Odd factoids

[Rickshaw Phil]

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The Titanic was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool.

My information is that the White Star liner Adriatic (1907) was the first.

 

[Dirk]

The Titanic was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool.

I bet that went down well......

 

[Tim Hall]

So this bloke goes to the tailor for a suit fitting. The jacket is fine, then the tailor asked about the trousers.
"I like the cloth" says the bloke "but they're like the Titanic"
"What does sir mean?" asks the tailor
"No ball room"

 

[Profpointy]

The first swimming club was the Maidstone Swimming Club, established in Kent, England in response to people drowning in the River Medway.

The Titanic was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool.

Apparently when they found the wreck of the Titanic, the swmming pool was still full of water

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Apparently when they found the wreck of the Titanic, the swmming pool was still full of water

Ah, they don't build them like that nowadays.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Since RMS Olympic has had a mention, one you might like: At the time of the Titanic sinking, Olympic was commanded by Captain H J Haddock.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Call my Bluff is based on a game played out in police stations by serial criminals it was Call my Lawyer

Call My Brief, shirley?

 

[Dirk]

When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, more than 1,500 people perished.
In a spooky coincidence, the disaster reflected a story told in Morgan
Robertson’s novella 'Futility, which was published in 1898.
Eerily, the ship in the book was named Titan, just two letters different to
the iconic sunken ship.
In Futility, the boat hit an iceberg on the starboard side of the ship on an
April night… exactly the same time and trigger that caused the Titanic to
sink.
Similarities get even weirder as the fictional boat collapsed 400 nautical
miles away from Newfoundland, the SAME location that the Titanic was
wrecked.
Both boats had a shortage of lifeboats and couldn’t provide safety for over
half the passengers and crewmembers.
After the real-life Titanic disaster occurred 14 years after Robertson’s
publication, people instantly made the connection.
The author was accused of clairvoyance, but he claimed that his story was
purely based on his knowledge of maritime practices and shipbuilding.
Even though Robertson’s startling story warned of the future tragedy, he said
that the similarities were purely coincidence.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A couple of months before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his son fell between the train and the platform at Jersey city. A man came to his rescue, and pulled him back into the platform. That man was called Edwin Booth who was the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

 

[Dave7]

I once had tea and biscuits in the board room at Cadburys in Bournville.

Never went there..............I worked in the Moreton factory. A great company to work for at the time.

 

[Threevok]

The popular children's board game "Operation" was derived from a Bomb Squad training tool

 

[Dave7]

Wow! Hanging round on Cyclechat puts me in the presence of Gods!

I wouldn't go that far.
Oh...........all right then........yes I would.

 

[Dave7]

No it wasn't. The RMS Adriatic was. Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic (which was launched first) also had a swimming pool.

EDIT: TMN to @Rickshaw Phil

Captain Smith of Titanic fame lived in Warrington and got married at Winwick church near where I live. There is a copy of his marriage certificate there as the original got stolen.
Strangely enough, after Titanic sank, he ceased to live in Warrington.

 

[Dave7]

The engineer on the Eiffel Tower was Gustave Eiffel.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Violet Jessop was on board the RMS Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke in 1911. She was on board the RMS Titanic when it collided with an iceberg in 1912. She was on board the third of the three sister ships HMHS Brittanic when it sank in 1916.