RMS TITANIC - SPECIFICATIONS

• Length: 882 feet, 8 inches/268 metres
• Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons
• Net tonnage: 24,900 tons
• Total capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded
• Decks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck, A,B,C,D,E,F,G and below G boiler rooms.
• 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: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm
• Propellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches
• Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 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 with Murrays disengaging gear
• Lifeboats: 20 total as follows:

  14 wood lifeboats each 30’0" long by 9’1" by 4’0" deep with a capacity of 65 persons each
  2 wood cutters 25’2" long by 7’2" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each
  4 Englehardt collapsible boats 27’5" by 8’0" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 47 persons each
  

• Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,178 persons
• Personal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys
• Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
• Water consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day
• Top Speed: 23 knots

         TITANIC PROVISIONS

       TITANIC CARGO CLAIMED AS LOST

      Passenger Facilities:

• 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.

        Other Facts

• In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 ($10) per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week. A single First Class berth would have cost these workers 4 to 8 months wages.
• Fee to send a wireless telegram: 12 shillings and sixpence/$3.12 ($36 today), for the first 10 words, and 9 pence per word thereafter.
• Passenger telegrams sent & received during the voyage: over 250.
• Cost of the Titanic (in 1912): $7,500,000
• Cost to build Titanic today: $400,000,000

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