Feeding the passengers and crew on the Titanic required an extraordinary amount of food and drinks. There were 75,000 pounds of fresh meat, 40,000 eggs, 10,000 pounds of sugar, and 7,000 heads of lettuce.
The ship left with around 56,700 of dishware aboard. When the Titanic was rediscovered on the seabed, neat rows of stacked plates and dishes were found lying unbroken and almost undisturbed in the sand on the ocean floor.
Titanic's hold was also loaded with a vast array of bizarre cargo, such as a Renault 35hp automobile, 3 crates of ancient models for a museum, 50 cases of toothpaste, 5 baby grand pianos, 76 cases of "Dragon's Blood" (a kind of tree sap), and 15 crates of rabbit hair.
There was also rumors about a cursed Egyptian mummy among the cargo which brought about the disaster. The tale is untrue- there was no mummy on the ship.
Margret "Molly" Brown came from a poor family in America, but her husband made a great deal of money in the mining industry in Colorado. In a lifeboat, Quartermaster Robert Hichens refused Margaret's plea to look for survivors. She urged other women to take the oars and row, and Hichens gave in. She became known as "the unsinkable Molly Brown."
Milton Hershey, inventor of Hershey's chocolate bar, was supposed to be aboard, but was too busy to leave home.
With to forward part of the ship flooded, the Titanic's nose was pulled under the water, submerging the bridge and officers' quarters. The weight of the water inside the ship pulled the vessel still deeper, leaving the stern sticking high out of the water. The huge weight of the sinking caused the ship to break in two. The ship's bow sank quickly into the bottom, followed by a mass of debris.
Crew members rowed the lifeboats away from where the Titanic had gone down in the hope of reaching the safety of passing ship. As one of the lifeboats reached the Carpathia, passengers prepared to climb up the ladders to the deck. Many discovered that other family members had not reached the safety of the ship. Radio operator Harold Bride had to be helped from Carpathia because his feet were badly frostbitten.
Divers have recovered thousands of items from the Titanic such as a signal telegraph from the bridge, a china coffee cup, silver knives and forks from the first-class dining room, and even a reclining char from the promenade deck.
After the disaster, an international service was set up to watch for icebergs and set out warnings to shipping. To begin with. the patrol was operated by vessels that sailed along the main shipping routes, radioing in when they spotted ice.
