Titanic Revisited - Top 20 Facts About the Titanic You Could Actually Miss

It seems you know already much about the tragedy of the British liner that collided with an iceberg while sailing from Southhampton, UK to New York, US. You’ve seen the movie of James Cameron and read some publications, still we’re pretty sure there are interesting facts you could miss.


1. The only Japanese who survived the Titanic lost his job because he was known as a coward in Japan for not dying with the other passengers.
Before the Titanic he had a rather good reputation that was damaged for him forever. Even after his death his family was facing the shame for decades.

 

2. A Houston restaurant charges $12,000 for a 10-course meal that was served on the Titanic with the exact setting too.
Would you wish to try the dishes the wealthiest people aboard could enjoy just before they died?
 

3. Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
True heroism is shown by ordinary people when they have to make last choice.

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4. The Titanic II is currently being built and will set sail in 2016.
The initiative belongs to a mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
 

5. If the Titanic were to be launched in 2012, its first class “parlour suite” would’ve cost $100,000 USD.
If it was destined to be the last voyage what a luxurious voyage it could be!
 

6. Titanic survivors were charged $1 per word to send telegrams from their lifeboat.
One man used his last dollar to send the word ‘Safe’ to his mother.
 

7. A priest on the Titanic refused a lifeboat and instead, stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to those on the ship.
It was a parish priest from Essex whose name was Roussel Davids Byles.
 

8. A first class ticket on the Titanic would cost about $100,000 today.
Yes, you read it right – $100k to die!



9. Knowing that they’d have a nude scene in the movie ‘Titanic’, Kate Winslet flashed Leonardo DiCaprio the first time they met.
Who would flash who if they met today?
 

10. Director James Cameron was the one who actually drew the nude sketch of Kate Winslet in the movie Titanic.
By the way, the original picture was sold for $16,000 at an auction in 2011.



11. There was a Titanic survivor who dressed as a woman to gain access to one of the last lifeboats.

Back in 1912, “women and children first” was a rule men followed primarily because doing so was a social imperative, it was not a prescription of a maritime law.
 

12. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

The greatest fail and the great win are both about that liner.
 

13. On the real Titanic, the band actually did stay on the ship, playing music as it went down — They all died.
It’s impossible to imagine what those musicians felt in their last moments…



14. If you rearrange the letters in “The Titanic Disaster”. You will get: “Death, it starts in ice”.
Do you think it’s just a coincidence?
 

15. Leonardo DiCaprio never died in Titanic. Last scene: him going underwater. 1st Scene in Inception: him waking up on a beach.
People keep joking it’s a movie within a movie.
 

16. The Titanic’s lookouts couldn’t see the iceberg because of a cold water mirage.
They simply didn’t see the iceberg, what they saw was a cold sea.
 

17. MacCaulay Culkin, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, were all considered for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic.
At the same time Rose could be played by any actress from this list: Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Christina Applegate, Jennifer Connelly, Claire Danes, Geena Davis, Minnie Driver, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Emily Mortimer, Jeri Ryan, Winona Ryder, Tori Spelling, Nicollette Sheridan, Uma Thurman, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Anwar, Rosanna Arquette, Rose Byrne, Gabrielle Carteris, Marguerite Chapman, Amanda Donohoe, Claire Forlani and Madonna.
Could you imagine Rose and Jack played by MacCaulay Culkin and, let me say it, Madonna?
 

18. The Titanic wasn’t described as “unsinkable” until after the ship sank.
In fact it was less “unsinkable” than another ship built over 50 years earlier.
 

19. J. P. Morgan was scheduled to travel on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, but cancelled at the last minute.
Owner of the Titanic had to change his travel plans in the last moment.
 

20. This is a photograph of the ACTUAL iceberg that sunk the Titanic.
On the image it does not look so much threatening, does it?
 

Well, what do you say to all that?

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