10 Little Known Facts About Titanic!! #1. Prices of Titanic Cruise Ticket in 1912 were as follow First Class: $4,350 Second Class: $1,750 Third Class: $30 #2. The Titanic sank 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting the iceberg. #3. A very famous writer of 18th century Morgan Robertson a writer has written a novel named ‘Futility’ in 1898 almost 14 year prior to titanic tragedy, In that novel he wrote about a ship named ‘Titan’ the largest ship ever built hitting the iceberg in Atlantic ocean on a cold April night, Both of the ships, The fictional one and the real one ‘Titanic’ were same in design and were labeled ‘unsinkable’. #4. The time interval from first sighting of the iceberg to impact was a little over 30 seconds. #5. The Titanic used 14,000 gallons of drinking water every 24 hours and 825 tons of coal per day. #6. There were 13 couples on board celebrating their Honeymoons. #7. The Titanic carried 900 tons of baggage and freight. #8. Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors. #9 . The Titanic was about as long as the Empire State building is tall. #10 . There were no cats on the Titanic. Cats were often brought on ships as a form of good luck. They also controlled rodents.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:36:13 +0000
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