Of
the 2,224 Passengers and Crew on-board 1,503 died (only 333 bodies were ever
recovered.)
There
were: 12 dogs, four hens, four roosters, 30 cockerels, one yellow canary and
the ship’s rat-catcher cat Jenny were on board when the ship sank.
Only
3 dogs survived (carried by their Owners on the lifeboats.)
The
8 Musicians of the Titanic continued to play even while the ship was sinking so
that the passengers would remain as calm as possible. Their last tune was
“Nearer, My God, to Thee.” None of them survived.
After
the sinking the US Government passed the Radio Act of 1912 which required all
ships to have 24 hour access to communications and a secondary power supply to
send and receive distress signals.
In
1914, an International Convention required that there be enough life boats for
every single passenger and crew on-board as well as mandatory lifeboat drills
during every sailing.
Also
in 1914, an International Ice Patrol was established in the Atlantic and Arctic
Oceans. Today, it is run by the US Coast Guard and funded by the Governments
of: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan,
the Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and
the United States.
It remains the deadliest peacetime sinking of
a cruise ship or an ocean liner. The wreck was discovered by Robert Ballard in
1985.
The
last living Titanic Survivor, Millvina Dean, who was 2 months old when the ship
sank, died in 2009.
The
first movie about the sinking was called “Saved From The Titanic” in 1912. It
was a Silent Movie that premiered 31 days after the sinking and stared Dorothy
Gibson who survived the sinking.
The
1997 film “Titanic” was the most expensive film ever made up to that date with
a budget of $200 Million Dollars. Today it ranks 45th most expensive film ever
made. It earned $2.202 Billion Dollars worldwide. It remained the highest
grossing film until 2010.
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