Some prices on the
Titanic:
It cost
50¢ for a game of squash
It cost
one dollar for a Turkish bath.
People
paid $3.12 to send a wireless
It cost
$7,500,000 to construct the Titanic
Salaries of Titanic's
Crew:
Seaman
Edward Buley: £5 a month
Look-out
G.A. Hogg: £5 and 5 shillings a month
Captain
E.J. Smith: £105 a month
Captain
Rostron Carpathia: £53 per month
Radio
Operator Harold Bride: £48 per month
Steward
Sidney Daniels: £3 and 15 shillings a month
Stewardess
Annie Robinson: £3 and 10 shillings a month
The oldest
passener on the Titanic was 74-year-old Johan Svensson of
Sweden, a third
class passenger traveling
from Sweden to live in
Effington Rut, South
Dakota. He did
not survive when the ship sank.
The youngest
passenger: 2-month-old Gladys (Milvina) Dean, who is
also the youngest
living survivor
today.
.
A list
of the cargo
which was loaded onto
Titanic before her voyage.
There
were 3,364 bags of mail on board and between 700 and 800
parcels.
One Renault
35 hp automobile owned by passenger William Carter.
One Marmalade
Machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
Oil painting
by Blondel, "La Circasienne Au Bain" owned by Hokan
Björnström-Steffanson.
Seven
parcels of parchment of the Torah owned by Hersh L. Siebald.
Three
crates of ancient models for the Denver Museum.
50 Cases
of toothpaste for Park & Tilford
11 bales
of rubber for the National City Bank of New York
Eight
dozen tennis balls which were to go to R.F. Downey & Co.
A cask
of china headed for Tiffany's was in the cargo hold.
Five Grand
Pianos were on board.
Thirty
cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for A.G. Spalding.
A jewelled
copy of The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, with
illustrations by Eliku
Vedder sold
for £405
at auction in March of 1912 to an American bidder. The
binding took
two years to execute, and the decoration embodied
no fewer than
1,500 precious stones, each separately set in
gold.
Four cases
of opium
