Esther Hart, her husband, and their daughter Eva were traveling on the Titanic when Esther and Eva wrote a letter to Esther’s mother to let her know of the good time they were having at sea.

Esther and Eva were among the survivors and kept the letter until it was sold in an auction in 2014 for around $200,000.

On the fateful morning of April 15, a lifeboat drill was supposed to take place. However, for unknown reasons, it was canceled and, when the ship crashed with the iceberg, the staff and passengers panicked and confusion prevailed.

This might have been avoided if the drill had taken place as scheduled, but we’ll never know.

Along with the human passengers aboard the Titanic, there were some furry passengers, too. Twelve dogs traveled on the ship, but only three of them made it to the lifeboats and managed to survive.

Their owners decided to take them on the lifeboats with them.

As everyone who has seen the Titanic-related films knows, the conditions in which third-class passengers traveled were not great. And, while bedding was provided for everyone, there was a shortage of bathtubs.

In fact, there were only two of them intended for more than 700 3rd-class passengers.

Unlikely as it may sound, it was true. The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed on a daily basis onboard the ship, and it featured the latest news, gossip, and stock prices.

Everyone knows that the Carpathia was the rescue ship that arrived two hours after the Titanic sank and brought more than 700 survivors aboard.

However, there was another ship even closer to them which would have arrived for help sooner.

The Californian got stuck in an icefield itself and it is said that they had warned other ships. Officers on the Californian saw the Titanic’s signals but ignored them as “friendly signals.”

While the Titanic shipwreck caused hundreds of deaths, there were rumors that several more had occurred even before the ship set sail.

For example, 15-year-old Samuel Scott fell from a ladder and died, builder James Dobbins died during the transport of the ship to a dock, while more fatal accidents are believed to have happened prior to the trip.

While there is still debate about whether there are still human remains on the Titanic wreckage under the sea, only 340 of them have been recovered since it sank.

This means that more than 1,100 bodies have been lost at sea, probably forever.

Some, like Isidor and Ida Straus, refused to board lifeboats so the younger passengers could be saved.

While being a merchant ship, the Titanic allegedly carried 3,500 bags of mail.

Obviously, all of the 7 million pieces the bags contained were lost at sea, going down with the boat.

Much like today’s luxury ocean liners, the Titanic featured a swimming pool with heated saltwater on deck.

Of course, only first-class passengers were allowed there, and men and women would swim separately.

It is also said that there was a charge to use it.

Edward John Smith, an experienced naval officer who had been working for the White Star Line for more than three decades, was the captain of the Titanic.

It is said that he had decided to retire after completing the ship’s maiden voyage, while others argue that he would remain the boat’s captain until the company completed “a larger steamer.”

Of the 885 crew members aboard the Titanic, only 23 of them were women.

The vast majority were stewardesses, who were assigned similar tasks as men, although they mainly served women.

The inside of the ship was modeled on the Ritz Hotel in London. The idea was that passengers – especially those traveling first class – would forget that they were on a boat altogether.

This was probably accurate since there were so many posh extras for those passengers, like Turkish baths, a squash court, and a steam room.

Then nine-week-old baby Millvina Dean was the youngest survivor to be brought aboard the Carpathia.

While her father sadly died during the tragedy, her mother and older brother survived and returned to England aboard RMS Adriatic.

Dean died at the age of 97.

Aboard the fateful boat were 13 honeymooning couples. Some made it out of the shipwreck alive, like Mr. & Mrs. George Harder of New York.

There is even a book dedicated to the love stories of those couples.

According to the menu cards that have been retrieved from the shipwreck, third-class passengers – 75% of whom perished – had biscuits and cheese during their last supper, while for second- and third-class passengers there was a variety of options to choose from.

It doesn’t come as a surprise that a first-class menu was sold in an auction for £100,000 ($131,097).

Charles Joughin, the baker of the ship, was the last survivor that left the RMS Titanic.

Although he had been assigned as captain of Lifeboat 10, he never boarded it because there wasn’t enough room.

After having “a drop of liqueur” and doing some acrobatics, he swam away into the night, until he reached Lifeboat B at daybreak.

Whoever has seen a photo of the Titanic – or the movie for that matter – must have noticed there were four funnels.

However, only three of them actually worked; one was just for ventilation.

Newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Belfast Telegraph, and The World reported the day after the accident that “no lives were lost” due to lack of communicable technology at the time.

The next day, headlines were completely different. For instance, The New York Times headline read: “Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued by Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish; Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing.”

Although there were binoculars, they were locked in a box whose key the crew could not find.

It appears that the owner of the key was removed from the crew before launch and didn’t hand the key to his replacement.

If the lookout had had access to them, he might have seen the iceberg sooner, thus avoiding the crash.