
Laid
down:
March 31, 1909
Launched:
May 31, 1911
Maiden
Voyage: April 10, 1912
Length
(overall) 882 ft 9 in
Beam:
92 ft. 6 in

Moulded
depth: 59 ft 6 in
Tonnage
gross: 46,329

Tonnage
net: 21,831

Decks:
7

Engines:
2 triple expansion and 1 turbine

Total
horsepower: 46,000

Service
speed: 21 knots

Top
speed:
23-24 knots (est.)

Passengers-First
Class: 735

Passengers-Second
Class: 674

Passengers-Third
Class: 1,026

Officers
and Crew: 892-two for every 3 passengers
Number
of windows on the Titanic: 1116 portholes and 419 windows in the
various
deck
houses
for a total
of 1535.

The
Titanic
needed 650 tons of coal a day for her 159 furnaces.

The
Titanic's
anchor chains were huge. Each link weighed 175 pounds.

Cost to
build the Titanic in 1912: $7,500,000

Cost to
build the Titanic today: $400,000,000

The
R.M.S.
in R.M.S. Titanic stands for "Royal Mail Steamship", on the the Titanic
was a
post
office for
handling mail and the Titanic carried large
amounts
of mail
Cost of a
one way ticket
on Titanic

First
Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350 ($50,000 today)

First
Class (berth) £30/$150 ($1724 today)

Second
Class £12/$60 ($690 today)

Third
Class £3 to £8/$40 ($172 to $460 today)
Facilities
for
passengers on the Titanic:
2 Parlor
Suites each with a 50 foot private promenade and 67 other
First Class
Staterooms & Suites.

Decorating
designs included: Louis Seize, Empire, Adams, ItalianRenaissance,
Louis
Quinze, Louis
Quatorze,
Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern
Dutch
and Old Dutch.
Some had marble coal
burning fireplaces.
Gymnasium
with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric
horse.

A heated
swimming pool (the first ever built into a vessel).

Squash
court on F deck.
Turkish
bath.

2 Barber
shops with automated shampooing and drying appliances available for
all
classes.

First
& Second class smoking rooms (for the men). Reading and writing
rooms (for the
ladies).
First
& Second class libraries.

10,488
square foot First Class Dining Saloon. Seating capacity 554.

Authentic
Parisien Café with French waiters.

A Veranda
Cafe with real palm trees.

A piano
in the Third Class common room/saloon (a luxury for its day).

Electric
light and heat in every stateroom.

4
electric
elevators complete with operators. (3 in first class, 1 in second class)
A state
of the art infirmary staffed by 2 physicians that included an operating
room.

A fully
equipped darkroom for amateur photographers to try their skills.

A 5
kilowatt
Marconi wireless radio station for sending and receiving passenger's
telegrams.

A 50
phone
switchboard complete with operator for intra-ship calls.

The
Titanic's
last distress, sent in Intercontinental Morse Cose, was: CQD CQD SOS
SOS CQD
DE
MGY MGY "CQD" was the
common
international
distress signal in use at the time. "SOS"
was a
newer
distress signal.
"DE" is the international code meaning
"from",
adopted from the French
preposition of the same meaning.
"MGY"
was
the Titanic's call
signal. The signal was keyed by
John G.
Phillips,
the Titanic's chief
Marconi operator, using a spark transmitter.