A new version of the death of the Titanic and the most impressive facts!

Since the most famous shipwreck of the XX century - the death of the passenger liner "Titanic" was almost 105 years, but it seems that this story will for a long time give us occasions for talking, investigating and inspiring to create new films and books!

But I wonder if James Cameron will ever agree to a romantic story about Jack and Rose, knowing that they were separated not by an iceberg, but by a fire?

Yes, it was the message that brought the new year 2017! British journalist Shenan Moloney, behind whom more than 30 years of experience in shipwreck research "Titanic" confirmed an earlier version of experts that the cause of the loss of the ship was the ignition in the fuel storage! As an indisputable proof, Moloney cites the results of examining photographs taken by Titanic electrical engineers before he leaves the Harland and Wolfe shipyard in Belfast!

Construction of the Titanic

So, the journalist reports that the fuel in the three-story storage began to burn before the solemn departure of the liner from Southampton in April 1912. And even more, a team of 12 people for several weeks tried to eliminate the fire, but, alas, to no avail. The owners of the vessel were informed of what had happened, but they considered the cancellation of the first flight of the "unsinkable" as a greater catastrophe for their reputation than possible consequences. The officers were ordered not to disclose this information to passengers, but before going out, deploy the liner another side to the shore!

Ticket to the Titanic

According to the Moloney version, the ship's cladding at the site of the fire was heated to over 1000 degrees Celsius, and this made it 75% more fragile. And when on the fifth day of the voyage the Titanic collided with an iceberg, it could not stand the load, and a huge hole was formed on board!

Rescuing the passengers of the Titanic

Let's be honest, blame the iceberg, as the only reason for the massive loss of life and sinking of the ship would be unfair. Where a major role in the crash played negligent crime owners and a fire on the eve of the sailing.

"Titanic" on the bottom

It is known that of the 2,229 crew members and passengers of the Titanic, only 713 people managed to save. Today, the fragments of the liner rest at a depth of 3,750 meters in the waters of the North Atlantic, and the artifacts found by adventurers and explorers from time to time excite the memory and excitement of everyone who is not indifferent to this story.

A report in the newspaper about the death of the Titanic

But it turns out that not only was the fire an obvious reason not to go to sea ... When Shipbilder magazine called the Titanic a "practically unsinkable ship", its owners seized on this phrase and in all possible ways began to demonstrate its greatness and reliability.

Stairs under the dome in 1 class

First of all, they violated the tradition of the fleet and did not smash a bottle of champagne on board the first flight - the Titanic is unsinkable, which means that subsequent flights will be just as successful!

And the troubles did not take long to wait - not yet sailing far from Southampton "Titanic" almost collided with the American liner "New York". It was possible to avoid the first catastrophe almost at the last minute!

Two of the three Titanic screws

The luxury of the interior and service on the Titanic is known to the smallest detail. And after all only for one ticket in the first class in recalculation on modern money passengers paid on some tens thousand dollars! And it's not surprising that avid divers dream of a big jackpot - on the first (and last) flight of the Titanic, 10 millionaires with gold and jewels in safes for hundreds of millions of dollars went on a trip.

Smoking room 1 class

It is impressive that for such important persons "special cabins" were designed in eleven different interior styles - from the Dutch and Adam's style and to the interior in the style of the French and Italian Renaissance periods! It is interesting, but for how many hours the richest passengers of the ship managed to pass all 7 km of its walking decks?

Bedroom 1 class (B-64)

But, how boring for the hundredth time to reread about 40 tons of potatoes, 27 thousand bottles of mineral water and beer, 35 thousand eggs and 44 tons of meat, oysters from Baltimore and cheese from Europe on board the Titanic. It's about finding out the most impressive facts!

Captain Smith on deck

It is sad to admit that the cost of a ticket for a liner determined the chances of salvation. It is known that out of 143 passengers of the first class only 4. were killed. And only because they did not board the lifeboat.

One of them was Ida Strauss. The woman did not want to part with her husband Isidore Strauss, co-owner of the largest supermarket chain Macy's.

Ida and Isidore Strauss

"I will not leave my husband. We have always been together, we will both die together,

- said Ida, losing her place in the lifeboat number 8 maid and giving her a fur coat, adding that she does not need it anymore ...

Eyewitnesses claim that at the time of the death of the ship, Strauss's spouses were calm. They sat in armchairs on deck, one hand holding on to each other, and a free waved goodbye to the rescued. By the way, the maid not only survived, but even survived her masters for 40 years!

Orchestra musicians

I went to the bottom of the Titanic to the music. Until the last minutes the orchestra stood on the deck and played a church hymn "Closer, Lord, to you." None of the musicians survived. Well, the body of the head of the orchestra - 33-year-old violinist Wallace Hartley found 10 days later with a violin tied on his chest!

Thanks to the inscription on the instrument, it was established that the violin was given to the musician by his fiancée Maria Robinson. Yes, the girl was found, but with a memorable instrument Maria still decided to say goodbye and gave it to the British "Salvation Army." In 2013 the violin was sold at auction for $ 1.5 million!

The icy waters of the Atlantic forever took with them the body of Captain Edward John Smith. A naval officer with 30 years of experience has not completed his first transatlantic voyage, tragically leaving to the bottom along with the entire crew without trying to escape ...

Captain Edward John Smith

Did you know that the last passenger of the "Titanic" Elizabeth Gledis, Milvin Dean, died only 8 years ago at the age of 97? At the time of the sad event she was only 2 months and 13 days old.

The last passenger of the Titanic

But even Jack Dawson, played by our pet, Leonardo DiCaprio, is a real man! And let the director Cameron arbitrarily prove that this character - the fruit of his imagination, on the ship "Titanic" was actually a coal miner named Jack Dawson, who, although he was in love not in the script in Rose, but in his sister's sister.

But this is not all mysticism. Prepare for the most interesting - we know that on April 15, 1972 (you remember that Titanic went to the bottom on the night of April 14 to April 15?), The radio operator of the battleship Theodore Roosevelt accepted the SOS signal.

The signal from the "Titanic", which was received by the passenger steamer "Carpathia"

Not yet impressive? But he received the signal for help from the Titanic! Then the poor fellow thought that he "moved with his mind" and hurried to the military archive, where he found that the radiograms from the sunken ship had already been received in 1924, 1930, 1936 and 1942. But that's not all - the last signal from the "Titanic" in April 1996 received a Canadian ship "Quebec".