Top 5 Titanic Facts You Did Not Know! RMS Titanic facts to wow your friends!

Here are five things you might not know about Titanic.
1) A lot of the photos you’ve seen of Titanic were actually taken aboard Olympic.
2) There were dogs carried aboard Titanic.
3) Titanic wasn’t the fastest ship in the world or most revolutionary ship of her day.
4) Titanic had her own post office aboard, and
5) Titanic left on her maiden voyage almost 1 month late!
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Image References:
Thank you to Rob Henderson and Doug Cremer for images from the Henderson & Cremer Collection used in this video.
Dilon Chodhury (pointer icon) cc. By Attribution via Adobe Spark
2023 thumbnail image: White Star Line poster. CC. O public domain: bit.ly/3Y2ZGCw
Other image licenses are as follows:
→ Titanic in Belfast - CC0 1.0 - bit.ly/30ZoTBK
→ Engraving by Willy Stöwer: Der Untergang der Titanic - Library of Congress, Public Domain - bit.ly/3lv0lKo + Thumbnail v. 2.
→ Titanic Launch - Public Domain - bit.ly/30WB3vd
→ Olympic 1st Class Restaurant - Public Domain - bit.ly/30UP0tN
→ Titanic leaving Southampton - CC0 1.0 - bit.ly/2NxdVk1
→ Olympic leaving New York - Library of Congress - Public Domain - bit.ly/3bYBwDp
→ Titanic Southampton - Public Domain - bit.ly/2P8mLVA
→ HMHS Britannic - Public Domain - bit.ly/3c2dHe2
→ Olympic Launch - Public Domain - bit.ly/3cMFkXM
→ Olympic Navigation Bridge - Public Domain - bit.ly/3cMvTYb
→ Olympic Grand Staircase - Public Domain - bit.ly/3s1x38L
→ Olympic 1st Class Elevators - CC0 1.0 - bit.ly/3c196Je
→ Olympic 1st Class Smoking Room - Library of Congress - Public Domain - bit.ly/2NxJ5b1
→ Titanic Cafe Parisien - Public Domain - bit.ly/2NzBxEE
→ Titanic Cabin B-58 - Public Domain - bit.ly/30TXRvM
→ Olympic Grand Staircase Upper - Public Domain - bit.ly/3cR62hZ
→ Olympic Grand Staircase Lower - Public Domain - bit.ly/3bX08wp Thumbnail 3
→ Titanic Lifeboat - National Archives - Public Domain - bit.ly/3ls0ePS
→ Titanic Hull View - Public Domain - bit.ly/3r5XBEl
→ Titanic at Cherbourg - CC0 1.0 - bit.ly/30VyuK7
→ Olympic Boilers - Public Domain - bit.ly/38WbTS5
→ Olympic Propellers - Public Domain - bit.ly/3ltDMpm
→ Mailbags Stacked - State Library NSW - Public Domain - bit.ly/3c0LTa1
→ Olympic Collision Press - Public Domain - bit.ly/3cKf6Fq
→ Titanic and Olympic at Belfast - Public Domain - bit.ly/2NwRQSx
→ Titanic Inquiry UK - Public Domain - bit.ly/3r2PMzg
→ Titanic “Suspected” Iceberg - Public Domain - bit.ly/30X6aXD
→ Lusitania Wireless Room - Public Domain - bit.ly/2NvvDEn
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Music: KZbin Audio Library
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The sinking of Titanic was a very well publicised maritime disaster. Many people lost their lives and many of those that survived were haunted by the aftermath. But there were some positive outcomes as well.
There were several inquiries into the disaster, and from those inquiries new regulations and recommendations were made that influence shipping even today. Some of those things are the requirement for there to be lifejackets and lifeboats for every person carried on board a vessel.
There is also the International Ice Patrol, which monitors icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Radio rooms became manned 24/7.
And the first version of the International SOLAS conventions were adopted, which specify minimum standards for construction, equipment and safety procedures of vessels.
2023 thumbnail image: CC. 0: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/...
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[@EmmaCruises]

The swimming pool is my favourite part, so cool! 🎉⚓️

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

A pool on a ship? Outstanding! PS: Olympic had it first!

[@DerpyPossum]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial actually, RMS Adriatic had it first.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

@@DerpyPossum oh yes I just meant Olympic was before Titanic 🚢

[@GardeningLadybug]

Great insights about Titanic.

[@GardeningLadybug]

I’ve been waiting for a Titanic video for ages. Nice one.

[@williampolk9782]

Great video Chris... I think I was about 10, as well, when I read my first book about the Titanic 😃 I've been fascinated ever since with Titanic 😃

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Sounds so familiar!

[@harrietharlow9929]

I got into the Titanic at 44 but 25 years later, still going strong. Took exactly one evening of reading to get totally hooked.

[@abacuscalculator7478]

This was excellent. I can’t wait to see you lecture live on QM2 one day.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you!

[@ardiffley-zipkin9539]

Thanks, Chris. I always find your videos to be interesting.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you 😊

[@gilbydog7350]

Great video on the Titanic Chris. I had no idea that Titanic had a Post Office, or that it had a cat that may or may not have survived, or that its maiden voyage was about three weeks late. Interesting that speed was not as bit a deal for the White Star line as portrayed, you wonder why they took risks with the Titanic on the night of the collision with the Iceberg.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thanks so much!

[@sethleel2754]

Great video Chris, titanic also got me into ocean liners

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you :) I think it's the same for many of us - a captivating story! Not my favourite historic ship, but the one that sparked the interest.

[@sethleel2754]

Yes definitely

[@andreagriffiths3512]

It was interesting and whilst I knew these facts, I enjoyed your video. The Titanic was also carrying more people than originally planned due to a coal strike. Many other ships were grounded and Titanic took their passengers and coal.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

That’s right! There’s so many fascinating details about the ship and her fateful journey. Thanks for the kind comment.

[@gaynor247]

Really interesting, I would love to be on a cruise where you are the guest speaker! Slightly spooky that today is the anniversary of the sinking...

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you. I’d love to be speaking aboard again soon and hopefully see you in the audience :)

[@yougitubgi6219]

Nice video

[@michaelrennie4589]

Great video. I also love the history of the sea !! I hope you will produce more of this style of videos !!

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you! You may enjoy this one too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npCweWaKZ7Vqabs

[@joanfreestone1707]

Thank you, Chris. Very interesting information.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

thank you!

[@catherineb6561]

Fascinating as always. Thanks Chris. Stay safe.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thank you! You too :)

[@Kaidhicksii]

As a Titanic buff, everything you mentioned I already knew 😅. I too was introduced to the world of liners when I read a book about the Titanic as a fourth grader, and long story short it has done a lot for me since. One other fun fact I'd want to add is that in Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella 'Futility' (which eerily predicted the Titanic sinking 14 years later), the ship in the book, the Titan, was on its third transatlantic voyage before going down. Doing simple math, had Titanic left on March 20th as initially scheduled, and crossed the Atlantic in 7 days as she was scheduled to do on her maiden voyage, then come April 10th, she too would have been on her third transatlantic voyage. The only difference thereafter would be that the Titan was on a return trip from NY to Southampton, which would mean that Titanic would have to leave NY on April 20th to keep up with her fictional predecessor. 3 voyages in I think there would've been a lot more photographs of her. At the same time, her sinking on her maiden voyage rather than her third was probably a more impactful thing.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thanks so much for the comment. As a Titanic buff you may like this one too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npCweWaKZ7Vqabs

[@harrietharlow9929]

Always nice to hear from other Titanic buffs. Very interesting thought had her maiden voyage not being delayed and what might have happened. The "what might have beens" are interesting indeed.

[@rosethefirechieftess1683]

From what I’ve read, neither Jenny nor her 4 kittens survived. :( Chris is right as this is disputed and no one really knows what happened. I unfortunately think she and her kittens ultimately went down with the ship. Cats naturally fear water (with a few exceptions to the larger cats such as tigers and Jaguars) so I theorize she probably hid with her kittens. RIP Jenny, all the dogs, and all the lost souls on board.

[@gilbydog7350]

I suspect you're right. Realistically the Cat could not take her kittens off the ship before it sailed, she would have been kept on board to hunt rats and mice. Furthermore there are reports of some crew seeing Jenny on the night of the sinking.

[@GardeningLadybug]

This video deserves more views!!

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

I agree 🤣

[@GardeningLadybug]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial 😅😅😅

[@xmarcosnavigator]

🥰🥰

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

aww one close to your heart! How did I do? :)

[@GardeningLadybug]

👍

[@RCKodak]

Good.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thanks

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

Very interesting indeed. I wonder how long the Titanic might have been in service had she never hit an iceberg or had any other type of accident. i.e. her "useful life," so to speak. Of course World War I was right around the corner. I wonder too if she might have been put into some type of service during that war. Did anyone collect insurance for the ship's loss? And did any survivors or family members of passengers who perished ever sue White Star Lines?

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

I imagine if she had survived, during WWI she would have been a troop carrier like Olympic, and potentially a hospital ship like Britannic. Olympic survived until the early 1930s, which seems like a reasonable timeframe for Titanic too had she survived.

[@user-bu7jl6zy5d]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial Thank you Chris. It is interesting to think about Titanic if she had not hit the iceberg. Like all great tragedies, it seems that a small mistake here, another one there, a few feet one direction, etc. together resulted in a catastrophe. Thank you for an informative video.

[@ericpatterson8596]

Long live Rms Titanic !!

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Thanks for watching :)

[@dotdots2660]

What ships afloat today would be a similar size to titanic? I mean I know she’s way smaller than most cruise liners, but surely she would still be regarded as a fairly big ship, bigger than ferries etc.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Bigger than Ferries yes. She would be around the same Tonnage as the Artania, albeit longer in length but shorter in height.

[@dotdots2660]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial thank you very much for the information, I’ve always wondered as I live in Southampton, I’ve always thought she’s a similar size to queen vicky

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

She’s about 100ft shorter than QV and would be several decks shorter to the top of the superstructure. Here’s a cool diagram showing her vs. QM2: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Mary_2-Titanic.svg

[@katherinemurphy2762]

If anyone wants a good book to read or listen to (I found this on Audible), I HIGHLY recommend Other Side of the Night by Daniel Allen Butler. This is a non- fiction book that covers the technology of the day and the contrasting responses of the captains of the Carpathia and Californian to the Titanic disaster. It is a captivating book that made me simultaneously mad at the captain of the Californian and eternally grateful to the captain of the Carpathia. I won't divulge any more- read the book!!

[@johannesbols57]

2:42 Monday the 15th of April.

[@triplescrewsteamers]

Violet Jessup reported seeing Jenny and in some pantry where she was taken care of. Now, I'm pretty sure that Jessup would have boarded the ship early on the 10th and helped passengers find their cabins, get settles etc... Would that give her enough time to visit the kitchen/pantry to notice the cat before the ship left Southampton? It's highly unlikely, but if I had the real testimony in which she said that she sighted Jenny we could try to pinpoint if it was while the ship was still in Southampton or after it had already left to try and determine whether or not Jenny and her kittens also perished that night.

[@Airships]

Queen Mary 2 does not have a post office and mail cannot be posted onboard QM2. In earlier times, ships like Titanic, Queen Mary, etc. did have a post office and accepted mail, which was franked (stamped) with the postage of the country of the ship's registry (because you were in that country when the ship was on the high seas). For example, a letter could be posted on Titanic with British stamps and it would be postmarked and accepted into the British postal system just as any other letter posted on land in Great Britain. Upon arrival in any nation (e.g. the United States) that British mail was turned over to the local postal system for delivery, just like any other mail posted at any other place in the UK. Queen Mary 2 does not operate a post office Yes, you can hand them a stamped letter, which as a courtesy they will place in the mail upon arrival, but it must have the postage of the nation into whose mail stream it will be deposited, as opposed to the postage of QM2's nation of registry, Bermuda, and the letter will not be postmarked or accepted into the mail system onboard Queen Mary 2. If you are sailing from UK to USA, for example, you must use USA stamps and the staff of QM2 will turn your letter over to USPS on arrival in New York; that is where it will enter the postal system.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

I didnt think I said the ship had a post office aboard but you definitely can post mail aboard QM2. Stamps are sold at the pursers office - US stamps when enroure to America and UK stamps when enroure to Britain - and you post them either at the pursers desk or in the letterbox outside the pub. The letters are postmarked “posted aboard QM2”. Many cruise ships offer stamps to guests but given QM2 is the last Atlantic liner she’s the last way to post mail from mid-Atlantic.

[@RCKodak]

I’ve posted letters from QM2. I think you misunderstood what Chris said.

[@Boeing_Luke]

Hi Chris, long time listener first time caller, what happened to the Olympic? Is there reason she wasn’t preserved as a famous ship from her time.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Your name sounds familiar. Are you sure we haven’t spoken before? Olympic was scrapped 😱 she served until the Cunard/White Star merger and then was retired. It’s strange to think but Titanic is more famous now than she was in the 1930s. People knew of her, but not the way we do these days. The wreck discovery followed by the ‘97 Titanic movie made the ship more famous than ever before. What a shame Olympic was lost. Imagine how epic it would be to step aboard.

[@Boeing_Luke]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial would have been amazing if she was kept and preserved especially as she was the sister ship to Titanic. Lucky we have Clive Palmer thinking of building Titanic 2 ha ha ha

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

🤣

[@brennarizzardi135]

What ship, if any, would you say is most like what the Titanic was?

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Probably closest today would be QM2 because it does transatlantic and still maintains formality. But it’s worlds apart from Titanic.

[@mrslothshere6328]

As a person who studies old ocean liners like titanic , I can say atleast these are true !

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Hello again. Glad you liked this video. Just to clarify, you haven't seen or heard anything untrue from any of my videos - the information presented is all researched and accurate, however I acknowledge you disagree with the analysis in a number of my videos which is, of course, your prerogative. Thanks for watching.

[@mrslothshere6328]

@@ChrisFrameOfficial I didn't tell that all of your facts are wrong. In the qm2 vs titanic video I only pointed that titanic had more fixtures artworks with wood,gold fixtures, elegant windows , ceiling with fixtures and carvings etc in her top first class cabins . So I meant that titanic was luxurious looking ship than qm2 in first and second but comfort and facilities was obviously better in qm2. In that video on 'history of bath facilities in ships' by you , I only meant that you should have added that britannic would have almost all her first class cabins access to private bathrooms and toilets. Because as you said qm1, two decades later built ship ,didn't had all her first class cabins access to private bath.

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

@@mrslothshere6328 it would have been interesting to have seen the three Olympic-class ships go head to head with Mauretania, Lusitania and Aquitania [in an alternate universe]. I wonder what would have happened!

[@duanebrankley8984]

What do think if the "New" Titanic being built in China?

[@tonylarussa4046]

Running out of ideas Chris?

[@ChrisFrameOfficial]

Not so far, but feel free to suggest anything you’d like to see 😊

[@GardeningLadybug]

I so glad you’re doing more history Chris that what you’re best known for. 👍 keep it up

[@RCKodak]

Strange comment