Top 10 Misconceptions About the Titanic

Out of 700 third-class passengers, around 180 were saved. Yes, there were gates, but not for that purpose. The third-class passengers were largely immigrants. According to the immigration laws of 1912, immigrants had to be kept separate to prevent the spread of any kind of disease.

The people were not locked below deck. Tall Bostwick gates were used (like in the movie) because class sections were interchangeable. They had easy access to open decks. Eyewitnesses reported a large number of these passengers making their way to these decks. However, there were only a few signs to direct the passengers. Each third-class passenger had their own deck and boats, and the gates were opened as soon as the crew was ordered to lower the boats.

There was no maneuver to keep them away.

Murdoch actually helped evacuate the passengers and launched 10 lifeboats as the ship was sinking. In 1998, the Vice President of 20th Century Fox, Scott Neeson, visited Murdoch's 80-year-old nephew, Samuel Scott Murdoch, in Dumfries, Scotland, to personally apologize to him.

A check for £5,000 was handed over as compensation for the distress felt, and the money was used to fund new computers and a memorial board at Dalbeattie High School. Two Murdoch Memorial Trust Prizes were also funded. However, no real apology was made for the depiction in the movie.

Historians and friends of Murdoch were unsatisfied, as an apology was required. James Cameron later said he realized that it was a mistake to portray him in such a manner.

The movie shows him staring at a painting of Plymouth Harbor, waiting to die, but this wasn't actually true. He was tossing deck chairs overboard to provide something for the still-trapped people to cling to in the icy water.

A man saw him and Captain Smith together. The captain told him that they couldn't stay there any longer, and they dived into the water together. Andrews spent his last minutes saving lives.

The Titanic also wasn't the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster. That title goes to the MV Doña Paz, a Filipino passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector, causing a fire that engulfed and sank both ships. 4,386 people died, and only 24 survived.

The worst one was the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a German transport ship sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945. It resulted in the loss of 9,343 lives compared with 1,503 people on the Titanic.

It wasn't, but the Titanic is the most famous one.

During the time when William Stead wrote and told about the Mummy being carried to London from Egypt and being responsible for destruction everywhere it went, it was actually being displayed in the British Museum.

He did get on a lifeboat, but he didn't disguise himself as a woman or jump ahead of women and children. In fact, he was seen on the deck helping women and children to evacuate. He was reluctant to go in any of the boats.

Also, how would anyone believe he was a woman if he had a mustache? Only men grow facial hair.

They actually played folk and dance songs as the ship sank.

I actually never knew this was a misconception.

Murdoch was actually third in command. The second in command was Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde (pictured). Murdoch was originally going to be the chief officer but was temporarily demoted to first officer when Wilde joined the crew for the one voyage.