--The Titanic was nicknamed: "The Millionaires' Special", "The Wonder Ship", "The Unsinkable", and "The Last World in Luxury".
--The people that reserved the B51 (one of the best suites), which had 3 rooms and its own promenade, paid almost $4,350 (in 1912) for it.
--It was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool and a gym.
--She had a French Cafe with French chefs.
--It had four Parole Suites, which were the most expensive cabins. Each was 50 feet in length, and two of them had their own promenade.
--The Titanic had three propellers; the middle one was 16 feet across, and the other two were over 23 feet across.
--The boilers of the Titanic were over 15 feet high.
--There were 29 boilers; each weighed nearly 100 tons.
--The Titanic had a great triple-toned whistle. It was the largest ever built.
--Workers loaded 5,892 tons of coal aboard the Titanic for her maiden voyage. She burned 690 tons per day.
--Stokers were working day and night shoveling coal into the boilers that created the steam that drove the giant reciprocating engines.
--The Titanic was about 882.9 feet long, and 92.5 feet broad.
--The height from keel to the top of the funnels was 175 feet.
--It had 9 decks. She was as high as an 11 story building.
--There were 4 elevators, 3 in first class and 1 in second class. This was the first boat to have an elevator in second class.
--It had 66,000 tons of displacement.
--23 tons of soap, grease, and train oil were used to slide the Titanic into the water. The whole process took only 62 seconds.
--The Titanic traveled twice her length, reaching the speed of 12 knots, before coming to a stop by six anchor cahins and 2 piles of cable drag chains weighing 80 tons each.
--During construction an astonishing 3 million rivets had been hammered into her hull.
--For her maiden voyage, she carried enough food to feed a small town for several months.
--If placed upright, the Titanic would have been taller that any of the buildings of her day.
--The Titanic, built and equipped at a cost of $7,500,000 to $10,000,000 (in 1912). It was referred to as a 'Floating Palace'.
--The wealthiest passenger aboard ws Colonel John Jacob Astor, with a fortune estimated at arounf 100 million dollars. He did not survive.

--This graph shows the number of people saved according to class and gender

--Sir Walter Lord for a long time reported that people thought the real reason why the Titanicsank. He says that after the building of the ship's hull, a number was assigned to it: 390904. This number has a secret, hidden meaning, for whenit is held up to a mirror, it spells no pope, as the above pic shows. The rumor is that the Ulster Protestants who built the Titanic assigned the number to her on purpose and that divine retribution followed. He disproved this rumor by finding the real number that was recorded by Harland and Wolff.

--The location of the lifeboats is also a mystery. After the survivors deserted the lifeboats, they were taken to New York City where they floated by docks for some time. They then disappeared, never to be seen, or at least recognized again. The most popular opinion is that the White Star Line removed the markings and sold them to different luxery liners.

--The coal fire: There really was a fire in one of the coal bunkers. There had been a fire burning there since before Titanic departed, but it was well under control, and only considered a minor annoyance by the crew. All coal burning ships had this problem at one time or another. Not a factor in anything that happened to the Titanic on that night.

--The dummy funnel: The Titanic's fourth funnel, the one furthest back, was a fake. Why? Aesthetics. It made the ship look bigger, and among the many immigrants, many who couldn't read company literature or timetables, believed that the more funnels a ship had, the faster it was. In their rush to get to America, this could be a deciding factor on what ship they bought tickets for.

--The ship's christening: The Titanic was never christened. This is the ceremony where the ship is blessed and a bottle of champagne is broken against the hull. It has long been believed by seamen to bring good luck to the ship and her crew. There have been reports that say that Harland and Wolff and White Star Line almost never christened their ships, so who knows.

--The unsinkable Violet Jessup?: Violet Jessup was a White Star Lines employee, a stewardess, who had worked on Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, prior to her transfer to Titanic. While she was aboard Olympic, it was struck by a British warship. The warship Hawke collided with the Olympic, causing considerable damage to both. It was later determined that the Hawke was sucked into the Olympic by her powerful wake. Then, of course, being aboard Titanic, Violet was subjected to the sinking, and she survived without injury. Then, she found herself on the Brittanic, as a nurse. Once again, Violet felt the ship shudder, and the Brittanic, upon striking a mine off the coast of Greece, sank into the depths. But Violet lived. Is she lucky or what?

--Champion boxer Jack Johnson supposedly was refused first class passage on the Titanic, due to the fact that he was African American. He would not travel in the second or third class areas offered to him, because he thought it was below his stature. Disgusted, he never boarded the Titanic, and booked travel on another liner. But this is not a true story, so don't get upset. It was just a rumor.

--Another story going around about the Titanic is the story about the cursed Egyptian mummy on board. There is no information to back this up, so I would believe it to be a false rumor.

--Someone started a rumor that the White Star Line had insurance problems, and for some very weird reasons, switched the Olympic and the Titanic. So it was actually the Olympic that sank that night, it just had Titanic's nameplate, stationary,etc.. This is not even plausible.

--The Mysterious Death of Officer Murdoch: During the ship's last moments decorum vanished as passengers struggled to get seats on the few remaining lifeboats. As these were lowered, many survivors reported hearing the sound of gunfire. Witnesses claimed that an officer shot several men attempting to rush a boat. Afterward, they claimed, the officer pointed the gun to his own head and committed suicide. Several of these survivors identified him as First Officer Murdoch, who had been piloting the ship at the time of the disaster. Since Murdoch's body was never recovered, no one knows for sure what happened to him in those last desperate moments.

--First Class First "Women and children first," was the tradition, but not all women and children survived the Titanic's sinking. In fact a high percentage of third-class females and children drowned. Popular opinion raged at the arrogance of those in the first cabin who assumed they had a right to salvation--at the expense of those in the third. Despite accusations that steerage passengers were blocked from entering the lifeboats, official inquiries absolved the White Star line of any blame. No woman was purposely denied a seat--the trick was getting to the boatdeck. Though accessible from first and second class, the boatdeck was all but impossible to find from the hold. The ship's winding corridors, physical barriers between the decks, lack of safety drills, and non-English-speaking immigrants ensured that the disaster would take a heavy toll in third class.

--Failed Safe: It's widely believed that inside the Titanic's rusting hull lies a fortune in jewels and millions of dollars in gold bullion. But like other Titanic legends, this one is also false. The Titanic's cargo manifest was actually rather nondescript. There were no gold or silver shipments, though there were two unusual items: a be-jeweled copy of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a Renault automobile. Neither was saved. As for the jewels, most left with their owners. When the ship began to list, most of the ladies headed for the Purser's office to fetch their jewels. In fact, the Purser sent crew members to remind passengers to retrieve their valuables. Apparently, he was tying up loose ends. Successfully, too, it would seem. When his safe was salvaged and opened on a 1987 TV spectacular, it was empty.

-- What a Drag: The legend of a man dressing up as a woman to get on one of the Titanic's lifeboats is untrue. The story was concocted by reporters about survivor William T. Sloper, who had spurned their request for an interview. After disembarking from the Carpathia, a tired Sloper was in no mood to talk to the press, and he forcibly ejected several newsmen from his room at the Waldorf Astoria. The journalists took their revenge by printing a story that had Sloper dressing up in women's clothes to get off the Titanic. Convinced a libel suit would be more profitable for his lawyers than himself, Sloper never sued. Instead he spent the rest of his life debunking the allegation.

-- Iceberg Cocktails? Not Very Likely: According to several witnesses, when the Titanic hit the iceberg, chunks of ice fell onto well deck C (between forecastle and bridge). As dramatized in the film A Night to Remember, passengers saved pieces as souvenirs and, in fun, dropped it in their drinks. However, it's unlikely the ice came from the iceberg. Emergency lifeboat #1 would have certainly been destroyed if the berg were that close. Instead, it was launched in perfect condition and showed no damage. The ice probably came from the ship's rigging when jolted by the collision. Moreover, many survivors told of the iceberg's foul odor. Icebergs often reek of freshly thawed and decaying vegetable and animal matter--a funk not at all suitable for Scotch on the rocks.

-- Was Inferior Steel to Blame?: In 1994 metallurgists gathered pieces of the Titanic's hull retrieved from the wreck site. The steel edges appeared jagged with no evidence of bending. Upon testing, the metal proved far more brittle than modern steel. When the Titanic was built, shipbuilders tested only for tensile strength, not flexibility. Scientists speculate that if the builders had been concerned with embrittlement, the hull would have absorbed more shock and suffered less damage. The Titanic might have remained afloat long enough for the Carpathia to rescue her. Adding to the brittleness was the water temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit. For high-quality modern steel to shatter as the Titanic's hull did, the water temperature must reach 130 degrees below zero.