lifeboats were designed for only one thousand one hundred seventy-eight people
This fact is most strongly connected with the tragedy of the ship. Sixty-four boats could be placed along the sides, each of which could accommodate sixty-five people. This would have saved three thousand five hundred passengers. But on her first voyage the ship had only twenty boats. This was completely insufficient for the two thousand two hundred and twenty-three people on the ship. That is why the shipwreck became such a large-scale tragedy - people simply did not have a chance to escape. 
A thousand more people could have been saved
This is one of the most controversial facts. Next to the Titanic, another ship, the Californian, crossed the Atlantic that night. From there, the giant's team was warned about the ice crust. On the Californian they decided to wait out the night so as not to collide with icebergs, and the Titanic was asked to do the same. But the Titanic crew decided that precautions were not needed, and the ship continued sailing. When the ship was wrecked, the crew tried to attract the attention of other sailors. The Californian saw the lights, but did nothing. The captain decided to send a response signal to Morse using a lamp, but, most likely, the light on the Titanic was simply not noticed. When the Californian's crew learned about the disaster in the morning, it was too late to save people.
The remains of the ship were searched for more than seventy years
The wreckage of the Titanic was searched for until 1985. Only after this the story of the crash began to become clearer. For a long time it was assumed that the ship sank entirely. A passenger on the passing Carpathia described the Titanic breaking into two pieces before sinking, but this remained only a theory. In September 1985, a team of French and American researchers found the ship - it actually broke into two parts.
The most valuable thing on the ship was a painting worth one hundred thousand dollars.
The story that there was gold on board is a myth. The most expensive item on the ship was a painting, which cost one hundred thousand dollars. However, after the disaster, other things also gained value - everything that was discovered on the seabed became important because of the fame of the ship.
The film about the Titanic broke all box office records
The tragic story of the ship attracted many people to cinemas. James Cameron's film, in which Leonardo DiCaprio played, became one of the most famous in the history of cinema. This is a drama in which there are no documentary details, but the plot is quite reliable - Cameron did serious research before filming. All rooms were made exactly as they were on the ship, and the events during the disaster corresponded to the stories of eyewitnesses.
The date April 15, 1912 is marked in history by the largest maritime disaster of the 20th century - in the Atlantic, on the way from Southampton (Great Britain) to New York (USA), the largest passenger liner, the Titanic, sank upon encountering an iceberg.
The history of the Titanic, the legendary ship, is surrounded by numerous secrets and myths, widely known and not so well known. Here are some amazing facts about this legendary ship.
25. The first film about the Titanic was shot less than a month after the disaster, and the main role was played by an actress who survived the shipwreck.
24. Kim Il Sung, leader North Korea, was born on the day the liner sank.
23. There were 12 dogs on board the ship, three of them survived. The photo shows one of them.
22. The remains of the Titanic were discovered only 73 years after the disaster.
21. Kate Winslet, performer leading role in the film “Titanic” (1997), said that she really didn’t like the song My Heart Will Go On. The actress even admitted that she cringes when she hears this music.
20. Actually modern ships better chance of hitting an iceberg than the Titanic had.
19. The iceberg that the ship collided with (pictured) began its journey about two thousand years ago.
18. None of the ship's 30 mechanics survived. They remained in the engine room and kept the steam engines running as long as possible so that the remaining passengers could escape. The photo shows the engine room of the Titanic.
17. More than half of the passengers could fit into the liner’s boats, but hardly a third of them actually managed to do so.
16. 13 newlywed couples went on the Titanic for their honeymoon.
15. Most expensive rooms on a ship today would cost more than $100,000.
14. The only Japanese survivor of the disaster was ostracized and called a coward for not dying with the other passengers.
13. Although the ship was able to stay afloat when four compartments were flooded in a row, six of them were damaged on the fateful night.
12. Apart from the Titanic, no liner in history has ever been sunk by an iceberg.
11. Hershey’s Chocolate founder Milton Hershey canceled his reservation at last moment due to urgent business meetings.
10. The Titanic was so huge that it took 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink.
8. There is a version that the main cause of the death of the Titanic was the effect of an ice mirage, which hid the real outlines of the iceberg from observers, thereby preventing the disaster from being prevented in time. This is indirectly evidenced by the testimony of survivors who spoke about incredibly bright stars that night.
7. The chef of an A la Carte restaurant drank so much alcohol that he was able to withstand the terrible Atlantic cold for two hours.
Irina Alksnis, for RIA Novosti
Continuing story with Russian participation in PACE can serve as a vivid illustration of the processes of degradation that the Western political system is experiencing.
Essentially, everything that is happening is yet another confirmation that the system, originally built on the power of words and oriented towards dialogue, has ceased to accept them in principle. European parliamentarism no longer understands well; neither rational arguments nor calls to follow own principles. There is no longer a choice between the carrot and the stick - to force European system to come to adequacy, now it makes sense to use only and exclusively the whip.
Three years - three years! - Russia showed immense patience in relations with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, convinced and tried to prove that depriving the Russian delegation of its vote and other rights was counterproductive. Everything was useless.
However, as soon as in the summer of 2017 Russian payments (and not all, but only part) to the budget of the Council of Europe were stopped until the powers of the Russian delegation in PACE were restored, the process immediately shifted from dead center. The tone of the statements has changed radically; there have even been admissions that without Russia, interparliamentary dialogue is unbalanced.
And now the first meeting has already taken place working group on harmonizing the work of the Council of Europe and PACE bodies with the participation of Russian representatives, and the Russians were impressed by how productive and successful (contrary to fears) everything went.
And the reasons are simple - money.
According to Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen, in 2017 Russia “underpaid” 22.3 million euros in contributions to the Council of Europe. If she continues in the same spirit, in 2018 the Council of Europe will lose more than 32 million more in its budget. And considering that due to the deterioration of European-Turkish relations, Ankara also decided not to pay its dues, which means the loss of another 20 million euros, things look very bad for the Council of Europe.
An impressive hole has formed in the budgets of the Council of Europe and PACE, which is virtually impossible to plug with other sources.
It is not surprising that this makes the leadership of both organizations nervous. Recently, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorjern Jagland said that Russia is obliged to pay its contribution in February. Russia's response (in the person of Federation Council member Alexei Pushkov) was not long in coming and, in fact, boiled down to a modified classic: chairs in the morning, money in the evening.
Given that mentioned - and appreciated Russian participants as quite successful - the meeting of the ad hoc commission took place the next day, Russia's response regarding the payment of contributions was obviously heard. Another evidence that the leadership of the Council of Europe and PACE is clearly correcting its course towards Russia was Ukraine’s extremely painful reaction to what was happening. There was some hysteria among Ukrainian politicians regarding the meeting that took place.
Ukrainian deputies shared the glaring details of what happened. The way they were not allowed into the event, “and they even posted security so that no one would get through,” allowing only the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Vladimir Ariev, to the meeting. The way Russian representatives demonstrated “cynical superiority in relation to other delegations of equal rights”, brazenly declaring that they would not implement the resolutions, even if they were returned to PACE.
In general, “there has never been such a shame before.”
At the same time, representatives of Ukraine look at the situation quite soberly and are convinced that the leadership of the Council of Europe and PACE is looking for ways to return - and quickly - Russia to the Assembly. Even if for this they will need to make changes to the organization’s regulations (for example, adjusting the norm that the national delegation can submit lists of its deputies to participate in PACE sessions only in January).
True, Ukrainian politicians have a serious hope that in the end “this cynical deal - “financing in exchange for values” - will not work, since other national delegations will not allow this.
It must be admitted that they have certain grounds for such hopes.
PACE, in essence, is a talking shop that does not decide anything, the only value of which is to maintain inter-parliamentary dialogue. However, the situation has developed in such a way that the loudest anti-Russian and Russophobic voices are heard from representatives of uninfluential and peripheral European national-bureaucratic regimes - from the Baltic states to Ukraine. We can probably consider this a form of compensation for the fact that these countries do not have any leverage on truly important European issues.
Moreover, the situation is such that the return of the Russian delegation to PACE really depends on these countries. And they can make very serious efforts to prevent this from happening. However, this is not a problem for Russia, which is not a problem, but for the leadership of the Council of Europe and PACE, which have a huge hole in their budget. And the wind in big European politics has clearly changed from anti-Russian to restoring relations with our country, so the Council of Europe needs to follow the trends.
But this is not so easy to do, given the self-cultivated sentiments and attitudes of a significant part of the national delegations in PACE.
So we have to act in a roundabout way: transfer events from open format closed, remove inconvenient participants, conduct behind-the-scenes negotiations and find loopholes in documents. But the CE leadership has no one to blame but itself.
As for Russia, it has nowhere to rush. It can afford to wait and watch how the Council of Europe and PACE will pull themselves out of the hole that they themselves dug.
On Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. After the release of the 1997 film, almost all of humanity knew the basic details about this tragedy. But some interesting facts were not mentioned in the film. At the time of construction, the Titanic was the largest of the ships. While most companies built their boats for speed, the owners of the Titanic wanted to build a ship for luxury. At that time there were no trucks, so it took twenty horses to deliver just one anchor. More than 14,000 people worked on the ship with 50-hour work weeks to complete it on time. I bring to your attention 13 interesting facts about the Titanic that you might not know.
Dimensions
The Titanic was much smaller than most modern cruise ships. Royal Caribbean International owns the largest ship in the world, the Allure of the Seas. The Charm was built in 2008 and can accommodate up to 6,300 people, while the Titanic could only accommodate 2,435. Almost all of the Charm of the Seas' characteristics are approximately double those of the Titanic, including length, weight, and even the number of crew members.
Rescue boats
When the Titanic was designed, the design included 64 lifeboats. This amount was more than enough to save all crew members and passengers on board. Unfortunately, only some of the rescue boats were installed on the ship. The owners thought that the boats would spoil the view and irritate passengers, so they installed only 20 boats. As a result, even these boats were not completely filled due to the panic that arose. Almost all the men remained on the deck of the sinking ship, as the rule “women and children first” was in effect.
Pollution
Cruise ships pollute the water and the atmosphere, and the Titanic was no exception. 29 boilers continuously burned coal to provide electricity and propel the giant ship. 825 tons of coal were used in just one day, releasing almost 100 tons of ash into the atmosphere.
Ritz interior
No, the Titanic did not completely copy the interior of the Ritz Hotel in London, but the designers were inspired by it. The five-star hotel was one of the most luxurious places in London at the time of the Titanic's creation, and remains so to this day. The luxury cruise ship had all the facilities for a royal holiday on board, including a gym for first class passengers and a petting area for their pets.
Casualties during construction
The Titanic took 26 months to build. During this time, eight workers died and 246 injuries were reported. The very first victim was Samuel Scott, a fifteen-year-old teenager. He died as a result of a skull fracture, but the exact reasons were carefully hidden by his employer. Even tombstone It was placed in Belfast Cemetery only almost 100 years after his death.
Movie
The Titanic was launched on April 15, 1912, at a cost of almost seven and a half million dollars. The actual amount, adjusted for inflation, would be approximately $166 million in current currency. In 1997, the most popular movie about the Titanic was made for $200,000,000. Thus, making and filming the film was more expensive than the cost of building the ship.
Sisters
The Titanic was one of a trio of ships of the same type. The other two ships are the Olympic and the Britannic. Olympic was the first of three ships and set sail on June 14, 1911 (to New York). In September of the same year, Olympic collided with a cruiser and began repairs. After the Titanic disaster, the government issued new requirements for safety systems on cruise ships. The third ship of the same type (Britanic) hit a mine on November 21, 1916 and sank.
Bottle
Many believe that the rite of baptism is great way protect yourself from adversity and failure. Baptism is also practiced for courts, and this ritual is more than five thousand years old. The creators of the three cruise ships did not believe in the ceremony, and held it only for the Titanic. The problem was that the bottle of champagne did not break when it hit the side of the ship. Many still believe that the cause of the disaster was an unsuccessful baptism.
A curse
It is difficult to determine the origins of certain rumors, especially when it comes to curses. After the Titanic disaster, people began to say that the reason for everything was the curse of the people who died during construction. Others spoke of the famous Hope Diamond, which was on board during the voyage. Dozens of other reasons were also given, each of which is original in its own way.
Book about Titan
Morgan Robertson wrote The Crash of the Titan in 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic disaster in the Atlantic Ocean. The book takes place on a ship called the Titan, which also collided with an iceberg in April, as did the Titanic fourteen years after the book's publication. Most people think that the author was a psychic, since there were so many coincidences between the book and the disaster. There were almost the same number of people in the book, and there weren't enough boats for everyone.
Moon
We all know that the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, but there is a possibility that the Moon had something to do with it. On the night of the disaster, the Moon was terribly close to the Earth. According to scientists, the light of the moon could have prevented the iceberg from being detected in a timely manner. Perhaps it was this unusual event that caused the tragic event.
The rescue
Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic in 1985 using two submarines. The ship has lain underwater for more than 100 years, and researchers are now trying to save the disintegrating vessel from numerous threats, including divers who want to touch it themselves. great history. Ballard and his crew are working hard to protect and preserve the Titanic for years to come.
Iceberg
On the fateful night, the ship was sent a message warning of an iceberg. The message did not have a note of high importance, so the captain simply did not see it. The iceberg wasn't too big size and most of it was hidden under water. The sea was very calm, which also prevented the iceberg from being discovered in a timely manner. The Titanic was traveling at a speed of 22.5 knots (equivalent to 29 miles per hour) when it struck the giant mountain of ice.
