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The musicians of the Titanic were an octet orchestra who performed chamber music in the first class section aboard the ship. The group is notable for playing music, intending to calm the passengers for as long as they possibly could, during the ship's sinking in the early hours of April 15, 1912 in which all of the members perished.
Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 – 15 April 1912) was an English violinist and bandleader on the Titanic during its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight-member band as the ship sank on 15 April 1912. He and the rest of the band did not survive the sinking.
Five days later, on 15 April 1912, the ship hit an iceberg and he and the other musicians famously continued to play as the Titanic sank. Their final tune was, according to some survivor accounts, "Nearer, My God, To Thee". All members of the band, including his friend Jock Hume, drowned, and the body of Wesley Woodward was never recovered.
When Titanic sank, claims were made that a curse existed on the ship. The press quickly linked "the Titanic curse" with the White Star Line practice of not christening their ships. [2] One of the most widely spread legends linked directly into the sectarianism of the city of Belfast, where the ship was built.
The public's fascination with the Titanic spans generations — and there's no question as to why. The $7.5 million (over $200 million today) luxury ocean liner was a representation of grandeur ...
Stead was later a First Class passenger on the RMS Titanic, a British ocean liner which collided with an iceberg at the time of her maiden voyage on 14 April 1912, and he was one of approximately 1,500 people who perished in the disaster. Many people believe that this story foreshadows the Titanic tragedy based on its plot and the themes present.
Kate Winslet has revealed Leonardo DiCaprio "was kneeling down" in quite shallow water while filming that infamous Titanic door scene "To burst the bubble, ...
Titanic director James Cameron told ABC News he is “struck” by the similarities between the Titanic disaster and the Titan disaster, and warned people not to take deep submersion diving lightly.