“ Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your
French girls. Wearing this... Wearing
*only* this.”
Has anyone ever remember the 1997 blockbuster movie "TITANIC" ?
102 years back, on Monday, April 15th 1912, at approximately 2:20 am, Titanic's voyage came to an end at the bottom of the ocean, 153km south of Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada.
The Titanic at Belfast
It cost $7.5 million to build Titanic and it carried a $5 million insurance
policy. It would cost about $400 million to build Titanic today.
Cost of the ticket (one way)
1st Class (parlor suite) 870 / $4,350 ($50,000 today)
1st Class (berth) 30 / $150 ($1,724 today)
2nd Class 12 / $60 ($690 today)
3rd Class 3 to 8 / $40 ($172 to $460 today)
Passenger Facilities
2 Parlor Suites each with a 50 feet private premenade and 67 other 1st class Staterooms & Suites
Decorating designs included:
Louis Seize, Empire, Adams, Italian Renaissance, Louis Quinze, Louis Quatorze, Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern Dutch, Old Dutch. Some had marble coal burning fireplaces
Gymnasium with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric horse
A heated swimming pool (the 1st ever built into a vessel)
Squash court of F deck
Turkish bath
2 barber shops w/ automated shampooing & drying appliances available for all classes
1st and 2nd class smoking rooms (for the men)
Reading and writing rooms (for the ladies)
1st & 2nd class Libraries
10, 488 square foot First Class Dining Saloon (seating capacity 554)
Authentic Parisien Cafe with French Waiters
A Veranda Cafe w/ 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 w/ 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 w/ operator for intra-ship calls
RMS Titanic Specifications
Length: 882 feet | 8 inches / 268 meters
Gross Tonnage: 46, 328 tons
Net Tonnage: 24, 900 tons
Total Capacity: 3,547 passengers and crew (fully loaded)
Decks: 9 in total
Beam: 92.5 feet / 28 meters
Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck | 175 feet keel to top of funnels
Depth: 59.5 feet
Draft: about 34 feet
Engines: 2 reciproctating | 4 cylinder | triple expansion | direct-acting | inverted engines
Propellers: 3
Center turbine: 17 feet (Left/Right Wings: 23 feet 6 inches)
Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers & 5 single ended boilers)
Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144, 142 sq. feet
Steam Pressure: 215 P.S.I.
Watertight Compartments: 16 (extending up to F deck)
Lifeboat Davits: 14 double acting Welin's w/ Murrays disengaging gear
Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
Water consumption: 14, 000 gallons of fresh water per day
Top Speed: 23 knots
Lifeboats: 20 total as follows:
14 wood lifeboats - each 300" long by 91" by 40" deep w/ a capacity of 65 person each
2 wood cutters - 252" long by 72" by 30" deep w/ a capacity of 40 person each
4 Englehardt collapsible boats - 275" by 80" by 30" deep w/ a capacity of 47 person each
Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity is 1, 178 people
Personal Floatation devices: 3,560 life jackets and 49 life buoys
Of approximately 2, 227 passengers on board Titanic, how come only 705 survived?
I'll be sharing with you the link where you can see actual photos of the ship, people aboard Titanic, survivors and the story behind the sinking. You'll see how it was like back when it was still at the surface of the ocean. I have read every detail in it and I do hope you'll enjoy reading it too! It's quite a long read though, but am pretty sure you'll enjoy it ♥
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