How many people died on the RMS Titanic?
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Copied from:  http://search.eb.com/titanic/researchersnote.html\n\n(The Encyclopedia Britannica Online site.)\n\n\nResearcher's Note\nThere has never been universal agreement over the number of lives lost in the sinking of the Titanic. Beginning with the first news reports of the disaster, inquirers have found it unwise to trust the original passenger and crew lists, which were rendered inaccurate by such factors as misspellings, omissions, aliases, and failure to count musicians and other contracted employees as either passenger or crew. Agreement was made more difficult by the international nature of the disaster, essentially involving a British-registered liner under American ownership that carried more than 2,000 people of many nationalities. Immediately after the sinking, official inquiries were conducted by a special committee of the U.S. Senate (which claimed an interest in the matter on the grounds of American lives lost) and the British Board of Trade (under whose regulations the Titanic operated). The figures established by these hearings are as follows:\n\nU.S. Senate committee: 1,517 lives lost\nBritish Board of Trade: 1,503 lives lost\n\nConfusion over the above figures was immediately aggravated by the official reports of these bodies to the U.S. Senate and the British Parliament; these reports revised the numbers to 1,500 and 1,490, respectively. The figures have been revised, officially and unofficially, so many more times since 1912 that most researchers and historians concede that they will never know how many people died on the Titanic.\n \n\n \nHope this helps!
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Q. what's the difference between Bill Clinton and the Titanic? \n\nA.only 200 women went down on the Titanic.
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RMS TITANIC - SPECIFICATIONS\n\n\nLength: 882 feet, 8 inches/268 meters \nGross tonnage: 46,328 tons \nNet tonnage: 24,900 tons \nTotal capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded \nDecks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck, A,B,C,D,E,F,G and below G boiler rooms. \nBeam: 92.5 feet/28 meters \nHeight: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels. \nDepth: 59.5 feet \nDraft: about 34 feet \nEngines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct - acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm \nPropellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches \nBoilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers) \nFurnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet \nSteam pressure: 215 P.S.I. \nWatertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck \nLifeboat davits: 14 double acting Welin's with Murrays disengaging gear \nLifeboats: 20 total as follows:\n14 wood lifeboats each 30’0" long by 9’1" by 4’0" deep with a capacity of 65 persons each\n2 wood cutters 25’2" long by 7’2" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each\n4 Englehardt collapsible boats 27’5" by 8’0" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 47 persons each\n\n\nLifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,178 persons \nPersonal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys \nFuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day \nWater consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day \nTop Speed: 23 knots \nStaterooms: 840\nFirst Class: 416\nSecond Class: 162\nThird Class: 262 plus 40 open berthing areas\n\nConstruction and fitting out time:   3 Years \nRivets used in the hull:  3 million\n\nNote: The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship. \n\nMORE FACTS \n\nCost of a ticket (one way)\n\n\nFirst Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350 ($69,600 today) \nFirst Class (berth) £30/$150 ($2400 today) \nSecond Class £12/$60 ($960 today) \nThird Class £3 to £8/$40 ($172 to $640 today) \nNote: In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 ($10) per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week. A single First Class berth would have cost these workers 4 to 8 months wages.\n\nFee to send a wireless telegram: 12 shillings and sixpence/$3.12 ($50 today), for the first 10 words, and 9 pence per word thereafter. \nPassenger telegrams sent & received during the voyage: over 250.\n\nCost of the Titanic (in 1912): $7,500,000\nCost to build Titanic today: over $400,000,000\n\nCrew Salaries\n\n\nCaptain E.J. Smith, Titanic: £105 a month \nCaptain Rostron, Carpathia: £53 per month \nSeaman Edward Buley: £5 a month \nLook-out G.A. Hogg: £5 and 5 shillings a month \nRadio Operator Harold Bride: £48 per month \nSteward Sidney Daniels: £3 and 15 shillings a month \nStewardess Annie Robinson: £3 and 10 shillings a month \nNote: The range of wages was quite extreme in 1912. In today's money, Captain Smith earned about $100,000 per year while Stewardess Robinson earned only $3300 per year!\n\nPassenger Facilities: \n\n2 Parlor Suites each with a 50 foot private promenade and 67 other First Class Staterooms & Suites. Decorating designs included: Louis Seize, Empire, Adams, Italian Renaissance, Louis Quinze, Louis Quatorze, Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern Dutch and Old Dutch. Some had marble coal burning fireplaces. \nGymnasium with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric horse. \nA heated swimming pool (the first ever built into a vessel). \nSquash court on F deck. \nTurkish bath. \n2 Barber shops with automated shampooing and drying appliances available for all classes.. \nFirst & Second class smoking rooms (for the men). \nReading and writing rooms (for the ladies). \nFirst & Second class libraries. \n10,488 square foot First
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Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Saturday in Shrewsbury, Mass. She was 99.\n\nHer death was reported by Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel, a funeral home in Worcester, Mass.\n\nMs. Asplund, who was just 5 when she sailed on the Titanic, lost her father and three brothers, including a twin, when the ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. \n\nMs. Asplund's mother, Selma, and another brother, Felix, who was 3, also survived the sinking on the early morning of April 15, 1912.\n\nMs. Asplund shunned publicity and rarely spoke about the events.\n\nAt least two other survivors are living. They are Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, England, who was 10 months old, and Elizabeth G. Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old.\n\nThe Asplund family boarded the ship in Southampton as third-class passengers on their way back to Worcester from their ancestral homeland, Sweden, where they had spent several years.\n\nMs. Asplund's mother described the sinking in an interview with The Worcester Telegram shortly after she and her two children arrived in the city.\n\nSelma Asplund said the family went to the Titanic's upper deck after the ship struck the iceberg.\n\n"I could see the icebergs for a great distance around," she said. "It was cold and the little ones were cuddling close to one another and trying to keep from under the feet of the many excited people. \n\n"My little girl, Lillie, accompanied me, and my husband said 'Go ahead, we will get into one of the other boats.' He smiled as he said it."\n\nBecause the family lost all of their possessions and money, the city of Worcester held a fund-raiser and a benefit concert that together brought in about $2,000 for the surviving Asplunds.\n\nLillian Asplund never married and worked at secretarial jobs in the Worcester area most of her life. \n\nShe retired early to care for her mother, who was described as having never recovered from the disaster.\n\nSelma Asplund died on the 52nd anniversary of the sinking in 1964 at age 91. Felix Asplund died on March 1, 1983, at age 73.
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Of the ~1500 people who died, only about 900 bodies were recovered.  For months after, life-jacketed decomposing bodies were spotted by ships takinga similar route.  Perhaps the most famous person to dieon Titanic, John Jacob Astor wasnt pulled from the untill several months after he died, badly decomposed.  No bodies actually washed ashore, but many were lost at sea.
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I'm not sure that we know. The sources I found said that 30,000 people died, but there are "no detailed records."
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titanic 2???? wat the hell therez only 1 titanic y a second movie
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Titanic-  All the way!!
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Okay, dissecting this piece by piece:\n\n1) NO, the Titanic was not on the iceberg when it sank. The berg scraped along the side of the ship, which continued to travel for some time (I believe it was more than an hour) before going down completely, snapping in two as it did.\n\n2) No sites or theories, sorry.\n\n3) Yes, and no - in some ways, the White Star Line was responsible, but in other ways, it was not. They were pushing for a new Atlantic speed record, and so the captain didn't slow down even when he was warned of the danger of icebergs. This was his fault. \n\nHowever, what actually sank the "unsinkable" ship was this: the watertight compartments in the bottom of the ship, which SHOULD have made the ship unsinkable! When the ship scraped the berg, the FRONT compartments were breached by ice below the waterline, while the BACK compartments were not. Water flooded the front compartments, making the ship "top heavy" in the bow end. This pulled the front of the ship down. In the scenarios envisioned by the WSL, ALL the compartments would have flooded, and the ship would have continued to float because the water wouldn't have been able to get above the level of those compartments. However, they DIDN'T flood that way. That's also why the ship went down bow-first - the bow was heavier than the stern.\n\n4) I'm not aware of where the steel was obtained, but sheared rivets (the fasteners that held the ship together, cut in two by hitting the berg) recovered from the ocean floor show that there were flaws in the composition of the steel. \n\n\nPersonal observation: you might have better luck arguing that it was the WSL's fault that so many people died, as opposed to the crash itself being their fault. Why? Because:\n\n1) Not enough lifeboats\n2) Lowering half-filled lifeboats (Yes, this really happened - it wasn't just in the movie)\n3) Waiting for a long period of time before attempting to rescue any of the people who lived, but didn't make it to a lifeboat and froze in the water instead\n4) People from the lower classes were actually sealed belowdecks to keep the lifeboat stations from being swamped, and to allow the "more valuable" passengers to get off first. More than 2/3 of the ship's population was from second and third class. \n\nIf I were you, I'd check Wikipedia for articles on the Titanic, and do a basic Internet search. Try "How did the Titanic sink?" and "How was the Titanic built?" on ask.com to get good results.
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Alot, mostly from dehydration or a heart attack or stroke. I don't think hospitals have released official numbers but its not uncommon where I live to hear of someone dying from it.
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634. More than in any other conflict.\n\nSee here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross
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April 30 - Sparks from a burning hayshed ignite the Great Fire of 1911, destroying much of downtown Bangor, Maine.\n\nSeptember 20 - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton, England. \n\nNovember 3 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market to compete with the Ford Model T.
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There were three Titanic survivors still living as of April 15, 2005 - the anniversary of the ship's sinking in 1912 - and the Titanic International Society lists them as still living. You can read about them here:
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Oh, I can't believe it!  It was "Lost in Space!" Ugh.\nIt passed Titanic on the weekend starting April 3, 1998.  Oh boy.
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2,752 \n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/29/wtc.deaths/
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This site lists people who survived the Titanic who might still be alive today: http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/trousers/57/survivors.html#\n\n\nAccording to the BBC around 705 people survived the Titanic. That could mean that thousands of people today are related to a Titanic survivor. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1927996.stm\n\nThis story shows how some relatives of someone lost in the Titanic found only recently found out where their relative was finally laid to rest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4379580.stm\n\nBut surely the best general Titanic resource online is the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic