The most luxurious accommodations on the Titanic, the promenade suites, cost the equivalent of $83,000 today.ĥ. At least two dogs survived the sinking, a French bulldog named “Gamin de Pycombe” and a Pekingese named “Sun Yat Sen.” Although there was some outrage over this when so many people died, the dogs were held in their owners’ laps, so no human being lost any lifeboat space to a pet.Ĥ. Probably the Californian sailors saw that ship sailing on, which led them to ignore the signal rockets as routine.ģ. Only years later was it learned that a Norwegian whaling vessel had in fact been traveling, silently and illegally, in those waters that night. Captain Lord of the Californian always protested that they saw the ship they thought the rockets were coming from, but it was obviously in no trouble. There’s always been a controversy about whether the nearby ship Californian should have come to Titanic’s rescue although they saw signal rockets, they never turned on their radio and thus didn’t hear distress calls. A few years before the disaster, Captain Smith had given an interview to a magazine in which he said, “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder … Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.”Ģ. Please give a warm welcome to Claudia Gray!Ĭlaudia Gray’s 10 Interesting Facts About The Titanicġ.

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth and final week of our stint on the official Dark Days Blog Tour, a celebration of the upcoming fall lineup of paranormal and supernatural YA titles from Pitch Dark Books at Harper Teen! We have the great honor of hosting Dark Days author Claudia Gray for four weeks, as she shares with us some of her favorite films, books, and influences for her her new novel Fateful.

Fateful by Claudia Gray