Another piece of clothing recovered from the wreckage was the vest of William Henry Allen , a third-class passenger on the ship. The black wool vest was sold in a collection by Guernsey's Auctioneers in , nearly a century after the tragedy occurred.
Out of the wreckage of the Titanic also came a woman's karat rose gold and silver bracelet with the name Amy encrusted in diamonds. In her book Titanic: Women and Children First , Judith Geller , former director of merchandising for the Titanic exhibition, suggests that it might have belonged to Amy Stanley , a third-class passenger and one of the only Amys on board. When German-born chemist Adolphe Saalfeld boarded the Titanic , he did so with a satchel full of various perfume bottle samples —all of which were found in the ship's wreckage.
Saalfeld, a first-class passenger, had intended to open his own fragrance shop in America—a dream he sadly never realized. All Rights Reserved. Open side menu button. Here's a glimpse into the lives of those aboard the ill-fated ship. By Kali Coleman April 7, Read This Next. Titanic could have been constructed with a double hull. The technology to construct double hulls was available; SS Great Eastern had been launced with a complete double hull over 50 years earlier, in In a classic failure of risk management, Titanic 's manufacturers, alongside with most shipbuilders at the time, considered a full double hull an unnecessary expense, being satisfied with a double bottom instead.
This all changed after the disaster, with liners everywhere being refitted with full double hulls. Suddenly the expense didn't seem to matter so much. The quality of the riveting and steel plates could have been better. In the present day, ship plates are welded together using oxyacetelene torches. This technology was unvailable in Titanic' s time.
Instead, Titanic 's overlapping steel hull plates were held together by rivets that were hammered in by hand. Most of the rivets were steel, but some were made of wrought iron; according to some, the rivets were poor-quality and contained large amounts of slag. The actual holing of the ship was caused when she dragged over the surface of the iceberg, with the berg snapping or popping the rivets along the hull, allowing water to enter in between the hull plates.
The hull plates themselves are alleged to have not been strong enough, with signs of stress fracturing; but this is disputed. The ship's watertight bulkheads could have been extended and fully sealed to reduce the risk of flooding. Titanic was constructed with transverse bulkheads i. So far, so good. Many years later, when the Titanic remains were discovered, a re-examination took place.
The fate of the Titanic might, or might not have been averted. The British commission summed it up perfectly:. What was a mistake in the case of the Titanic will without doubt, be considered negligence in any similar case in the future.
The sinking was an accumulation of unfortunate events, and despite all the chances to avert the catastrophe, the disaster still took place. Perhaps the Titanic, the most luxurious, expensive and biggest liner of its time, was doomed to plunge on the seabed and ascend as one of the most famous ships in the collective memory. Until today, it is still debated whether the Californian could have saved the victims that perished with the Titanic. We will never know.
Submersible exploration revealed that the 3rd class gates to their gangways to the upper decks were indeed LOCKED, just as some survivors had said; contributing to the fatality rate; this was stonewalled by White Star Line for all those decades as false until recently. Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Search for: Search. Titanic in Southampton ready to start its maiden voyage. April Unknown author. Source 1 Double the hull, double the fun When the Titanic was built in , by the Harland and Wolff shipyard from Belfast, the technology of the double hull already existed, first used by the Great Eastern ship in The Titanic hull in the gantry.
Source The Titanic had a double bottom but not a double hull. Author: Georgewilliamherbert. Author: User Source When the iceberg impacted against the starboard right hand side of the Titanic, the rivets snapped off and the hull buckled, allowing water to gush faster than it could be pumped out. Both ships were almost identical. Source 3 Watertight bulkheads The Titanic hull was divided into sixteen compartments, which housed the boiler rooms, engines, mail room, cargo holds, etc.
Rose's mom was a bit pushy and overwhelming and she guilt-tripped her daughter into getting engaged to Cal in order to preserve their wealthy lifestyle, but she does love her kid. Letting her and, presumably, other family members and friends think she had died on the Titanic was a pretty harsh thing for Rose to do.
Would it really have been so hard to stand up to her mom and Cal and tell them she was going to live her own life? Faking your own death is a pretty extreme way of gaining independence.
What exactly did Rose do after she survived the Titanic? She has no clothes, no money, and no family to help out. How did she get by? While there was a Titanic Relief Fund , it seems unlikely that she would have been able to benefit from such a resource as she changes her name to Rose Dawson , a name that did not appear in the ship's manifest.
The name change and the fact that everyone thinks she is dead would also prevent her from claiming any sort of money or property that she had in her home or in a bank. We know that she worked as an actress in the s, but that still leaves eight years unaccounted for, as the Titanic sank in Rose is 17 and very likely doesn't have any sort of professional training considering that she was basically groomed to be a young bride, so how is she supporting herself?
It's possible Rose got a job as a governess or as a dance teacher. Or perhaps she let a family member in on the fact that she was alive and got some secret financial assistance. There's one way that Rose could have gotten by quite comfortably after surviving the Titanic. She could have sold the Heart of the Ocean, which she finds in the pocket of Cal's jacket, which she is still wearing when she is rescued.
The priceless necklace could have likely supported her for the rest of her life, but Rose doesn't sell it. Instead, she keeps it hidden away, dropping it into the ocean at the end of Titanic. While we can appreciate the symbolism in play of Rose finally letting go of the past, it's also wildly impractical, not to mention foolish, to drop the necklace.
Even if she hadn't wanted to sell it in her younger years and we can understand why she wouldn't want to do this, as the money would have technically come from Cal , she could still have later donated it to a museum, or sold it and given the money to charity. There's also the unpleasant tidbit that, had she returned the necklace to Cal, he might not have taken his own life after losing all his money in the stock market crash of Rose may have faked her death after the sinking of the Titanic, but Jack's friend, Fabrizio, actually did die.
He's the guy who wins someone else's ticket to sail on the Titanic at the beginning of the movie in a game of cards. Jack tells him he won't see his mother for a very long time since they're going to America. Considering that Jack and Fabrizio ran to board the Titanic, a ship that's since been plagued by myths , right after this scene, it doesn't seem likely that he had time to contact his family to let them know what he was planning to do.
It's possible he sent them a telegram from the ship, but, considering that Fabrizio didn't have much money, it seems more likely that he would have planned to wait until he arrived in New York to write a letter to his loved ones. If he wasn't able to contact his family, they'd have no way of knowing what happened to him. Fabrizio's name wasn't on the ship manifest, so there's no way they'll know he died on the Titanic unless a survivor who knew him manages to track them down. One of the more perplexing aspects of Titanic, which nearly had a very different ending , is the drawing that Jack makes of Rose.
Not only does it somehow survive more than years locked inside a safe that is flooded with ocean water, but it also doesn't look like it's aged a day. Drawn with charcoal, it seems unlikely that it would have survived under such conditions without so much as a smudge.
For that matter, why on earth was the drawing preserved at all?
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