Here are just some of the supplies the Titanic carried (she certainly did carry a lot!): What supplies did the Titanic have on board? Unfortunately, none of the band members survived. Two dogs survived and the band played music till the ship went under. Of these, 492 were passengers most of them from First Class, along with 214 crew members.Īll 25 engineering officers died whilst trying to keep the ship afloat. There were around 2,200 passengers and crew members on Titanic. When the Titanic sank, the total number of survivors was around 705. Titanic could carry about 3,547 people when fully loaded, which is both passengers and crew but they sailed from Southampton with 2,223 on board. Those were some seriously expensive tickets! All about the passengers and crew In many cases they had sold everything to get onto the Titanic and to give them some money to get started in America. The Third Class tickets were mostly for families who were emigrating to the United States. It was $1,750 for a Standard Class ticket and $30 for a Third Class ticket. The cost of a First Class ticket was $4,350 (£875). There were 840 staterooms, 9 decks and 10,000 light bulbs. She was one of the first ships to have a telephone system and electric lights in all bedrooms, with four elevators, a heated swimming pool, a gym, two libraries and two barber shops. The engines used more than 800 tons of coal daily and the top speed was 24 knots (27 miles per hour). It was almost as long as three football fields, as tall as a 17 storey building, with four smoke stacks only one of the smoke stacks was for decoration to give the ship a balanced look. It had a height from water line to Boat Deck of 60 feet. The Titanic was approximately 882.5 feet (269 metres) long and about 92.5 feet (28.2 metres) wide at its widest point. That would be very irresponsible! Captain Edward J Smith How big was the Titanic? Lots of people say that he actually ignored iceberg warnings as he was trying to set a new time record. Smith, who was a master at sea with over 43 years’ experience. The captain of the Titanic was Captain Edward J. The journey was meant to take 137 hours – the anticipated journey time sailing from Queenstown to New York City. On 10 April 1912 she sailed from Southampton docks on her first Atlantic crossing to New York. On 2 April 1912 the Titanic sailed for Southampton from Belfast. Titanic under construction at the Harland and Wolff shipyard The big launchĪfter her launch in Belfast, Ireland on in the presence of about 90 crew members and a crowd of about 100,000 people, she took 62 seconds to travel the slipway sliding on 22 tons of soap and tallow. It was owned by JP Morgan, an American tycoon. The Titanic was built in Belfast in the Harland and Wolff shipyard by the White Star Line company. Titanic project has employed over 15,000 workers, mostly men.Įight construction workers – who were paid $10 per week – died during construction. It took 3 years to build and cost $7,500,000 (equivalent to $400 million today).
Iceberg that sank titanic size full#
Once they’d decided what they were going to do, the planning went full steam ahead. They wanted to build a ship that was even better than the luxury Cunard line on the Atlantic. On 30 April 1907, at a dinner between J Bruce Ismay and Lord William James Pirrie, the idea to build the Titanic sprang to mind.
Less than one-third of those on board the Titanic were still alive.
There were just 23 women among the 908 crew members on the Titanic.The Titanic’s length was a little over 900 feet.It’s possible that the iceberg that struck the Titanic rose 100 feet above the ocean.After the iceberg hit the Titanic, the first lifeboat was launched an hour later.Titanic’s construction cost exceeded $7 million.Building the Titanic took more than two years.Officially, Titanic was in charge of transporting mail for the British Postal Service.
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