April 14/15 2012 commemorate 100th anniversary of sinking of Titanic, some interesting facts and stories?

This coming Saturday and Sunday (April 14th/15 2012) marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. In 1912 the Titanic hit the iceberg between 11.40 pm and 11.50 pm Sunday April 14, 1912 and the Titanic sank at approx. 2.20 a.m on Monday morning, April 15, 1912.

Out of 2 223 people on board only 705 survived.

In first class 4 women died...all of them of their own choosing (Ida Strauss wanted to stay with her husband of many years and choose to not get into a lifeboat. Only one of the first class passenger children died.

There was big class divison between 1st and 2nd class but even more so between first class and streerage (3rd class)

Some famous survivors of 3rd class was the last Titanic Survivor Millvina Dean who passed away in 2009 at age 97, she was only 10 weeks old in April 2012.

Her brother Bertram Dean was born in 1910 and lived until 1992

The other last survivors were Lillian Gertrude Apslund 3rd class passenger, 1906 - 2006

Eva Hart 1995 - 1995

Michel Navratil 1908 - 2001

Ruth Becker 1999 - 1990

Here some facts and survivor pictures and stories that might interest some of you..

http://cheddarbay.com/0000Tea/Titanic/passengers/s...

http://www.eszlinger.com/titanic/titanfacts.html

http://www.the-titanic.com/Passengers.aspx

The movie Titanic was epic but it did not have a lot in common with the real facts but the facts about the class differences were true as well as that bow and the stern of the Titanic really broke into two different parts which was under dispute until the Titanic wreckage was found in the late 1980s when it was proved a fact and the interior of the ship in the movie Titanic is very much as it must have been in 1912. Very authentic..

1. What do you think of the stories?

2. will you or did you watch the movie Titanic in 3D which is in cinemas now?

How did you like it if you saw it?

3. Will you think for a moment on Sunday about those gone in this terrible disaster on it's 100th anniversary...?

4. if some stories about the Titanic interest you, what interests you most?

For me it has to be the people...the ship cost millions and it took 3 years to build it and it's tragic that such a beautiful ship on which so many people worked would not even survive it's maiden voyage but for me human loss of life always counts more and I find it sad that only 705 people survived...because of so many reasons and of course Captian Smith never had to deal with disaster and there were not enough lifeboats and most of them were half empty when lowered into the the Atlantic...because the gravity of the situation was not clear to many passengers until it was too late for most...x

Please feel free to share your thoughts. Thanks x