100th ann of the titanic, things you probably never knew.

[powderman]

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      YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY  The 100th Anniversary of the Titanic: 10 Things You Didn’t Know  By Victoria Leigh Miller | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Fri, Apr 6, 2012   
 

• ViewApril 15, 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Here are 10 things you may not know about the luxury ship, which sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton England to the United States.

    * On the evening of April 14, the first-class passengers on the Titanic enjoyed a ten-course meal that included oysters, poached salmon, sirloin of beef, lamb with mint sauce, chocolate éclairs and waldorf pudding. According to Armchair World, a different wine was served with each course, and coffee and cigars accompanied by port and distilled spirits were available with the last course.
[Photos: Exclusive new images of the Titanic]
* The Titanic had its own newspaper. According to the Natural Science Center of Greensboro, The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed daily and included news articles, the latest stock prices, horse-racing results, society gossip and a daily menu.
* The massive ship had some unheard of amenities. A Discovery Channel article details perks such as an onboard Turkish bath, libraries, a squash court and a heated swimming pool. The luxury liner even had an infirmary with an operating room.
* While the Titanic boasted some of the wealthiest people in the world on board, two famous men of that era didn't make the trip. According to Discovery.com, financier J. P. Morgan and famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey had planned to sail aboard the ship's maiden voyage but canceled at the last minute.
[Photos: Museum sheds new light on 'Unsinkable Molly Brown']
* Less than a month after the tragedy, silent film actress and Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson starred in the film "Saved From the Titanic." According to Stageclick, the actress reenacted her personal story of the tragedy, complete with the actual white silk evening dress she wore on that fateful night. The film was a hit in America and England, but the only known prints were destroyed two years later in a fire.
* Many artifacts from the Titanic were salvaged. The Titanic Museum in Massachusetts houses The Titanic Historical Society's collection, which includes a lifejacket, lifeboat flag, luncheon and dinner menus, a square of first-class stateroom carpet, letters and postcards written on board, first class china and a bridge bell.
* According to UK's Mirror, a violin alleged to have belonged to Titanic bandleader Wallace Harley was recently discovered. While tests are being done to prove its authenticity, if sold it would break the record for a Titanic artifact, post office keys that were sold in England for £101,000 in 2007.
* The former home of one of the most famous Titanic survivors is now a museum in Denver. The 1910 home of socialite Margaret Brown - known after the tragedy as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," is open for tours and workshops.
[Photos: Titanic orphans, a tale of survival]
* The last remaining survivor of the Titanic died in 2009. Millvana Dean was only nine weeks old and the youngest passenger on the ship when she was put on a lifeboat and saved. According to The Guardian, her death at age 97 came just a month after "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet helped pay her nursing home expenses.
* Many sources have pegged the band's final song as "Nearer My God To Me." But in a 1912 interview with The New York Times, surviving crew member Harold Bride said the band played the hymn "Autumn" as the ship went down.

[Conan The Librarian]

After the major undersea expedition to photograph Titanic with rovers, a coffee table book was published showing the very fascinating pictures. There may be some online, and they are worth seeing.

[powderman]

Hard to imagine the surprise and horror of being on a brand new UNSINKABLE ship a thousand miles asea and find out that you were sinking and would probably die. POWDERMAN. 

[GeneRector]

   Howdy! Sometimes a tragedy has to happen to make people or nations change or make improvements to avoid a similar tragedy later on. Some great and necessary changes came about following the Titanic disaster. However, it is sad that so many people had to die when she sank. Always, Gene
 
 

[powderman]

I just watched 2 hrs about the titanic on pbs. 885 ft long, the berg ripped a 300+ ft hole in the hull. Over 30 millionaires were on board for the maiden voyage, a real prestige thing I reckon. They said there were 28 furnaces that used 820 TONS of coal a day, all shoveled by hand. They took on 50 tons of meat and 40 tons of potatoes to feed all the passengers and crew, those were just the staples. That was for a 6 days voyage. They said they would have prepared over 50,000 meals in the 6 days. Their engineers were credited with fighting the sea, slowing the sinking, for at least 90 min and believed several hundred were saved that would have died, none of the engineers lived. 549 crew died. What I've posted was what I remembered so the figures might not be 100%. All very interesting. When I was in high school I hated history, now I can't get enough of it. POWDERMAN. 

[BBF]

One other interesting fact, at least to me, is that the ship would have survived the collision if it had  stayed on course and rammed the 'berg head on instead of swerving.
 
Another thing that puzzled me was according to the film at least 30 seconds passed between the Engine Room receiving the collision alarm and the impact. The Bridge signalled STOP engines but there appeared to be no Order for "REVERSE ENGINES"  or what in my mind would have helped turn the ship, perhaps very slightly by just ordering the Port  Engine to FULL REVERSE"
 
Lastly, just what does it entail to reverse a Triple Expansion Steam Engine? Or was that not possible at all and that would explain the situation. I do recall seeing the telegraph(?)  in the Engine room in the film and it had a Reverse position.  Hmm

[powderman]

One other thing I found interesting was that the 4th smokestack was a dummy, The co thought that adding the 4th stack would make it appear faster. POWDERMAN. 

[BBF]

Charlie, so did all the Fins and Air Intakes on US cars during the 50th and 60th+ accomplish or at least tried to do.