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Interesting Fan Theories About the Movie Titanic

March 7, 2015

The movie Titanic came out in 1997, but even though it has been 18 years, the movie is touched so many people that they are still talking it it even today. One of the biggest issues that fans still have with the movie is the death of Jack Dawson, and many fans have even come up […]

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The Best Films About the Titanic

March 3, 2015

As a Titanic historian, I have seen every single movie, and documentary, that has ever been made about the RMS Titanic. Naturally, some of those movies have been fantastic, but there have been some that were not so great. For those of you that are interested in movies about the Titanic, here is a list of the movies […]

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Titanic – A Review of the 1953 Moving Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb

January 5, 2014

The rights of a mother to protect her children, and do what is best for them, plays a very big part in this movie. The movie Titanic came out in 1953, and starred Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb, and Robert Wagner. While the movie does take place aboard the Titanic¸ the story actually involves the married […]

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A Review of Titanic 2 – 100 Years Later Lightning Strikes Twice

December 29, 2013

Titanic 2 was made by The Asylum, a production company known for its fine selection of B-rated movies including the mega-hit Sharknado. The movie stars Marie Westbrook, Bruce Davison, and Shane Van Dyke, who not only wrote and directed Titanic 2, but is also the grandson of comedic legend, Dick Van Dyke. Shane Van Dyke […]

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A Review of Raise the Titanic – “God Himself they said couldn’t sink her…”

December 7, 2013

Raise the Titanic is a novel by the popular author Clive Cussler. In 1980, the book that Cussler wrote was adapted for the big screen, and it came out five years before the real RMS Titanic was actually found on the ocean floor. While the movie featured an all-star cast including Jason Robards, Alec Guinness, […]

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The Sad Story

Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship leaved Southampton with 2224 passengers aboard, including some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of poor emigrants from Europe seeking a new life in North America. The ship had advanced safety features, but there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Only 1,178 people can be carried in lifeboats.

Four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship's time. The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded.

By 2:20 AM, the giant ship broke apart and foundered, with over 1000 people still aboard. Just under two hours after the sinking, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard about 705 survivors.
Small Numbers

74: The number of years it took to find the wreck of the Ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

64 : The number of lifeboats supposed to be aboard the ship.

20 : The number of lifeboats she actually carried.

65: Maximum capacity of a lifeboat.

28 : The number of people on board the first lifeboat.

2 : The number of workers killed during the construction process.

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The Unsinkable Ship !

Who doesn’t know about Titanic? The famous British ship that was designed to be unsinkable, but it finally sank on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its long trip from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. About 1,500 people died, and the largest ship made at the time led to one of the biggest disasters in modern history.
Big Numbers

$7,500,000 : The total cost of building the RMS Titanic.

12,600 feet : The depth at which the wreck of the ship lays.

882 feet : The length of the ship.

3,547 : The maximum number of people the ship could carry.

2,223 : The number of people aboard, including passengers and crew.

1,178: The number of people that could be carried in the lifeboats.

705 : The number of people who survived the tragedy.