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10 Amazing Facts About the Titanic

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10 Amazing Facts About the Titanic

7. Titanic was equipped with the best safety technology of her time.

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An authentic life vest from 1912

To make this ship essentially unsinkable, top technology had been used. Despite being taunted for not having enough lifeboats, the Titanic actually had more lifeboats than the minimum number mandated during the time. It had innovative watertight compartments, a Marconi wireless radio system, life vests and buoyancy rings. Even though a number of human errors made the state of the art technology useless, the tragedy paved the way for revolutionising maritime safety.

8. The Titanic carried some of the most powerful people during that time.

Among these passengers were the most influential people of the time including Benjamin Guggenheim, heir to a mining business, Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy’s in New York, Major Archibald Butt, aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, William Stead, journalist, and John Jacob Astor IV, a German-American millionaire who was the richest passenger on the ship.

via www.telegraph.co.uk
via www.telegraph.co.uk

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