General

Owners: White Star Line
Head of White Star Lines: Bruce J.Ismay
Builders: Harland and Wolff
Number of people employed at Harland and Wolff during construction: 14,000 (May not be accurate)
Titanic's Harland and Wolff ship/hull/yard number: 401
Cost to Build the Titanic: $7,500,000(1912), $400,000,000(1998)
Official Vessel Number: 131428
Port of Registry: Liverpool.
Homeport: Southampton
Port Of Call: New York
Length: 882 feet, 9 inches. More than a sixth of a mile long and more than four city blocks. If stood on end it would have been 181.7 feet higher than the Metropolitan Life Tower and 270 feet; higher than the Singer building. It was 120 feet longer than the Lusitania.
Morgan Robertson's "Titan"*: 800' *The Titan was a fictional ship from a book written a few years before the Titanic sailed. In the book the Titan sinks in almost the same manner as the Titanic. (More information to be posted soon)
Decks: 9 in total, the boat deck, deck A,B,C,D,E,F,G, and below G the boiler rooms
Breadth:92.5 feet
Height: 60.5 feet from waterline to boat deck, 175 feet from keel to top of funnels. 11 stories tall.
Height of funnels: 150 feet, from the floor of the boiler rooms to the boat deck.
Draft: 59.5 feet
Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons
Depth of double bottom: 7 feet.
Displacement: 66,328 tons. Morgan Robertson's "Titan": 70,000 tons.
Net tonnage: 24,900 tons
Displacement at loaded draft: 34 feet 7 inches
Engines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp, @ 75rpm. Each engine was 40 feet tall and the largest of its cylinders was 9inches in diameter. They could turn a top speed of 80rpm. There was also 1 low pressure parsons turbine that utilized excess steam from the other engines: 16,000hp, 165rpm. It would not work in reverse. All three engines produced 55,000 shaft horsepower. It took three men to lift one of the engine bolts.
Propellers: 3. The center one was 16 feet in diameter, and the left and right ones were 23 feet in diameter.
Boilers: 29. 24 double ended-5 single ended, spread out in six boiler rooms. Each boiler was 2 stories tall and 21 feet in diameter. Each big enough to contain a double decker tramcar.
Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet.
Steam pressure: 215 p.s.i.
Fuel requirement: 825-650 tons of coal per day to keep her going at 22 knots
Top speed: 23 knots
Stopping distance: With both engines in reverse and the turbine engine off (it didn’t operate in reverse) the Titanic came to a stop in 3 minutes and 15 seconds at a distance of 3,000’.
Water consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day.
Passenger facilities:

2 parlor suites each with a 50-footprivate promenade and 67 other first class staterooms and suites. Decorating designs included: Louise Seize, Empire, Adams, Italian Renaissance, Louise Quinze/Quince???, Louise, Quatorze, Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern Dutch and Old Dutch. Some staterooms had marble coal burning fireplaces.
A gymnasium with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric horse, plus the latest athletic equipment from Wiesbaden including mechanical bicycles, "camels" and "horses"
A heated swimming pool
A squash court
A turkish bath with low couches and inlayed Damascus tables
2 barbershops with automated shampooing and drying appliances available for all classes
First, Second, and Third class smoking rooms
Reading and Writing rooms
First and Second class libraries
A 10,488 square foot First class dining saloon, seating capacity 554. It was 114’ in length and the width of the ship
Authentic Parisian Café with French Waiters
A Veranda Café with real palm trees
A piano in the Third class common room. This is a luxury not found on other liners of the time
Electric light and heat in every room
4 electric elevators complete with operators
A state of the art infirmary staffed by 2 physicians that included an operating room
A fully equipped dark room for developing photographs
A 5-kilowatt Marconi wireless radio station for sending and receiving passenger telegrams
A clothes pressing room
A special dining room for maids and valets
A 50-phone switchboard (that was used for inner ship calls) complete with operator

Total capacity of passengers: 708/725 First class, 510/650 Second class, 1216/1,200 Third class, and 892 crewmembers. Equaling ?2,434/2,576? passengers and ?3,326/3,476? (or) ?3,547/3,511? passengers and crew when fully loaded.
The Crew: Apart from the Captain there were: The deck and navigating officers, engineer officers, pursers, doctors, marconi operators, master at arms, quartermasters, boatswains mates, able seamen, night watchmen, lookouts, greasers, trimmers, stokers or firemen, lamptrimmers, reading hand engineer, boiler makers, electricians, carpenter joiner, storemen, firemen's messmen, butchers and assistants, bakers, night bakers, Vienna baker, passenger cook, grill cook, fish cooks and assistants, sauce cooks, soup cooks, larder cook, roast cook, hebrew cook, pastry cook and assistants, vegetable cooks, cook and stewards messmen, coffee man and assistant, assistant confectioner chefs, entrée cook, icemen, scullions, glassmen, platewashers, kitchen porter, carver, scullery men, kitchen clerk, wine butler, saloon stewards, pantry stewards and assistants, plate stewards, reception room steward, lounge attendant, smokeroom steward and assistant, verandah café stewards, deck stewards, library stewards, bedroom stewards, bath stewards, hospital stewards, G.H. stewards, second and third class stewards, A La Carte Restaurant manager, Mantre D', assistant waiters, cashiers, matron and stewardesses, telephone operators, boots, assistant boots, buttons, lift operators, clothes pressers and assistants, page boy, bell boys, ship's bugler, barbers, steerage passenger interpreter, store keepers, linen keepers, masseuses, turkish bath attendants, gym instructor, squash court attendant, clerks, pursers assistants, printer and assistant printer, stenographer, post office clerks, the orchestra leader and band, and window washers. The Marconi Co. employed the wireless operators. The restaurants French and Italian chefs and waiters were employed by London Restaurateur Luigi Gattii. There were 23 woman crewmembers. Nine lived in Southampton. There were 18 stewardesses, 1 third class matron, a masseuse, a turkish bath attendant, and two woman cashiers employed by the Ritz Restaurant. Three of the women crewmembers lost their lives and two of them were from Southampton.
Watertight compartments: 16, extending up to f deck
Number of compartments that could be flooded with out the ship sinking: safely, 2 compartments, but it was possible for her to stay afloat with any 4 compartments flooded.
Height of watertight bulkhead between the fifth and sixth compartment: It extended to the "E" deck.
Lifeboat davits: 14 double acting Welin's with Murrays disengaging gear.
Lifeboats: The original plans called for 64 lifeboats. Later that was cut in half to 32 lifeboats. finally they ended up with 16 wooded lifeboats and four collapsible boats. 20 total 14 wooden lifeboats each 30' long by 9' 1" wide by 4' deep with a capacity of 65 people each 2 wooden cutters 25' 2" long by 7' 2" wide by 3' deep with a capacity of 40 people each 4 engelhardt collapsibles 27' 5" long by 8' wide by 3' deep with a capacity of 47 people each. the total capacity for all lifeboats put together was 1,178 people, 30% the total capacity. The starboard boats were numbered odd, and the port boats were numbered evenly. They were grouped in groups of four, one group in each corner of the boat deck. On one given side, the distance between one set and the other was 190'. The lifeboat regulations of 1912 requireds that all vessels over 10,000 tons must carry 16 lifeboats with the capacity of 5,500 cubic feet, plus enough rafts and floats for 75% the capacity of the lifeboats. the Titanic had to carry enough boats for 962 people equaling 9,652 cubic feet. so the titanic carried more boats than the regulations called for. it surpassed regulations by 13%.
Personal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys
Number of rivets: 3 million
Weight of rivets alone: 1,200 tons
Number of steel plates used to build: More than 2,000. most were 6’ high and 34’ long. they varied from ¾ to 7/8 of an inch thick.
Thickness of hull: 1 inch.
Weight of the double-bottomed hull alone at the time of launch: 26,000 tons
Weight of the rudder: 20,250 pounds
Anchors: 3. All anchors together weighed 31 tons. The center anchor weighed 15 ½ tons. Each link of the anchor chains weighed 175 pounds.
Weight of floating crane necessary to load the propelling machinery aboard: 200 tons
Thickness of concrete under the gantries: 4 ½ feet
Height of the gantries: 175’?/220’?
Number of spectators that watched the launching: more than 100,000
Distance she had to slide until she reached the water when launching: 150’/ 750’ (sliding way) traveled twice her nearly 900’?
Amount of slick tallow, oil and soap used to lubricate the ramp:22 tons
Length of time it took to launch: 62 seconds she achieved 12 knots at launching before she was brought to a halt by 6 anchor chains and two piles of cable dray weighing eighty tons each. A man named James Dobbins was killed by the Titanics launch. Falling timbers crushed his leg and he died in the hospital the next day.
The river in which the Titanic was launched into: River Lagan
Length of extension necessary to the dock in New York to accommodate the Olympic and the Titanic: 100' into the North River
Size of the White Star Dock in Southampton: 16 acres
The berth she was tied at in Southampton: berth 44 which had been dredged to a depth of 40’ above mean tide.
Titanic’s New York pier: pier 59
Other White Star Liners: Adriatic- 24,541 tons, Oceanic, Britannic, Cedric, Baltic, Celtic, Adriatic, Germanic, Brittanic (both with the top speed of 16/knots and 10,000 tons each), Teutonic, Majestic (both with a top speed of 20 knots), Olympic (titanic’s sister ship).
Crew salaries: * Captain E.J Smith: 105 pounds/$157 a month-$72,500(1998) a year * Captain Arthur Rostron(of the Carpathia): 53 pounds a month * Seaman Edward Buley: 5 pounds a month * Lookout G.A. Hogg: 5 pounds, 5 shillings a month * Radio Operator Harold Bride: 48 pounds a month/$30 * Steward Sidney Daniels: 3 pounds and 15 shillings a month * Stewardess Annie Robinson: 3 pounds and 10 shillings a month.-$2400(1998) a year.
Ticket prices: The first class parlor suites were $4,350(1912), ($40 a square foot for six days) $50,000/80,000(1998) the cheapest first class rooms were $135(1912), $1,724(1998), second class was $60(1912), $690(1998). A third class berth was $30(1912), $175-$460(1998). Some of the third class berths had removable wooden partitions, so that the number of berths could be adjusted to the number of passengers. Any unused berths would have the wooden walls taken down and the space would be given over to a common area.
Fee to send a wireless message:$3.12(1912), $36(1998) for the first 10 words
Number of hours the wireless operators worked at one time: 14
Titanic's radio call sign: "MGY"

The Maiden Voyage

Coal bunker where fire occurred: #10 bunker of the starboard side aft of the #6 boiler room
Tugboats that helped Titanic out of Southampton: Hector, Hercules, Neptune, Ajax, Albert Edward, Vulcan.
The ship that almost hit the Titanic as she was leaving Southampton: The New York
The tugboat that towed the New York out of the way: Vulcan
Speed in which the Titanic left Southampton: About 6 knots
Tons of coal she was loaded with before the maiden voyage: 4,427/5,892/5,800 tons. It took 24 hours to load she arrived in Southampton from Belfast with 1,880 tons of coal. She used 415 tons of coal during her week in Southampton
Ships the coal was taken from because of the coal strike: Oceanic, Majestic, Philadelphia, St. Louis, St. Paul, and the New York (their voyages were cancelled). The Adriatics voyage was also cancelled. these passengers were transferred to the Titanic without having to pay the price difference even though they paid for a cheep run of the mill ship
The river at Southampton:River Test
Provisions:

Click here to read the provisions list

Cargo: Final cargo totaled almost 560 tons. this included 11,524 individual pieces.

Click here to read the Titanics Commercial Cargo manifest

Passengers aboard on the maiden voyage: 328 first class (143 women), 190 first class families, attended by 23 handmaids, 8 valets and assorted nurses and governess’ apart from stewards and stewardesses (a dozen first class men had a combined net worth that exceeded 300,000,000 pounds), 284/271 second class, (93 women) 29 first and second class children, 708/712 third class, (English, French, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Syrian, and more) (179 women, 76 children). Total 1320
Passengers who were transferred from other ships: 7 year old Eva Hart, her father Benjamin, and her mother Esther. (Esther, curiously was desperately unhappy about crossing on the Titanic. Eva recalled her mother crying. "she had this premonition, a most unusual thing for her". her dread was so great, she refused to go to bed at night aboard the ship.)
Passengers who embarked in Southampton: William T. Stead, Major Archibald Butte, Mr. & Mrs. Isodor Straus, Mr. & Mrs. Widner and their 27 year old son Harry, Mr. & Mrs. J.J Astor.
Passengers who embarked in Cherbourg: 274. 40 first class, 30-second class, 102 third class. First class passengers: Mrs. Charlotte Drake Cardoza (she brought 14 trunks, four suitcases, and three crates of baggage), Charles Melville, John B. Thayer, Mrs. J.J Brown, Benjamin Guggienhiem, Second class passengers: 30. Franz Pulbaum, third class passengers: emigrants from Syria and Crotia.
The White Star tenders in Cherbourg: Nomadic, and Traffic
People who ended their voyage in Cherbourg: 22. 11 year old Eileen Lenox-Conyngham, her mother, her aunt Alice and her 10 year old brother Denis.
Passengers taken aboard in Queenstown: 120. 7 second class passengers, 113 third class passengers. 194 sacks of mail were also taken aboard.
The White Star tenders in Queenstown: Amerika and Ireland
People who disembarked at Queenstown: fireman John Coffey and 7 passengers including the Mays, Odells (the odells are not listed on the passenger list, Lily Odell was the wife of a well-to-do London fish merchant, her two brothers Richard and Stanley May, and her 11 year old son Jack Dodley Odell, and Kate Odell. Lilys sister in-law disembarked in Queenstown for a weeks of motor touring the countryside. They returned on April 19 and attended a Titanic memorial service at St. Pauls),and father Brown (he is not on the passenger list either. he was 32 years old and a candidate for Jesuit Priesthood).
Collective worth of passengers: $250,000,000
Passengers known staterooms and decks:

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Harder (first class): E-50
Mrs. Natalie Wick: "B" deck
Mr. & Mrs. Washington Dodge: "A" deck
Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Harris: "Cquot; deck
Mrs. Lucian Smith: "C" deck
William T. Stead: C-89
Thomas Andrews: A-36
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Sleeper Harper: D-60
Colonial Archibald Gracie (first class): C-51
The Thayers (first class): "B" deck
Edith Russell: A-11
Major Arthur Peuchen: C-104
Benjamin Guggienheim: B-84
Lawrence Beesley (second class): "D" deck
Elizabeth Shutes aand Margaret Graham: C-51

Passengers Homes:
Mrs. J.J. Brown: Leadville, Colorado, C.E.H Stengal: New Jersey, Gilbert M. Tucker: Albany, New York
Number of officers, engineers, and crewmen: 397 number of stewards: 518 crew: 907/908???.
Total passenger and crew: 2227*
Number of people employed by Harland and Wolff who were aboard: 9 engineers and draughtmen
Percent of people the lifeboats could carry of the 2227: 52%
Number of miles the Titanic was anchored away from Queenstown: 2 miles
Number of miles the Titanic had traveled: The first day, (from April 11, at noon until April 12, noon) 484/386?knots at an average speed of 21 knots. The second day: 519, the third day: 386 the fourth day:519 the fifth (and last) day: 546
Ships that warned of ice: La Touraine, Rappahannock, Carmania, Caronia, Noordam, Baltic, Amerika, Californian, Mesba
Length of time it took for the ship to respond to hard-a-starboard: 37 seconds
Length of contact with ice: less than 10 seconds/10 to 15 seconds
The ship 10 miles away: The Californian
Weight of the Californian: 6,000 tons
Number of passengers she could carry: 47
Speed of impact: 20/22 knots
Compartments pierced: The forepeak, No. 1 hold, No. 2 hold, No. 6 boiler room, No. 5 boiler room. (the boiler rooms were numbered 1-5 beginning towards the stern forwards)
Damage inflicted: 12 square feet, spread out in 5 watertight compartments(about the size of a human body) 20’ below the waterline
Rate in which the water poured in: 7 tons per second, faster than water through a fire hose
Pressure put on the hull caused by the rising stern: 35,000 tons per square inch normally 24,000 tons per square inch
Height of perpendicular stern: As high as a 15 story building, survivors reported
Passengers & lifeboats:
#6: Mrs. Stuart White, Mrs. Churchill Candee, Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, Mrs. J. J. brown, Quartermaster Hitchens, Mrs. Meyer, Madame de Villiers, Lookout Fleet, Mrs. Norton
#5: Catherine Crosby, Harriet Crosby, Miss Helen Crosby, Mrs. F.M. Warren, Mrs. Washington Dodge, Third officer Pitman.
#7: Dorothy Gibson, William Sloper, Fred Seward, Pierre Marechal, Paul Chevre
#8: Mrs. Emil Tassug, Ruth Tassug, Mrs. William T. Graham, Margaret Graham, Ms. Shutes, Marie Young, Gladys Cherry, Mrs. F. Joel Sift, Mrs. William R. Bucknell, Countess of Rothes, Seaman Jones, Signora de Satode Penasco
#3: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sleeper Harper and his Pekingese Sun Yat-Sen and an Egyptian Dragoman named Hamag Hassah, Mrs. Charles Hays
#13: Dr. Washington Dodge, Lookout Lee, Fireman Beuchamp, Lawrence Beesley, Ruth Becker.
#1. Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Lady Duff Gordon, Miss Francatelli, Abraham Soloman, C. E. H. Stengal, Lookout Symons, Fireman Charles Hendrickson, Fireman Pusey
C: Bruce Ismay
#4: Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Ryerson & her son, Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Louis navatril, Mrs. John Murry Brown, Steward Cunningham, Greaser Fred Scott, Elizabeth Eustis, Mrs. Ida Clark, Miss Jean Hippach
D: Hugh Woolner Bjornstrom Steffanson, Seaman William Lucus, Mr.& Mrs. Fredrick Hoyt
#2: Walter Douglas
B: Colonial Gracie, Second officer Lightoller, Harold Bride, Cook John Maynerd, fireman Harry Senior, Walter Hurst
#11: Turkish bath attendant Maude Solocome
#15: Seaman Diamond
#9: Deckhand Paddy McGough
#14: Charlotte Colleyer, Fifth Officer Lowe, Scarrett.
Distance of lifeboats from the Titanic while it was sinking: Most 500, 600 yards
Survivors: 705
Perished: 1523, 4 first class women, 15 second class women, 81 third class women, 23 third class children, 1 first class child, 0 second class children
Radius of boats from sinking: 4-5 miles
Number of people picked up from the water after the ship sank: 13, and 1 died later. #4, 8 people, "d", 1 person, #14, 4 people. percentage of total people aboard saved: 32.3%
Number of finish people lost: 78
The rescue ship: The R.M.S Carpathia
The Carpathia's captain: Arthur Rostron. Rostron was 43 years old. He was a 27-year veteran of the sea. He had served as the chief officer on the Lusitania.
Top speed of the carpathia: 17 1/2 knots
The Carpathias tonnage: 13,600 tons
Carpathia’s passengers: 150 first class, 575 third class
Carpathia’s course: From New York to the Mediterranean
Scene of disaster (floating debris): 41 degrees 46'n, 50 degrees 14'w. (this was fourth officer Boxhalls calculate position).
Approximate water temperature the night of the disaster: 28 degrees f
Bodies recovered from the surface: 306, 116 of which were buried at sea.
Ships sent to recover bodies: The Mackay Bennett, the Minia (after a week of searching, Minia finds 17 bodies only one of which had water in its lungs), the Montgomery, and the Algerine
The Titanics grave: 1000 miles due east of Boston Massachusetts, 963 miles northeast of New York City, and 375 miles Southeast of St. Johns, Newfoundland
Depth: 12,500 feet/ 2½ miles
Stern: 41 degrees 43'32"N, 49degrees 56'54"W
Boilers: 41degrees 43'32N, 49degrees 56'49"W.
Bow section: 41degrees 43'57"N, 49degrees 56'49"W.
Distance of bow from stern: 2,000 feet Water pressure: 6,000 pounds per square inch. 400 times the atmosphere pressure
Speed of impact with ocean floor: Bow:
30 miles an hour burying itself in 45’ of silt Number of survivor’s accounts in the New York herald: 43 Number of third class passengers that testified in America: 3, 2 of which said they were held back from the above decks.
Cargo claimed as lost:
3,364 bags of mail and between 700 and800 parcels.
one renault auto owned by William Carter.
one marmalade machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
An oil painting by blondel, "Lacircasienne Au Bain" owned by Hokan Bjornstrom-Steffanson.
Seven parcels of parchment of the Torah owned by Hersh L. Siebald.
Three crates of ancient models for the Denver museum.
50 cases of toothpaste for Park&Tilford.
11 bales of rubber for the National City Bank of New York
Eight dozen tennis balls belonging to R.F Downey & Co.
A cask of china headed for Tiffany's
Five grand pianos.
Thirty cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for A.G. Spalding.
A jeweled copy of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, with illustrations by Eliku Vedder. (perhaps the single most valuable the single most valuable thing lost) it was sold at an auction in march of 1912 to an american bidder. The binding took two years to complete and contained 1,500 precious stones each set in gold.
Four cases of opium.

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