Titanic: little known facts most famous shipwreck

Unfortunate it was already the beginning of the navigation
Witnesses of the descent of "Titanic" on the water stated that the tradition broke on Board the vessel was not barbita a bottle of champagne. Whether the owners of the ship were not superstitious people, whether wanted to preserve the image of the flooding of the vessel, now hard to say, but the fact remains.
The Construction Of The Titanic.
When the Titanic departed from the pier of Southampton port, he almost to be not converged with the American liner "New York city". To avoid the collision only happened at the last minute, and the ship kept sailing.



The interior liner was struck by the magnificence, and the service — luxury
The ticket for the ship in a first class cabin cost the equivalent in today's money close to twenty thousand dollars. Strongly emphasized that in the first flight "Titanic" it will be ten millionaires, and gold in the vaults will be stored on hundreds of millions of dollars. Luxury, comfort and service the liner can be compared with the most expensive hotels.
The higher the ticket price, the greater the chances of rescue
According to statistics, most of the passengers who managed to escape, traveled the second and first class. In particular of the 143 women who sailed in first class, only 4 died, and only because I didn't want to go down to the boat. In the third class died than 50% of the passengers (not the last role was played and the language barrier), and of the crew members – nearly 25%.





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