Titanic Exhibition

I was able to convince my friends to come with me to an exhibition of Titanic treasures. It was free and we even got a free piture in front of the Grand Staircase with the captain. It was small but really cool to see and to learn facts that you didn't know or realize.
At the beginning, they gave us boarding passes of a person that was actually on the ship. The below pictures are of my pass.


At the end, there was a board that had every passengers name and it was divided into class and those that died. You then looked for your passengers name to see if you lived or died. Maria was first class (survivied), Jake was second class (died) and I was third (died). Suprising enough, more people were saved from third and crew than second class. Then of course, first class had the most.

Some fun facts that we learned:
Titanic didn't really want to have a third class but since they wanted to be an overall boat, they added it and it was the nicest third class of any boat in those days.

It was only a minute from the time the iceberg was sighted and they hit it.

First class ticket was worth about $40-90,000 today. They had sitting rooms, sleep rooms, smoke rooms and others included in the price. Extra was the steam rooms, the gym, and other fancy amenities.

The captain of the Titanic was going to retire after he returned from the voyage.

Of the 1,324 passengers, only 492 survived.

Of the 892 crew members, only 214 survived.

Lifeboats provided on the Ship were adequate according to the British Board of Trade rules set at the times; the rules had not been updated to include ships of Titanic's size.