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In April 1912, a shocking event occurred in the Atlantic Ocean, a luxury giant ship named Titanic unfortunately hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea. This incident was later remade into a movie and released around the world.
The Titanic was a British ship, and that day was its first voyage, and the route of the day was from the United Kingdom to the United States.
It was the most luxurious passenger ship of the year and the largest passenger to date, so the voyage attracted wide attention from people from all walks of life, and many of the people on board the ship were dignitaries.
The Titanic was just completed on April 2 of that year, and its first voyage began on April 12, but it had an accident on the 14th and 15th.
In this accident, the Titanic was cut in half, and finally sank into the depths of the Atlantic, and was salvaged many years later, the Titanic carried more than 2,200 passengers and crew members during this voyage, of which more than 1,500 people were killed in the accident, and only 300 of these victims were recovered.
However, eight lucky people escaped the disaster during this voyage, although they bought tickets for the Titanic, but in the end they did not set foot on the Titanic for various reasons.
Who are these lucky winners? Why didn't they get on the boat before they sailed? Let's take a look at the stories of these lucky ones today.
Titanic ferry tickets
The Titanic gained the attention of the people of the world by using its gimmick when it was built, so when the official decision was made to make its first voyage on April 12, its tickets were already fully booked.
After all, the volume of the Titanic was not comparable to that of a ship at that time, and his interior decoration was very luxurious, these gimmicks were enough to attract consumers, and the ship's displacement alone was as high as 50,000 tons, which had already caught the attention of the industry and countries at that time.
Tickets were hard to find on the day they went on sale, and you must know that the ticket price of the Titanic is not cheap now. At that time, the Titanic had three positions, first class, second class and first class.
The ticket price for a third-class seat alone is 7.5 pounds, which is equivalent to more than 5,000 yuan, and the most expensive ticket price for the whole ship is as high as hundreds of thousands of yuan.
The tickets were sold out on the same day, and the ticket staff at that time were in a hurry, and there were even several cases of wrong tickets.
It can be seen from this ticket price that the people who could afford tickets for the Titanic at that time were not ordinary people, and many of the world's richest people were vying to experience the service of this ship at that time.
This voyage can also be said to be the Titanic serving a group of the world's richest people, but they are facing such a tragic fate.
Before boarding, comparisons were made of all the passengers, and among them, John Jacob Astor was the richest of all the passengers at that time.
This man was an American industrialist, and his family was the richest man in the United States at the time, and he made a fortune selling real estate and furs in the early days, but he did not escape the disaster and lost his life after the shipwreck.
His wife was rescued by rescue teams, but he had no business skills and was unable to save their family from extinction.
Eight surviving billionaires
Eight lucky people escaped disaster on this voyage, starting with the famous Hersheys, whose names you may not have heard of, but you must know their company, the founders of Hershey's Chocolate.
Later, in the José family archives, you can see a check for $300 paid for the ferry ticket.
The Hersheys bought the first class cabin of the Titanic at that time, and the $300 they paid was only a deposit for this ticket, and they originally planned to take the Titanic back home.
However, because there were important matters to be dealt with at home, they changed to another ship before the ship could return to the United States, so they were lucky to avoid the shipwreck.
Theodore Dreiser, a famous American novelist, also bought a ticket for the Titanic, when he was on his own trip around Europe, and the Titanic's route was the last leg of his route.
So he quickly got a ticket through his connections, but because the ticketing work was very busy that day, he only got an ordinary ship ticket and not the Titanic.
Later, he didn't have a chance to get another ticket through various channels, so he gave up taking the ship and escaped the catastrophe.
Wall Street financial magnate Morgan is one of the people in power behind the Titanic, and he naturally can't miss the debut of this steamer, so he booked a room for himself on the ship early.
But then he changed his mind and wanted to stay in France for a vacation, and after the accident, he was scared into a cold sweat and glad that he didn't get on the boat.
Henry Clay Frick is also one of the lucky winners, he runs a steel company, he and his wife bought two tickets to the Titanic that day, and later because his wife accidentally sprained herself during the exercise, they canceled the trip back to the United States, and instead changed the destination to Italy for medical treatment.
Also not on board at that time was a great figure in the scientific world, Galilmo Makeni, the father of radio communications.
He grew up in a very well-to-do family, and his studies were very successful, so in college, he embarked on the path of scientific research and also completed a 2-kilometer wireless communication experiment, and won the Nobel Prize.
Marconi didn't get on board because he had a problem with his dissertation work, and he had to rush to the lab to write his dissertation, and he was lucky enough to escape by taking a route three days early.
It was also because of Makeni's invention of radio communication technology that more than 700 people on board were rescued.
The Vanderbilt family has been running the transportation industry in the United States for generations, and he is very good friends with the Morgan we mentioned on the trip, and the two of them were originally discussing getting on the ship together, and Vanderbil, as an important partner of the British White Star Company, not only did not need to spend money to buy ferry tickets, but the White Star Company also equipped him with a luxury suite.
In the end, however, he did not get on board because he had to attend a very important business banquet.
The last lucky winner was John Rayleigh Matt, a famous American missionary, who had also made an appointment with a friend to take the Titanic, but finally chose a cheaper cruise ship because of the high fare. When they arrived in New York, they heard the bad news of the Titanic and congratulated themselves on their choice at that time.
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