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 Interesting Facts, which 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, the 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 be proud to tell passengers that it had created largest ship in the world. Almost any fact about the size of the Titanic can be supplemented with an exclamation mark. 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 to move 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 acquired value - everything that was discovered on seabed, became important because of the ship's fame.
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.
We have all seen the film "Titanic" directed by Cameron. Our conversation will not be about the merits of the film, which received 11 Oscars, but about the director’s generally conscientious approach to the historical material.
The picture of the death of the great ship looks not only impressive, but also incredibly authentic. Therefore, almost each of us has enough information to imagine the size of the Titanic, its interiors, the audience and the circumstances of its death. But still there are moments in the film (as in other stories about the Titanic), where events are either distorted or insufficiently covered. These are the ones we will focus on.
The water is damn cold, and there are not enough boats for everyone, only for half. So half the people will drown.
- Not the better half.
We remember these words. Perhaps one of the most powerful quotes from the film.
But how true is it?
There were 2,225 crew members and passengers on the Titanic, of which 908 were crew, 1,317 passengers (324 in first class, 128 in second, 708 in third). At the same time, the ocean superliner left for its first voyage half empty! It was designed for a much larger number of passengers - 2566.
The number of lifeboats on the Titanic was only 20, and they were designed for 1,178 people. Only 708 people were saved. At a minimum, another 500 people could have been saved on these boats.
Judging by the film, the overwhelming majority of the boats were only first class passengers. But this is not true at all! Only 202 passengers from first class were saved, 306 (!) from second and third class. Moreover, two thirds of the men from the first class did not have a place in the boats. In none of the maritime disasters either before or after the Titanic the mighty of the world This is true - millionaires, rich people and aristocrats did not die in such numbers, but third-class passengers were exactly equal on the boats - both women and men. Most of all (in percentage terms) it was second class passengers who died.
The rescue team tows one of the Titanic's lifeboats
It was believed that such huge ships could not sink quickly, and therefore lifeboats were considered not as a life-saving device, but more as a means of evacuating passengers to another ship nearby. In this case, for the task of transporting passengers, this number was quite sufficient. Accidents happened to superliners - boilers exploded, they ran aground, broke their bottoms on rocks, collided with other ships, but before the Titanic disaster they ALWAYS remained afloat.
In addition, the prosecutors forget about the obvious truth: the team still would not have been able to evacuate EVERYONE even if there were a sufficient number of lifeboats. See for yourself - the collision with the iceberg occurred at 23:45. Then quite a lot of time was spent assessing the damage and making a decision to evacuate; the lowering of the lifeboats began forty minutes after the impact. The last two boats were lowered at 2:05, by which time the ship's list was already critical, and at 2:20 it was all over. Two more boats were never launched. If there were twice as many boats, it is unlikely that the number of boats launched would have been greater. The Titanic sank TOO quickly.
But even in this case, it was possible to save many passengers caught in the water. And we are not talking about those who did not return to the boats.
The fact is that both the captain and the Titanic’s watchmen observed the lights of another ship, and it was for it that the launch of signal flares, which began after midnight, was intended. If this ship had approached the Titanic, most would have been saved, even those who were in the water. Unfortunately, the radio operator of the Californian (that was the name of the ship) had gone to bed by this time, and the captain did not react to the missile launch, although the watch officer reported this to him immediately. They even observed the Titanic itself, illuminated by flares, not just its lights. At that time, launching rockets meant one thing: “I’m in distress.” Even if we imagine that the captain doubted the purpose of the missiles, it would have been enough for him to call the radio operator to the radio room to find out the reason. However, nothing of the kind was done. Help came too late - three hours later from another ship, the Carpathia.
A photograph of the Californian taken the morning after the sinking of the Titanic. Photographed from "Carpathia".
Were there other chances, if not to avoid a catastrophe, then at least to reduce its scale? Without any doubt there were.
Only a few minutes passed from the discovery of the iceberg to the collision. At the moment when the message “Iceberg is straight ahead” arrived, the first mate of the watch, officer Murdoch, gave the command “Rudder right!” and moved the engine telegraph handle to “Full Back.”
William McMaster Murdoch
a huge ship rushing across the ocean at a speed of 42 kilometers per hour has enormous inertia, but the Titanic managed to turn away from the frontal impact and the iceberg only briefly passed along the left side of the bow. The impact did not seem so strong; many passengers did not even perceive it as a collision - only as a slight vibration.
As it later turned out, the Titanic did not even receive a hole as such; the impact caused the sheets of the ship's plating to separate, tearing off the rivets. The ship received several narrow cuts with a total length of up to ninety meters, and water immediately began to flood five compartments. From that moment on, the Titanic had just over two hours to live, and nothing could save it.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic. Photographed the next day.
If Murdoch had started to turn without giving the “Full Back” command, there would have been a chance that the Titanic would have managed to avoid the collision. Having given the command “Full reverse”, Murdoch stopped the propellers for half a minute necessary for reverse and immediately sharply worsened the control of the ship. From that moment on, there was no longer a chance to avoid a collision.
But the most interesting thing is that if Murdoch had not turned away and only given the command “Full Astern,” he would have thus maximized the Titanic’s chances of survival. A head-on collision would have led to the flooding of one, maximum two compartments, but it is quite possible that the Titanic would have remained afloat!
Frankly, this assumption caused me personally great doubts. Until I found out that a similar thing had already happened in 1907 - the German superliner Kronprinz Wilhelm collided with a small iceberg at maximum speed (about 40 km per hour), severely damaging its nose, but was still able to reach the port under its own power. In our case, both the iceberg and the ship were large sizes, but still the consequences most likely would not be as fatal as in reality.
We have all heard about the terrible tragedy - the sinking of a huge steamship called the Titanic. However, not everyone is familiar with these facts about the Titanic.
After the Titanic was holed by a collision with an iceberg and began to sink, chaos reigned on the ship for almost three hours.
Perhaps the most terrible part of the tragedy is the slow destruction.
The Titanic musicians played for more than two hours. They wanted to do everything possible to reassure passengers as they boarded the lifeboats. One of the surviving second class passengers spoke about the musicians' decision. It's a heroic act to play while the ship is sinking.
That early morning of April 15, 1912, four days after setting sail, 1,500 people died just 400 miles from shore. Among them were musicians. This is one of the most famous tragedies of the last century. But what do we really know about this?
Check out 10 facts about the sinking of the Titanic that few people knew about.
1. Titanic received 6 warnings about a possible collision with ice
The Titanic could have stayed afloat if it had hit an iceberg head-on. The partitions on the ship were very strong.
But, as we all know, the ship received a hole in the underwater part.
4. Presumably, 3 dogs were able to get onto the lifeboats
Two Spitz and one Pekingese survived the sinking of the Titanic. It is believed that they escaped due to their small size.
There were a total of 12 dogs on the ship that belonged to first class passengers, but three small dogs were the only ones that survived.
5. The last SOS signal was sent with incorrect coordinates
While the latitude was reported correctly, the longitude was off by 14 miles. Even if help had arrived on time, it would have arrived in the wrong place.
How and why were the incorrect coordinates given? There is still no clear answer to this question, which gives rise to various speculations.
6. No training was conducted on how to properly organize the boarding of passengers into lifeboats
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic liner set off from the port of Southampton on its first and last voyage, but 4 days later it collided with an iceberg. We know about the tragedy that claimed the lives of almost 1,496 people largely thanks to the film, but let's get acquainted with the real stories of the Titanic passengers.
The real cream of society gathered on the passenger deck of the Titanic: millionaires, actors and writers. Not everyone could afford to buy a first class ticket - the price was $60,000 at current prices.
3rd class passengers bought tickets for only $35 ($650 today), so they were not allowed to go above the third deck. On the fateful night, the division into classes turned out to be more noticeable than ever...
One of the first to jump into the lifeboat was Bruce Ismay, the general director of the White Star Line, which owned the Titanic. The boat, designed for 40 people, set sail with only twelve.
After the disaster, Ismay was accused of boarding a rescue boat, bypassing women and children, and also of instructing the captain of the Titanic to increase speed, which led to the tragedy. The court acquitted him.
William Ernest Carter boarded the Titanic at Southampton with his wife Lucy and two children Lucy and William, as well as two dogs.
On the night of the disaster, he was at a party in the restaurant of a first-class ship, and after the collision, he and his comrades went out onto the deck, where the boats were already being prepared. William first put his daughter on boat No. 4, but when it was his son's turn, problems awaited them.
13-year-old John Rison boarded the boat directly in front of them, after which the officer in charge of boarding ordered that no teenage boys be taken on board. Lucy Carter resourcefully threw her hat on her 11-year-old son and sat down with him.
When the landing process was completed and the boat began to descend into the water, Carter himself quickly boarded it along with another passenger. It was he who turned out to be the already mentioned Bruce Ismay.
21-year-old Roberta Maoney worked as a maid to the Countess and sailed on the Titanic with her mistress in first class.
On board she met a brave young steward from the ship's crew, and soon the young people fell in love with each other. When the Titanic began to sink, the steward rushed to Roberta's cabin, took her to the boat deck and put her on the boat, giving her his life jacket.
He himself died, like many other crew members, and Roberta was picked up by the ship Carpathia, on which she sailed to New York. Only there, in her coat pocket, did she find a badge with a star, which at the moment of parting the steward put in her pocket as a souvenir of himself.
Emily Richards was sailing with her two young sons, mother, brother and sister to her husband. At the time of the disaster, the woman was sleeping in the cabin with her children. They were awakened by the screams of their mother, who ran into the cabin after the collision.
The Richards were miraculously able to climb into the descending lifeboat No. 4 through the window. When the Titanic completely sank, the passengers of her boat managed to pull seven more people out of the icy water, two of whom, unfortunately, soon died of frostbite.
The famous American businessman Isidor Strauss and his wife Ida traveled in first class. The Strauss had been married for 40 years and had never been separated.
When the ship's officer invited the family to board the boat, Isidore refused, deciding to give way to women and children, but Ida also followed him
Instead of themselves, the Strauss put their maid in the boat. Isidore's body was identified by a wedding ring; Ida's body was not found.
The Titanic featured two orchestras: a quintet led by 33-year-old British violinist Wallace Hartley and an additional trio of musicians hired to give Café Parisien a continental flair.
Typically, two members of the Titanic orchestra worked in different parts of the liner and in different time, but on the night of the ship’s death, all of them united into one orchestra.
One of the rescued passengers of the Titanic would later write: “Many heroic deeds were performed that night, but none of them could compare with the feat of these few musicians, who played hour after hour, although the ship sank deeper and deeper and the sea got closer. to the place where they stood. The music they performed entitled them to be included in the list of heroes of eternal glory."
Hartley's body was found two weeks after the sinking of the Titanic and sent to England. A violin was tied to his chest - a gift from the bride. There were no survivors among the other orchestra members...
Four-year-old Michel and two-year-old Edmond traveled with their father, who died in the sinking, and were considered "orphans of the Titanic" until their mother was found in France.
Michel died in 2001, the last male survivor of the Titanic.
Winnie Coates was heading to New York with her two children. On the night of the disaster, she woke up from a strange noise, but decided to wait for orders from the crew members. Her patience ran out, she rushed for a long time along the endless corridors of the ship, getting lost.
She was suddenly directed by a crew member towards the lifeboats. She ran into a broken closed gate, but it was at that moment that another officer appeared, who saved Winnie and her children by giving them his life jacket.
As a result, Vinny ended up on the deck, where she was boarding boat No. 2, which, literally by miracle, she managed to board..
Seven-year-old Eve Hart escaped the sinking Titanic with her mother, but her father died during the crash.
Helen Walker believes that she was conceived on the Titanic before it hit an iceberg. “This means a lot to me,” she admitted in an interview.
Her parents were 39-year-old Samuel Morley, the owner of a jewelry store in England, and 19-year-old Kate Phillips, one of his workers, who fled to America from the man's first wife, eager to start new life.
Kate got into the lifeboat, Samuel jumped into the water after her, but did not know how to swim and drowned. “Mom spent 8 hours in the lifeboat,” said Helen. “She was in only a nightgown, but one of the sailors gave her his jumper.”
Violet Constance Jessop. Until the last moment, the stewardess did not want to be hired on the Titanic, but her friends convinced her because they believed that it would be a “wonderful experience.”
Before this, on October 20, 1910, Violette became a stewardess of the transatlantic liner Olympic, which a year later collided with a cruiser due to unsuccessful maneuvering, but the girl managed to escape.
And Violet escaped from the Titanic on a lifeboat. During the First World War, the girl went to work as a nurse, and in 1916 she got on board the Britannic, which... also sank! Two boats with a crew were pulled under the propeller of a sinking ship. 21 people died.
Among them could have been Violet, who was sailing in one of the broken boats, but again luck was on her side: she managed to jump out of the boat and survived.
Fireman Arthur John Priest also survived a shipwreck not only on the Titanic, but also on the Olympic and Britannic (by the way, all three ships were the brainchild of the same company). Priest has 5 shipwrecks to his name.
On April 21, 1912, the New York Times published the story of Edward and Ethel Bean, who sailed in second class on the Titanic. After the crash, Edward helped his wife into the boat. But when the boat had already sailed, he saw that it was half empty and rushed into the water. Ethel pulled her husband into the boat.
Among the Titanic's passengers were the famous tennis player Carl Behr and his lover Helen Newsom. After the disaster, the athlete ran into the cabin and took the women to the boat deck.
The lovers were ready to say goodbye forever when the head of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay, personally offered Behr a place on the boat. A year later, Carl and Helen got married and later became the parents of three children.
Edward John Smith - captain of the Titanic, who was very popular among both crew members and passengers. At 2.13 a.m., just 10 minutes before the ship's final dive, Smith returned to the captain's bridge, where he decided to meet his death.
Second Mate Charles Herbert Lightoller was one of the last to jump from the ship, miraculously avoiding being sucked into the ventilation shaft. He swam to collapsible boat B, which was floating upside down: the Titanic's pipe, which came off and fell into the sea next to him, drove the boat further from the sinking ship and allowed it to remain afloat.
American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim helped women and children into lifeboats during the crash. When asked to save himself, he replied: “We are dressed in our best clothes and are ready to die like gentlemen.”
Benjamin died at the age of 46, his body was never found.
Thomas Andrews - first class passenger, Irish businessman and shipbuilder, was the designer of the Titanic...
During the evacuation, Thomas helped passengers board lifeboats. He was last seen in the first class smoking room near the fireplace, where he was looking at a painting of Port Plymouth. His body was never found after the crash.
John Jacob and Madeleine Astor, a millionaire science fiction writer, and his young wife traveled first class. Madeleine escaped on lifeboat No. 4. John Jacob's body was recovered from the depths of the ocean 22 days after his death.
Colonel Archibald Gracie IV is an American writer and amateur historian who survived the sinking of the Titanic. Returning to New York, Gracie immediately began writing a book about his voyage.
It is she who has become a real encyclopedia for historians and researchers of the disaster, thanks to the large number of names it contains of stowaways and 1st class passengers remaining on the Titanic. Gracie's health was severely compromised by hypothermia and injuries, and he died at the end of 1912.
Margaret (Molly) Brown is an American socialite, philanthropist and activist. Survived. When panic arose on the Titanic, Molly put people into lifeboats, but she herself refused to get in.
“If the worst happens, I’ll swim out,” she said, until eventually someone forced her into lifeboat number 6, which made her famous.
After Molly organized the Titanic Survivors Fund.
Millvina Dean was the last surviving passenger of the Titanic: she died on May 31, 2009, aged 97, in a nursing home in Ashurst, Hampshire, on the 98th anniversary of the liner's launch. .
Her ashes were scattered on October 24, 2009 at the port of Southampton, where the Titanic launched her first and last flight. At the time of the death of the liner she was two and a half months old
About terrible death luxury liner Titanic in the waters Atlantic Ocean everyone knows. Hundreds of people distraught with fear, heart-rending women's screams and children's crying. 3rd class passengers buried alive at the bottom of the ocean are on the lower deck and millionaires choosing best places in half-empty lifeboats - on the upper, prestigious deck of the ship. But only a select few knew that the sinking of the Titanic was planned, and the death of hundreds of women and children became another fact in a cynical political game.
April 10, 1912 Southampton port, England. Thousands of people gathered at the port of Southampton to see off the liner Titanic, with 2,000 lucky people on board, set off on a romantic trip across the Atlantic. The cream of society gathered on the passenger deck - mining magnate Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire John Astor, actress Dorothy Gibson. Not everyone could afford to buy a first class ticket, $3,300 at the prices of that time, or $60,000 at the prices of today. 3rd class passengers paid only $35 ($650 in our money), so they lived on the third deck, not having the right to go upstairs, where the millionaires were located.
Tragedy Titanic still remains the largest peacetime maritime disaster. The circumstances surrounding the deaths of 1,500 people are still shrouded in mystery.
The archives of the British Navy confirm that for some reason there were half as many boats on the Titanic as needed, and the captain knew even before the collision that there were not enough seats for all the passengers.
The ship's crew ordered to rescue the 1st class passengers first. Bruce Ismay, the general director of the company, was one of the first to board the lifeboat. White Star Line", which belonged to Titanic. The boat in which Ismay was sitting was designed for 40 people, but it set sail with only twelve.
The lower deck, where 1,500 people were located, was ordered to be locked so that third-class passengers would not rush upstairs to the boats. Panic began below. People saw how water began to flow into the cabins, but the captain had an order - to save the rich passengers. The order - only women and children - came much later, and according to experts, the sailors were primarily interested in this, since in this case they became rowers on the boats and they had a chance of salvation.
Many second and third class passengers, without waiting for the boats, threw themselves overboard in life jackets. In a panic, few people understood that it was almost impossible to survive in icy water.
sinking of the Titanic
The list of third class passengers, which only recently became public, includes the name Winni Goutts (Winnie Coutts), a modest Englishwoman with two sons. In New York, the woman was waiting for her husband, who had gotten a job in America a few months earlier. It may seem incredible, but 88 years later, on February 3, 1990, Icelandic fishermen picked up a woman with that name on the shore. Wet, frozen in tattered clothes, she cried and screamed that she was a passenger Titanic and her name is Winnie Couts. The woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital and was mistaken for a crazy woman for a long time, until one of the journalists found her name in the handwritten passenger lists of the Titanic. She described the chronology of events in detail and was never confused. Mystics immediately put forward their version - they fell into the so-called space-time trap.
After the declassification of the archives " Investigation into the death of 1,500 passengers on the Titanic“On July 20, 2008, the Senate investigative commission learned that on the night of the disaster, almost 200 passengers managed to board lifeboats and sail away from the sinking ship. Some of them describe a strange phenomenon. At about one o'clock in the morning, passengers saw a large luminous object near the liner. The men thought that these were the lights of another ship." RMS Carpathia", which can save them. About 10 boats sailed towards this light, but after half an hour the lights went out. It turned out that there was no ship nearby, and the liner “ RMS Carpathia" Came up only after 1 hour. Many eyewitnesses described strange lights observed near the site Titanic wreck. These testimonies were kept secret.
Abnormal events around sinking of the Titanic were carefully hidden for a long time. It is known that no one was able to officially confirm the identity of Winnie Couts.
In the ranking of the largest maritime disasters of the 20th century published by a popular Internet publication Titanic is by no means in last place. However, in the column “Cause of death - collision with an iceberg”, it appears in this list only once. The first and last time in the history of navigation when a ship sank due to a collision with an iceberg. Moreover, the consequences of the collision are comparable to the results of a major military operation. What is this?
The official version of the disaster is that Titanic collided with a black iceberg that had recently capsized in the water and was therefore invisible against the night sky. No one ever wondered why the iceberg was black. The lookout on duty, Frederick Fleet, saw some huge dark mass a few seconds before the collision and heard a strange, very loud grinding sound coming from under the water, not like the sound of contact with an iceberg.
80 years later, Russian researchers went down to the Titanic for the first time and confirmed that the hull of the steamship was indeed cut. Why didn't the lookouts notice anything in advance? It’s surprising, but they didn’t have binoculars, that is, technically they were in the safe, but the key to it mysteriously disappeared. And one more strange detail - Titanic the most advanced of the early 20th century was not equipped with spotlights. Such carelessness looks, at least, strange, because Titanic Telegrams arrived all day warning about icebergs cruising in the area.
Having weighed all the events and facts, it seems that the Titanic disaster was prepared on purpose, but who benefited from the death Titanic and why hundreds of innocent people were drowned. It was clear to the people behind the biggest disaster of the century that not everyone would believe in a collision with an iceberg. Until now, we are offered many versions to choose from, who will like what.
For example, in order to receive an insurance payment, they did not flood Titanic, and the same type of passenger ship Olympic, which had been in operation for a long time and by 1912 had become quite dilapidated. But in 1995, Russian scientists refuted this assumption with the help of remote-controlled modules inserted inside the sunken ship. It has been proven that it is not Olympic that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Then a version was put into print that Titanic sank while chasing the prestigious Atlantic Blue Riband award. Allegedly, the captain wanted to arrive at the port of New York a day ahead of schedule in order to receive the prize. Because of this, the ship was sailing in a dangerous area at maximum speed. The authors of this version completely lost sight of the fact that Titanic I simply technically could not reach the speed of 26 knots, at which the previous record was set.
They also talked about the mistake of the helmsman, who misunderstood the captain’s order and, being in a stressful situation, turned the steering wheel in the wrong direction.
Maybe Titanic was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine and this disaster actually became the first episode of the First World War. Numerous underwater studies subsequently did not find even indirect signs of a possible torpedo hit, so the most plausible version of the death of the Titanic ultimately became a fire.
On the eve of departure, a fire broke out in the hold of the liner where coal was stored. They tried to put it out, but were unsuccessful. Already gathered at the pier richest people of that time, cinema stars, the press, and an orchestra played. The flight could not be cancelled. The owner of the ship, Bruce Ismay, decided to go to New York and try to put out the fire along the way. That is why the captain drove at full speed, fearing with all his might that the ship was about to explode and ignored the message about icebergs.
Another oddity is the owner of the company “ White Star Line", which belonged to Titanic multimillionaire John Pierpont Morgan Jr. canceled his ticket 24 hours before departure and removed from the flight a famous collection of paintings that he planned to take to New York. In addition to Morgan, 55 more first-class passengers, mostly partners and acquaintances of the millionaire - John Rockefeller, Henry Frick, and the US Ambassador to France Alfred Vandelfeld, refused to travel on the Titanic in just one day. Previously, practically no significance was attached to this fact, but only very recently scientists compared certain facts and came to the conclusion that the Titanic became the first major disaster aimed at establishing world domination.
Billionaires rule the world, whose goal is unlimited power. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the attack on the Twin Towers of the World shopping center- links of one chain. The sinking of the Titanic not the first and not the last planned disaster. But why did the world government decide to flood Titanic. The answer should be sought in the events of the early 20th century. It was during these years that the sharp growth of industry began - the gasoline engine, the incredible development of aviation, industrialization, the use of electricity in all industries, the experiments of Nikola Tesla, and so on. The world's financial leaders understood that scientific and technological progress could soon explode the world order on planet Earth. John Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan, Carl Mayer Rothschild, Henry Ford, who are the world government, understood that following the rapid growth of industry, countries would begin to develop, which in their world concept were assigned the role of only raw material appendages, and then the redistribution of property on the planet would begin, and control over the processes taking place in the world will be lost.
Every year the socialists made themselves known more and more, trade unions gained strength, crowds of protesters demanded freedom and independence. And then it was decided to remind humanity who is the boss of the world.
In the mid-90s, Russian scientists dived to the Titanic and took metal samples, which were then analyzed by specialists from an American institute. The results were truly stunning - based on the sulfur content, it was established that it was an ordinary metal. And later studies showed that the metal was not just the same as on other ships, it was of much worse quality, and in icy water it generally turned into a very brittle material. In the fall of 1993, an event occurred that put an end to the study of the causes of death Titanic. At the New York conference of American shipbuilding experts, the results of an independent analysis of the causes of the disaster were announced. Experts said they did not understand why such low quality steel was used for the hull of the world's most expensive ship. In cold water, the hull of the Titanic cracked at the first impact on a minor obstacle, while high-quality steel only deforms.
Experts believed that in this way the owners of the shipbuilding company were trying to save money, but no one thought to ask the question why the billionaire owners of the ship were cutting costs, jeopardizing their own safety. And everything is quite logical; it was a real sabotage. Brittle metal, cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean and a dangerous route. All that remained was to wait for the SOS signal from the shipwrecked Titanic. During the investigation of the circumstances of the disaster, the US judicial commission proved that the northern route that the Titanic took was chosen on the orders of Bruce Ismay. He was on board the ship, but was one of the first to be evacuated and safely awaited the arrival of " RMS Carpathia", which also belonged to the company " White Star Line"and was specially located nearby to save rich passengers. But " RMS Carpathia“The order was given, it is not too close, because the disaster was supposed to be a terrifying event for the whole world.
Now we can say with confidence sinking of the Titanic it was a carefully thought-out propaganda campaign. Millions of people around the world were shocked by the fate of third class passengers buried alive; they remained walled up in their cabins.
In the eyes of the world government, third class passengers are you and me - Russia, China, Ukraine and the Middle East, and in December 2012 they are preparing a new act of intimidation for us, but what exactly? All that remains is to wait, and not for long.
watch National Geographic's reconstruction of the sinking of the Titanic
