Thomas Andrews made design faults which could have been the deciding factor in the ship sinking after it was damaged. Andrews designed sixteen Page 2 watertight compartments for all of the Olympic liners which were intended to keep the ships afloat should an accident such as two ships colliding happen.

William Pirrie

Thomas Andrews was born on this day in 1873. He died in 1912, when the ship he had designed sank, after encouraging the Titanic’s passengers to get off the ship if they could.

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> No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J. Um, greenland sharks live in those cold waters, but dont feed on humans.

Question: When did the real Rose from the film “Titanic” die? Answer: The real woman Beatrice Wood, that the fictional character Rose was modeled after died in 1998, at the age of 105.

Nope. She dies, an old woman, warm in her bed, and she reunites with all the dead people in the Titanic. Her granddaughter exists because she probably got pregnant by Jack in their encounter in the car.

There are signs Rose was not a virgin in ‘Titanic’ However, there were more societal expectations attached to virginity in 1912. Later in the scene, Cal yells at Rose for spending time with Jack and tells her that by being engaged, she is expected to act as his wife.

No. Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater, portrayed in the movie by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, are almost entirely fictional characters (James Cameron modeled the character of Rose after American artist Beatrice Wood, who had no connection to Titanic history). The movie’s love story is also fiction.

Famous Titanic Passengers

• Colonel John Jacob Astor IV. Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, a real estate millionaire, sailed on the Titanic with his pregnant 18-year-old wife (he was 48).
• Madeleine Astor.
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• Isidor and Ida Straus.
• Margaret Tobin (Molly) Brown.
• Dorothy Gibson.
• Benjamin Guggenheim.

It’s Jack and Rose’s movie, but a lot of the people they meet had their own incredible stories. You probably already knew that Jack and Rose, the main characters in the 1997 movie Titanic, weren’t real. Like all films “based on a true story,” the movie added its own fictional elements to historical events.

By 2022, a new ship modeled after the Titanic could set sail for 2,400 passengers, thanks to Australian businessman Clive Palmer, who shelled out $500 million for the project. The Titanic ll, though outfitted with 21st-century navigation and safety technology, will be a close replica of the original vessel.

The cracks on the side of the ship caused by the iceberg led to significant water making its way onto the Titanic in a hurry. As the ship’s hull began to fill with far too much water for it to support, the front end began to sink, causing the weight distribution to go out of balance.

The wreck of the RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3.8 km; 2.37 mi; 3,800 m), about 370 miles (600 km) south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile (600 m) apart.

Douglas Woolley

According to the U.S. committee investigating the sinking, 1,517 lives were lost, and its British counterpart determined that 1,503 died. The crew suffered the most casualties, with about 700 fatalities. Third class also suffered greatly, as only 174 of its approximately 710 passengers survived.