The Titanic: A Ticket to Disaster
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This week, Jamie and Leo dig into the construction of the Titanic, the staggering gap between how her passengers lived on board, and the night everything went wrong.
In 1912, the most luxurious ship ever built sank on its maiden voyage, taking more than 1,500 people down with it. A third-class ticket cost the equivalent of roughly $1,000 today. The best suite cost over $130,000. When the ship went down, both classes went down together.
Some more than others...
From the band that kept playing as the ship sank to the couple who refused to be separated even as the lifeboats loaded, this is the story behind the most famous disaster in maritime history.
Grab a life jacket and run for the lifeboats because this episode of The Darkives, it's going down.
Serious history. Told not so seriously.
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Sources:
- https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/titanic-ticket-prices/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Titanic
- https://mollybrown.org/building-the-titanic/
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- Diehl, Digby. Front Page: 100 Years of the Los Angeles Times. H.N. Abrams, 1981.
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