Titanic beyond the myth. 10 things unknown about the most famous maritime tragedy in history

RMS Titanic was the largest liner in the world, his departure maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York, on April 10, 1912. Three days after departure, on April 14, 1912, at 11:40 p.m., Titanic collided with an iceberg and at 2:30 the morning of the 15th of April, the ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean. After sinking died 1514 of the 2228 passengers on board. This was one of the largest peacetime maritime disasters in history and untold stories of Titanic May resurface today, 103 years after the sinking and 18 years after the launch of the famous film Titanic, directed by James Cameron .

We may think that Titanic struggled with ocean waves that have obstructed visibility fog and rain crew who has not seen the iceberg in time. In fact, the weather was perfect and eerily quiet. According to meteorologists Edward Lawrence, really good time too marked curse boat. He says that the slightest breeze would be pushed around iceberg phosphorescent plankton and scouts had seen the danger.

Weather was perfect. The difference between the 37-seconds to a minute

Himself of Titanic second officer Charles Lightoller, said that the absence of plankton was one of the reasons that led to the tragedy. Survey of 1912 revealed that the crew had only 37 seconds to change the course of the Titanic, so you do not hit the iceberg, but it was too late. A recent survey shows, however, that they were given more than one minute to make a move. In every aspect, the Titanic was doomed to perdition, write listverse.com.

"Fire" on board the Titanic

Shortly before leaving for fatal voyage, a fire broke out in the coal deposits of the Titanic. According to a British investigation, the flames still burning, when the liner went to New York. Irony of fate that the flames are extinguished even iceberg that hit the ship, leading to flooding rooms with coal. Some surviving members of the crew said the fire was extinguished the day before the Titanic to face with the fatal iceberg.

However we look at it, the "innards" of the ship all the way there was a fire, which put the lives of passengers in danger because steel bunkers were designed to withstand extremely high temperatures resulting from the burning of coal. Indirectly, the risk increased after the sinking of the Titanic owner, JP Morgan, forced the crew to sail at full speed, to get faster to New York with passengers, "before producing an eventual explosion." Morgan would have to be one of the passengers of the Titanic, but changed his mind at the last minute.

Outlook bleak William T. Stead's

In 1886, William T. Stead famous journalist wrote a fictional story about a ship that sank post in the Atlantic Ocean, in a collision, and most passengers drowned, the lack of lifeboats. Stead wanted to draw attention to the story incomplete water legislation, which does not require ships to have enough lifeboats, so they can be saved all the people on board, in case of an accident. Stead wrote a similar material in 1892, referring to a White Star Line steamship company, Majestic. In a chapter of the atmosphere ship across the Atlantic, loaded with tourists: "There was a noise as if the ship had been hit by ice and would have shaken all.

The passengers were accommodated where they could on deck. It was a cold weather. Every 30 seconds, fog whistle sounded. Because of the noise, people could no longer talk to each other. Then one of them shouted, "Iceberg starboard." 20 years later, Stead lost his life on the Titanic. Huge ship was only 20 lifeboats, sufficient for half of the passengers.

Captain flunks navigation

Edward John Smith, captain of the Titanic, was the "victim" of many myths in the last 103 years. Many believe that the old man rescued a child from the clutches of death prior to drown himself in the Atlantic after the sinking of the Titanic. The image of heroic is not fully true.

Captain Smith knowingly ignored warnings about icebergs and did not maintain a reasonable speed boat. It also allowed the lifeboats to leave more empty than full of passengers saved - first boat went rescued 27 passengers on the Titanic, although have 65 seats. Smith clearly has not issued an order to abandon the liner and many people did not know how serious the situation is. In 2012, historians have discovered that Smith failed the exam navigation and managed to advance in 1888. Before the sinking of the Titanic, Smith had earned the title of "Captain millionaire" because of the confidence they inspire those around them.

The only Japanese passengers on the Titanic

The only Japanese passengers on the Titanic was Masabumi Hosono, who studied in Europe rail systems and would get home, aboard liner. When the ship began to sink, he decided to face death with dignity. Given the 'women and children first be saved ", which administers the crew" with a gun passengers, "Hosono's would have been difficult to survive, but failed, eventually, to răzbească. The opportunity came when a member of the crew announced that a boat there were two seats and desperately jumped Hosono.

In Japan, Hosono was seen as a coward and many have criticized. Also Hosono was fired from his job governmental and subsequent articles about "Asians in lifeboat number 13" did not help at all ... In 1997, Hosono was relieved after he discovered a letter, that this had sent his wife specify exactly where the boat was 10 not 13, so it could not be "Asians" ridiculed by the press.

The real Titanic Necklace

In 1997 James Cameron film, Titanic, is mentioned a necklace named "Ocean Heart". On board the ship was cursed a lady named Kate Florence Philips, who received a valuable sapphire necklace from her lover married Henry Morley.

It was a rich entrepreneur aged 40, who had more candy shops in Worcester, England and Kate, aged 19, was carrying him. Morley wanted to leave his wife and daughter to live with Kate. The couple wanted to go to California, where to start a new life.

After the Titanic collided with the iceberg, Kate arrived in a lifeboat, but Morley was not so lucky. At exactly nine months after the tragedy of the Atlantic, Kate gave birth to a little girl named Ellen. In 1989, Ellen's story became known to the press after it came into office Worcester News newspaper, looking for a photo with her father. The newspaper published an article about the victims of the Titanic originating in Worcester and Ellen, aged 76, wept when he saw the picture of her father, Henry. She testified that received the necklace still holds his mother, Kate, and a key to the cabin on the Titanic.

In 2012, Ellen's niece, granddaughter Beverley Farmer and Morley, Deborah Allen, met to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster.

Mistakes and theories

It is clear that the Titanic sank after collided with the iceberg, but researchers wanted to explain what it was in this tragic situation. After the disaster, the specialists British and the Americans have established that the ship too fast. At a lower speed, the accident would have been easier and the captain could have avoided the iceberg. As is known, the impact broke six compartments of the ship, with two more than the acceptable level for the Titanic could stay afloat. In 2010, author Louise Patton, granddaughter of Charles Lightoller second officer suggested that Titanic could have avoided the collision with the iceberg if helmsman Robert Hitchins would not be panicked and turned the ship would be a fateful direction.

According to Patton, her grandfather tried to cover mistakes during the shipwreck, lest they destroy the reputation of the company White Star Line and crew. Meanwhile, two astronomers of Texas State University have speculated that it was a rare Supermoon blamed for moving the iceberg. A Supermoon occurs when the moon gets closest to the Earth. On January 4, 1912, Luna reached the nearest point to Earth in the last 1,400 years. This phenomenon occurred just a day after perihelion (when the sun is closest to the Earth). Moreover, the Moon and the Sun were aligned and generated a wave unusual in some parts of the journey. These astronomical discoveries could have a role in the tragedy of the Titanic.

Elizabeth Shutes

In the movie Titanic, the smell of ice failed to save liner. In reality, transient Elizabeth Shutes was so bothered by the smell of ice that could not sleep. Fortunately, she survived and wrote her version of the story of the sinking. Elizabeth was on the Titanic as governess to a 19-year-old girls named Margaret Graham.

Elizabeth managed to get into a lifeboat after the occurrence of a collision, in a boat where there were only 36 passengers, although there were plenty of seats. Even when given up the hope that it will survive, Elizabeth saved the crew SS Carpathia, along with other passengers.

Titanic and Costa Concordia, strange similarities

In 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship sank, even 100 years after the Titanic disaster and surfaced a number of strange theories. It is said that in the dining room of the Costa Concordia run, when the ship sank, the song "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion sung in the film Titanic (1997). Both ships were baptized wrong. Glass of champagne which was named Costa Concordia did not break the myth says that the same thing happened to Titanic (in fact, the Titanic did not last all through the rite of baptism in water). Also, both maritime disaster was due to human error and speed is too high.

The similarities end there, because Captain Smith is considered a hero who died along with his boat, while Francesco Schettino, captain of the Costa Concordia, will remain in history as a coward who abandoned ship before all passengers to be saved. Thus, when Schettino and first officer left the Costa Concordia wreck, was still on board 300 passengers.

Optical Illusions

Titanic crew sent some signals, when the ship sank. A ship close, Californian, ignored calls liner and despair of its captain had lost his job because of his ignorance. Another "ingredient" for disaster was the phenomenon of refraction of light. In the fateful night of 14 to 15 April 1912, Titanciul sailed through an area where cold air layers were below the warm air. This phenomenon causes mirages.

According to historian Tim Maltin, several ships have reported mirages night sinking of the Titanic. A similar mirage would have led the crew of the Californian SOS signals not correctly identify the Titanic. Maltin's discoveries occurred in 2012, 20 years after the British government gave up its investigation into the phenomenon of refraction of light in the night the Titanic sank.

Source: gandul.info

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