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.
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A list of supplies which were loaded onto the
Titanic before her voyage.
Fresh
Meat: 75,000 lbs.
Fresh
Fish: 11,000 lbs.
Bacon
and Ham: 7,500 lbs.
Fresh
Eggs: 40,000
Ice Cream:
1,750 qts.
Coffee:
2,200 lbs.
Tea: 800
lbs.
Flour:
200 barrels.
Oranges:
36,000
Lemons:
16,000
Fresh
Milk: 1,500 gallons
Butter:
6,000 lbs.
Tomatoes:
2¾ tons
Potatoes:
40 tons
Beer and
Stout: 20,000 bottles
Wines:
1,500 bottles
Spirits:
850 bottles
Tea Cups:
3,000
Dinner
Plates: 12,000
Ice Cream
Plates: 5,500
Soufflé
Dishes: 1,500
Wine Glasses:
2,000
Salt Shakers:
2,000
Pudding
Dishes: 1,200
Finger
Bowls: 1,000
Oyster
Forks: 1,000
Nut Crackers:
300
Egg Spoons:
2,000
Grape
Scissors: 1,500
Asparagus
Tongs: 400
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A list of the linens loaded onto Titanic before
her voyage.
Aprons:
4,000
Blankets:
7,500
Table
Cloths: 6,000
Bed Covers:
3,600
Eiderdown
Quilts: 800
Single
Sheets: 15,000
Table
Napkins: 45,000
Bath Towels:
7,500
Fine Towels:
25,000
Roller
Towels: 3,500
Double
Sheets: 3,000
Pillow-slips:
15,000
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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 |
