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Capacity: 3,547 passengers and crew
*People Onboard: 2,223 passengers and crew
Length: 882.9 feet
Width: 92.5 feet
Height: from keel to funnels-175 feet
Weight: 46,328 (gross) tons
Decks: 10(Boat, A,B,C,D,E,F,G,Lower,Orlop, Tank Top)
Lifeboats:20
Types: 14 regular, 4 Engelhardt collapsables, 2 emergency
Capacity: 1,178
*Saved: 705
*Lost: 1,518
*These figures are approximate.
Passengers: 329 First Class, 285 Second Class, 710 Third Class
Crew: 899
Titanic had 29 boilers that were 15 feet high. Each weighed almost 100 tons.
She required 825 tons of coal per day.
Engines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct-acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp, 77 rpm. Low pressure
Parsons turbine: 16,000hp, 165rpm
The rudder weighed 20,250 lbs.
The yard number assigned to the Titanic by Harland and Wolff was 401.
Her official Board of Trade number was 131,428.
Each funnel was large enough to drive two trains through.
There were four funnels, although the fourth was a dummy. It was used for looks and for ventilation.
Titanic had 3 propellers. The middle one was 16 feet across and the two side ones were 23 feet across,
One of the anchors of the Titanic had a mass of 15.5 tons. They needed 20 horses to pull the anchor.
The Titanic actually carried more lifeboats than were required by law at the time, although there were not enough to hold the all the people aboard the ship.
she had 3 anchors, which weighed a total of 31 tons.
Each chain link weighed about 175 lbs.
The Titanic had a gym and a swimming pool which were both very new to ocean liners.
There were 15 watertight bulkheads that went up to E Deck.
Titanic's top speed was 23 knots.
Titanic's cruising speed was 21 knots.
The Titanic cost 7.5 million US dollars to build.
The Cafe Parisian was made to emulate a Parisian sidewalk cafe.
There were 3 elevators in first class and 1 in second class
The Titanic ahd one Renault automobile on board.
She consume 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day.
The people that reserved the suite B51(one of the best suites), which had 3 rooms and its own promanade, paid almost $4,350 dollars(in 1912) for it.
The Titanic had a great triple-toned whistle-the largest ever built.
She had 66,000 tons of displacement.
During Titanic's construction, an astonishing 3 million rivets had been hammered into her hull.
More than 15,000 people built the Titanic and the Olympic. The largest moving objects that had been constructed at the time.
The wealthiest passenger aboard was Colonel John Jacob Astor, with a fortune estimated at around 100 million dollars. He had just remarried an 18 year old. He died in the sinking.
JP Morgan, the ship's owner, cancelled his trip.
The Titanic was actually an American ship, not a British ship.
Fresh Meat - 75,000 lbs
Fresh Fish - 11,000 lbs
Salt & Dried Fish - 4,000 lbs
Bacon & Ham - 7,500 lbs
Poultry & Game - 25,000 lbs
Fresh Eggs - 40,000 lbs
Sausages - 2,500 lbs
Potatoes - 40 tons
Onions - 3,500 lbs
Tomatoes - 3,500 lbs
Fresh Asparagus - 800 bundles
Fresh Green Peas - 2,500 lbs
Lettuce - 7,000 heads
Sweetbreads - 1,000
Ice Cream - 1,750 lbs
Coffee - 2,200 lbs
Tea - 800 lbs
Rice & Dried Beans - 10,000 lbs
Sugar - 10,000 lbs
flour - 250 barrels
Cereals - 10,000 lbs.
Apples - 36,000
Oranges - 36,000
Lemons - 16,000
Grapes - 1,000 lbs
Grapefruit - 13,000
Jams and Marmalades - 1,120 lbs
Fresh Milk - 1,500 gallons
Fresh Cream - 1,200 quarts
Condensed Milk - 600 gallons
Fresh Butter - 6,000 lbs
Ales and Stout - 15,000 bottles
Wines - 1,000 bottles
Spirits - 850 bottles
Minerals - 1,200 bottles
Cigars - 8,000
57,600 items of crockery
29,000 pieces of glassware
44,000 pieces of cutlery
12,000 dinner plates
2,500 breakfast plates
2,000 dessert plates
5,500 icecream plates
4,500 soup plates
1,500 coffee saucers
3,000 tea saucers
4,500 breakfast saucers
1,000 finger bowls
500 salad bowls
45,000 table napkins
40,000 towels
4,500 breakfast cups
3,000 beef tea cups
3,000 tea cups
1,500 coffee cups
1,000 cream jugs
1,000 champagne glasses
2,000 wine glasses
1,500 cocktail glasses
1,200 liquer glasses
300 celery glasses
1,200 pie dishes
1,200 pudding dishes
400 fruit dishes
400 butter dishes
400 entree dishes
1,500 crystal dishes
400 meat dishes
400 vegatables dishes
1,500 souffle dishes
3,000 beef tea dishes
8,000 cut glass tumblers
1,200 teapots
2,000 salt shakers
500 flower vases
1,000 oyster forks
8,000 dinner forks
1,500 fish forks
1,500 fruit forks
400 butter knives
1,500 fruit knives
8,000 dessert knives
1,500 fish knives
3,000 dessert spoons
6,000 teaspoons
1,500 mustard spoons
1,500 salt spoons
2,000 egg spoons
300 nut crackers
100 grape scissors
400 asparagus tongs
400 sugar tongs
400 toast racks
400 sugar basins
300 calret jugs
1,200 coffee pots
2,500 water bottles
6,000 table cloths
4,000 aprons
3,600 bed covers
800 eiderdown quilts
15,000 single sheets
3,000 double sheets
7,500 blankets
15,000 pillow slips
7,500 bath towels
25,000 fine towels
3,500 roller towels
Cost to build Titanic:
Then: 7,500,000
Now: 400,000,000
Cost for one way-tickets:
First Class(Parlor suite): $4,350 dollars/$50,000 today
First Class(Berth): $150 dollars/$1724 today
Second Class: $60 dollars/$690 today
Third Class: $40 dollars/$172 to $460 today
Cost for a Turkish or Electric Bath: $1.00/$5.00 today
Cost to send a Marconi Wirlesss Telegram: 12 shillings and sixpence/$3.12/$36.00 today for the ten words, and 9 pence per word thereafter. Passenger telegrams sent and recieved during the voyage: over 250.
