Recommended friends are based on your interests. Make sure they are up to date. If all you know about the Titanic is that it was the ship where Jack and Rose met and fell in love, then you need to keep reading. It's been 95 years since the tragic sinking of the Titanic, but her memory still lives on in our minds. Titanic - A Luxury Liner The Titanic was the grandest ship of her time. She was majestic, lavishly decorated and considered unsinkable because four of her 16 watertight compartments could be flooded without endangering the ship. The Titanic was divided into social classes according to background, wealth and education. The bottom two layers were for manual workers and third-class passengers who were hoping to start a new life in America. The second-class layer included teachers, merchants and professionals. The top layer was reserved for the rich and aristocratic. Titanic - Her Tragic Ending Although it took five years to build, the Titanic had a very short career.
She set off on April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England, but never made it to her destination of New York City - she struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912. As the ship began to fill with water, people scrambled to get in the lifeboats, but crew members decided that women and children would board first. Although each lifeboard could carry 65 passengers, some of them carried as little as 12. By the time the last lifeboat left, there were more than 1,500 passengers still on board the sinking ship. At 2:20AM on April 15th, people in the lifeboats watched in horror as the "unsinkable" Titanic went down, killing 1,523 passengers. The Carpathia, which had picked up the Titanic's distress signals, reached the site at 3:30AM to rescue 705 survivors. Titanic - Did U Know? The Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. She stretched to 882 feet and weighed 21,831 tonnes. The Titanic cost a reported $7.5 million to build.
Although the Titanic had a passenger capacity of 3,547, she was only carrying 1,343 passengers and 885 crew members. The Titanic was one of three sister ships - the Olympic, which had a successful career as a liner until she was broken up in 1935, and the Brittanic, which tragically sank on November 21, 1916 when she was either torpedoed or the victim of a mine explosion. On September 1, 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic. It was found lying upright in two pieces on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet. Working on a Cruise Ship Scary Places - The Queen Mary Luxury LinerLIBRARY HOURS: MON-THU 10-9pm FRI 10-5pm SAT 9-5pm SUN 1-5pm | This April is the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the world’s interest in the most famous shipwreck of all time is stronger than ever. On April 10, 1912 the steamship Titanic set out on its doomed maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City.
On board were 2227 excited passengers and crew members. There were 20 lifeboats onboard, more than the number required by law, but not enough for all passengers and crew. No lifeboat drills were conducted. Only 705 would survive the ship’s collision with an iceberg four days later. The Titanic was intended to be the largest and most luxurious passenger liner of her time. Construction of the ship that was designed to be unsinkable began March 31, 1909. It took three years and more than 3000 men and 3 million rivets to build the 882 ½ foot long ship. At that time it was the largest vessel afloat. Some of today’s cruise ships are over 1000 feet long. The most deluxe staterooms on the Titanic were reserved for first class passengers. They had a private deck, two bedrooms, a sitting room, two wardrobe rooms and a private bathroom and cost $4,350. Today that ticket would cost $100,034. Cabins for third class passengers were one room with bunk beds and cost about $40. Today the cost would about $793.
While everything on the ship was new and modern there were only two bathtubs for 700 third class passengers to share. Among the supplies onboard when the Titanic set sail were 40,000 eggs, 75,000 pounds of fresh meat , 36,000 apples, and 1,750 quarts of ice cream as well as 3,000 tea cups and 7,500 blankets. You may already know that the Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. at night on Sunday, April 14, 1912 and sunk just over two-and-a-half hours later. Several things may have contributed to the tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives. Though the damage in the hull was 220 to 245 feet long, the most recent evidence shows that there was only a 12 square foot opening (the size of a refrigerator) in the hull allowing water inside the ship. Was the ship traveling too fast for the weather conditions? Did the collision with the iceberg cause the rivets to pop out of the hull? Should the ship have hit the iceberg head on instead of trying to steer around it? We may never know if there was a way to prevent the Titanic from sinking.
The Titanic was rediscovered on the ocean floor on July 14th, 1986, 74 years after it sank. After the sinking of the Titanic new safety regulations were recommended. Ships were soon required to carry enough lifeboats to hold everyone onboard and that that lifeboat drills were properly performed.Peak Time Entertainment, the venture between ‘Rush Hour” producer and ’s , is to chart a new course with “Titanic Code.” The previously announced project, which focuses on a conspiracy plot behind the ship’s sinking, comes 20 years after the global success of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” Production is expected to start in early 2017. Scripted by David Marconi (“The Foreigner”), the film is expected to sail into cinemas by Christmas 2017 or early 2018. No director or cast have yet been attached. The production will be structured as a China-U.S. co-venture involving Peak Time and Seven Stars Entertainment, a subsidiary of Wu’s Sun Seven Stars Media Group.
Peak Time reports enduring global interest in the sinking of the iconic passenger ship in 1912 while on its maiden commercial voyage. “As a heartfelt cinematic icon, the word ‘Titanic’ remains one of the most searched words on Google worldwide, with over 300 million daily searches by more than 50 million fans and followers,” the company said. Sun Seven Stars Media will also be involved in providing merchandising services, and will appoint a team of Titanic-related experts, research specialists, and explorers to engage in production planning for a dedicated online channel. Sarkissian found and developed “While You Were Sleeping” which became Sandra Bullock’s first big hit. The subsequent “Rush Hour” franchise was discovered and developed by Sarkissian in 1998 and paired the unlikely duo of Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Controlled by Wu and Lan Yang, Seven Stars owns more than 50 film production companies via acquisition and joint ventures. It has produced some 20 English-language films, 300 hours of English-language TV, and over 150 variety and reality shows distributed to 64 countries.