101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't! April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from survivors, and excerpts from the official inquiries, this book is guaranteed to make readers rethink everything they thought they knew about the legendary ship and its tragic fate. |
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Contents
54 TITANIC SANK MORE RAPIDLY BECAUSE HER WATERTIGHT DOORS WERE OPENED AGAIN AFTER THE COLLISION | |
55 TITANIC DID NOT SEND A DISTRESS SIGNAL UNTIL 47 MINUTES AFTER THE COLLISION | |
56 TITANIC WAS THE FIRST SHIP TO USE THE DISTRESS SIGNAL SOS | |
57 TITANICS DISTRESS SIGNAL GAVE THE WRONG POSITION | |
58 CARPATHIA WAS THE FIRST SHIP TO PICK UP TITANICS DISTRESS SIGNAL | |
59 THE FRANKFURT 150 MILES AWAY WAS TOLD YOU FOOL STANDBY AND KEEP OUT WHEN SHE CONTACTED TITANIC | |
60 TITANICS DISTRESS MESSAGE WAS PICKED UP ON THE ROOF OF A NEW YORK DEPARTMENT STORE | |
61 THE CALIFORNIAN WAS ABOUT 20 MILES AWAY FROM THE SINKING TITANIC | |
13 TITANIC WAS FILLED TO CAPACITY ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE | |
14 TITANIC WAS ON FIRE WHEN SHE LEFT SOUTHAMPTON | |
15 TITANIC WAS CARRYING GOLD BULLION | |
16 TITANIC NEARLY COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER SHIP AS SHE LEFT SOUTHAMPTON | |
17 CAPTAIN SMITH WAS ACCIDENT PRONE | |
18 TITANIC WAS TRYING TO WIN THE BLUE RIBAND FOR THE FASTEST ATLANTIC CROSSING | |
19 TITANIC WAS SHORT OF COAL BECAUSE OF A COAL STRIKE | |
20 OWNER ISMAY ACTED AS A SUPERCAPTAIN AND ORDERED CAPTAIN SMITH TO MAINTAIN FULL SPEED DESPITE THE UNUSUA... | |
21 TITANIC WAS TRYING TO TAKE THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO NEW YORK AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT | |
22 CAPTAIN SMITH SHOULD HAVE SLOWED DOWN FOR ICE | |
23 CRUCIAL ICE WARNINGS NEVER MADE IT TO TITANICS BRIDGE BECAUSE THE WIRELESS OPERATOR WAS TOO BUSY AND TIRED | |
24 CAPTAIN SMITH WAS DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE COLLISION | |
25 MOLLY BROWN WAS TREATED WITH CONDESCENSION BY OTHER FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS BECAUSE SHE WAS NEW MONEY | |
26 ALICE CLEAVER NURSEMAID TO A FAMILY IN FIRST CLASS HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF KILLING HER OWN CHILD | |
27 TWO KIDNAPPED CHILDREN SURVIVED THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC | |
28 THERE WERE PROFESSIONAL CARDSHARPS TRAVELLING ON TITANIC AS FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS | |
29 STEWARDESS VIOLET JESSOP SURVIVED THE SINKING OF BOTH THE TITANIC AND HER SISTER SHIP THE BRITANNIC | |
30 ALL EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE GOODWIN FAMILY DIED IN THE SINKING | |
31 KEEP A LOOKOUT FOR SMALL ICE WAS A STANDING JOKE AMONGST TITANICS LOOKOUTS | |
32 TITANICS LOOKOUTS COULD SMELL THE ICE THAT NIGHT | |
33 IF TITANICS LOOKOUTS HAD HAD BINOCULARS THEYD HAVE SEEN THE ICEBERG EARLIER | |
34 TITANIC WAS GOING AT THE MAXIMUM SPEED SHE WAS CAPABLE OF WHEN SHE SIGHTED THE ICEBERG | |
35 TITANICS ENGINES WERE PUT IN REVERSE JUST BEFORE THE COLLISION MAKING THE SHIP LESS RESPONSIVE TO HER HELM ... | |
36 IF TITANIC HAD BEEN GOING MORE SLOWLY SHE COULD HAVE TURNED MORE QUICKLY | |
38 HARDASTARBOARD WAS THE ONLY HELM ORDER GIVEN TO AVOID THE ICEBERG | |
39 CAPTAIN SMITH WAS IN BED WHEN TITANIC COLLIDED WITH THE ICEBERG | |
40 TITANIC COLLIDED WITH A LONE ICEBERG | |
41 TITANIC STRUCK A BLUE OR DARK ICEBERG | |
42 IF TITANIC HAD CARRIED SEARCHLIGHTS THE LOOKOUTS WOULD HAVE SEEN THE ICE EARLIER | |
43 THE LOOKOUTS HAD REPORTED SEEING ICEBERGS BEFORE THE COLLISION | |
44 THE ICEBERG WHICH SANK THE TITANIC WAS IDENTIFIED THE DAY AFTER THE SINKING BY A SMEAR OF RED PAINT ALONG I... | |
45 EVERYONE ON BOARD TITANIC FELT A TERRIFIC JOLT AS SHE COLLIDED WITH THE ICEBERG | |
46 SOME THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS WOKE UP TO FIND THEIR CABINS AWASH | |
47 PASSENGERS USED CHUNKS OF THE ICEBERG IN THEIR DRINKS AFTER THE COLLISION | |
48 THE ICEBERG RIPPED A 300 FOOT GASH ALONG THE SIDE OF THE SHIP | |
49 THE STEEL AND RIVETS USED TO MAKE TITANIC WERE OF INFERIOR QUALITY IF SHED BEEN MADE WITH BETTER METAL TH... | |
50 IF THE BULKHEADS OF TITANICS WATERTIGHT COMPARTMENTS HAD BEEN HIGHER SHE WOULDNT HAVE SUNK | |
52 IF TITANIC HAD RAMMED THE ICEBERG HEADON SHE WOULD HAVE SURVIVED | |
53 ENGINEERS AND STOKERS WERE TRAPPED BELOW BY THE WATERTIGHT DOORS AS THEY CAME DOWN AFTER THE COLLISION | |
62 THE CALIFORNIAN SAW TITANICS DISTRESS SIGNALS BUT IGNORED THEM | |
63 THERE WAS A MYSTERY SHIP BETWEEN THE TITANIC AND THE CALIFORNIAN WHICH COULD HAVE SAVED EVERYONE BUT IT... | |
64 IF THE CALIFORNIAN HAD GONE TO HELP EVERYONE ON THE TITANIC COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED | |
65 CAPTAIN SMITH HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN FOLLOWING THE COLLISION WHICH RENDERED HIM INEFFECTIVE | |
66 TITANICS PASSENGERS WERE RELUCTANT TO GET INTO THE LIFEBOATS | |
67 TITANICS OFFICERS THOUGHT HER LIFEBOATS MIGHT BREAK IF THEY WERE LOWERED FULLY LOADED | |
68 TITANICS SECOND OFFICER PREVENTED MEN AND EVEN BOYS FROM ENTERING LIFEBOATS EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS SPAC... | |
69 ONE MAN ESCAPED BY PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN IN ORDER TO GET INTO A LIFEBOAT | |
70 TITANIC DEVELOPED A LIST TO PORT WHEN SINKING AND PASSENGERS WERE ORDERED TO THE STARBOARD SIDE TO CORRE... | |
71 TITANICS FIRST OFFICER ALLOWED A LIFEBOAT WITH A CAPACITY OF 40 TO LEAVE WITH ONLY FIVE PASSENGERS IN IT | |
72 THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS WERE KEPT BELOW AS TITANIC SANK AND WERE PREVENTED FROM ENTERING THE LIFEBOATS | |
73 IF TITANIC HAD HAD MORE LIFEBOATS EVERYBODY COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED | |
74 CAPTAIN SMITH ADVISED THOSE ON BOARD NEAR THE END TO BE BRITISH | |
76 TITANICS MARCONI OPERATORS KNOCKED A STOKER UNCONSCIOUS AND LEFT HIM TO DIE | |
77 ISMAY PUSHED HIS WAY INTO COLLAPSIBLE C THE LAST LIFEBOAT TO BE LAUNCHED ON THE STARBOARD SIDE | |
78 TITANICS ENGINEERS DIED AT THEIR POSTS BELOW DECKS | |
79 TITANICS BOILERS EXPLODED AS SHE SANK | |
80 TITANIC BROKE IN HALF AS SHE SANK | |
81 COL JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV WAS CRUSHED BY A FALLING FUNNEL AS THE SHIP SANK | |
82 FIRST OFFICER MURDOCH SHOT ONE OR TWO PASSENGERS BEFORE SHOOTING HIMSELF | |
83 CAPTAIN SMITH COMMITTED SUICIDE AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN | |
84 MOST TITANIC VICTIMS DROWNED | |
85 THE CARPATHIA AVERAGED 175 KNOTS DURING HER 58MILE DASH TO REACH THE TITANIC | |
86 CHIEF BAKER CHARLES JOUGHIN SURVIVED FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN THE FREEZING WATER | |
87 MOLLY BROWN TRIED TO MAKE LIFEBOAT NUMBER SIX GO BACK TO PICK UP SURVIVORS BUT WAS PREVENTED BY QUARTER... | |
88 MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN SAVED IF MORE LIFEBOATS HAD ATTEMPTED TO RETURN TO PICK UP SURVIVORS F... | |
89 SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON OFFERED THOSE IN LIFEBOAT NO 1 5 EACH IF THEY WOULD AGREE NOT TO RETURN TO THE SHIP T... | |
90 THE BARKING OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG ALERTED CARPATHIA TO TITANICS LIFEBOATS | |
91 OPERATORS ON THE CARPATHIA WITHHELD INFORMATION ABOUT TITANICS SINKING IN ORDER TO SELL THEIR STORY TO TH... | |
92 A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF IRISH PEOPLE DIED ON THE TITANIC THAN ANY OTHER NATIONALITY | |
93B MORE FIRST CLASS MEN WERE SAVED THAN THIRD CLASS MEN | |
94 BODIES OF FIRST AND SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN TO HALIFAX FOR BURIAL BUT THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS W... | |
95 ONE OF TITANICS LIFEBOATS WAS FOUND DRIFTING IN THE ATLANTIC A MONTH AFTER THE SINKING WITH THE BODIES OF T... | |
96 THE TITANIC AND HER CARGO WERE REINSURED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISASTER | |
97 THE SHIP THAT SANK WAS ACTUALLY THE PREVIOUSLY DAMAGED OLYMPIC IN AN INSURANCE SCAM THAT WENT WRONG | |
98 ISMAY DEVELOPED A LIFELONG OPIATE ADDICTION AFTER THE SINKING AND WITHDREW FROM SOCIETY | |
99 THE BRITISH INQUIRY INTO THE SINKING WAS A WHITEWASH | |
100 RMS TITANIC INC NOW OWNS THE WRECK | |
101 THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC MAY ONE DAY BE RAISED | |
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101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic . . . but Didn't! Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston No preview available - 2011 |
101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic... But Didn't! Tim Maltin No preview available - 2012 |
101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic-- But Didn't! Tim Maltin,Eloise Aston No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
April Atlantic Attorney-General Board of Trade boat deck bodies Boxhall Bride bridge British Inquiry Bruce Ismay bulkhead Californian Cape Race Captain Rostron Captain Smith Carpathia coal collapsible collision Commissioner Cottam crew distress position engines fact feet Fourth Officer Boxhall greaser happened Harold Bride heard helm iceberg Jack Thayer knots launch lifebelt lifeboats Lightoller liner look lookout Lord Mersey lowered Marconi Mauretania miles minutes minutes of arc night o’clock Officer Murdoch Olympic Olympic’s Peuchen Phillips port reported rescue ship Carpathia RMS Titanic Robert Ballard saved Second Officer Senator Smith ship’s sinking Sir Rufus speed starboard side stern story survived survivors testified third class passengers Titanic disaster Titanic sank Titanic’s distress signal Titanic’s hull Titanic’s lifeboats Titanic’s maiden voyage Titanic’s wreck told unsinkable vessel Walter Lord watch watertight compartments watertight doors White Star Line women and children York