She had a French Cafe with French Chefs.
It had four Parole Suites, the most expensive cabins. Each was 50 feet in length. And two of them had their own promenade deck.
A few years before Titanic was built, a book was written called "The Titan", about a ship that was proclaimed "unsinkable" hit an iceberg and sank with only enough lifeboats for half onboard. The author went down with Titanic.
The first classers would go to the top of the grand staircase on A-deck, even if their staterooms were on C-deck, and go down them to go to dinner.
The Titanic was called: "The Unsinkable" "The Millionaires' Special", she was also called "The Wonder Ship, "The ship of Dreams", and "The Last World in Luxury".
The Titanic had three propellers; the middle one was 16 feet across, and the other two were over 23 feet across.
The boilers of the Titanic were over 15 feet high.
The fourth funnel was fake. The smoke came from the galleries.
There was 29 boilers; each weighing nearly like 100 tons.
The Titanic had a great triple-toned whistle. The largest ever build.
Workers loaded 5,892 tons of coal aboard the Titanic for her maiden voyage. She burned 690 tons per day.
Stokers were working day and night shoveling coal into the boilers that created the steam that drove the giant reciprocating engines.
The Titanic was about 882.9 feet long, and 92.5 feet broad.
The height from the keel, to the top of the funnels was 175 feet.
It had 9 decks, she was as high as an eleven-story building.
There were 4 elevators, 3 in first class and 1 in second class. This was the first boat to have an elevator for second class.
66,000 tons displacement.
The ship weighed 46,328 tons.
The hull weighed 26,000 tons.
The rudder weighed 20,250 lbs.
23 tons of soap, grease, and train oil were used to slide the Titanic into the water. The whole process took only sixty-two seconds for the Titanic to complete her journey down the ways.
The Titanic traveled twice her length, reaching the speed of 12 knots, before coming to a stop by six anchor chains and 2 piles of cable drag chains weighting 80 tons each.
The anchor of the Titanic had a mass of 15.5 tons. They needed 20 horses to pull the anchor.
Her 3 enormous anchors weighed a total of 31 tons.
Each chain link weighed about 175 lbs.
During its construction an astonishing 3 million rivets had been hammered into her hull.
It had four Parole Suites, the most expensive cabins. Each was 50 feet in length. And two of them had their own promenade deck.
For her maiden voyage, she carried enough food to feed a small town for several months.
More than 15'000 people build the Titanic and the Olympic. The largest moving objects that had been constructed that had been constructed at that time.
If placed upright, the Titanic would have being taller than any of the buildings of her day.
Her width was about equal to the hight of a tennis court.
The 4 funnels were so big that 2 trains could go inside.
On May 31, 1911, the hull of the Titanic was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, before a cheering crowd of 100,000.
The people that reserved the B51 (one of the best suites), which had 3 rooms and its own promenade, paid almost $4,350 (in 1912) for it.
The 325 richest people of the world were in the first class.
JP Morgan, the ship's owner, cancelled his trip right before it left Southampton.
Cost of the Titanic (in 1912): $7,500,000. ($400,000,000 today)
The move Titanic made enough to build two Titanics.
The wealthiest passenger aboard was Colonel John Jacob Astor, with a fortune estimated at around 100 million dollars. He did not survive.
There were 2,223 people aboard; passengers and crew.
The Titanic was built to carry 3,547 passengers.
Titanic almost crashed into the liner "New York" in Southampton.
If Titanic had gone straight into the iceberg head on, it wouldn't have punctured 5 of their watertight rooms. (but in all fairness to the crew, if you see that your ship is about to crash into a huge iceberg, you're gonna turn!)
One lifeboat only had 12 people, and dispite the "women and children first" order, only two women (Lady Duff Gordon and her secretary) were in it. •
Titanic was never christened.
Titanic received 6 iceberg warnings that day but ingored them.
Even though "Nearer My God To Thee" is what is played in the movie, no one knows for sure what sone the band play in those final moments, some have even said that they didn't play at all!
The band played happy songs to cheer the passengers and continued playing until the sinking of Titanic.
The temperature of the water at night was approximately 30 degrees.
Titanic only had enough lifeboats for about half the people onboard, more than required by law.
Crew Salaries:
Captain E.J. Smith, Titanic: £105 a month
Captain Rostron, Carpathia: £53 a month
Seaman Edward Buley: £5 a month
Look-out G.A. Hogg: £5 and 5 shillings a month
Radio Operator Harold Bride: £4 and 8 shillings a month
Steward Sidney Daniels: £3 and 15 shillings a month
Stewardess Annie Robinson: £3 and 10 shillings a month
Costs of Tickets:
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)
This is a small list of what the Titanic Took on her maiden Voyage:
Fresh Meat 75,000 lbs
Fresh Fish 11,000 lbs
Salt & dried fish 4,000 lbs
Bacon and Ham 7,500 lbs
Poultry and game 25,000 lbs
Fresh Eggs 40,000
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 etc.10,000 lbs
Sugar 10,000lbs
Flour 250 barrels
Cereals 10,000 lbs
Apples 36,000
Oranges 36,000
Lemons 16,000
Grapes 1,000lbs
Grapefruit 13,000
Jams and Marmalade 1,120 lbs
Fresh Milk 1,500 gal
Fresh Cream 1,200 qts
Condensed Milk 600 gals
Fresh Butter 6,000lbs
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
Linens
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
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