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, Italian
Renaissance, 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.
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