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Titanic: By the Numbers

Dimensions & Capacities

Ship length 882 1/2 ft.

Ship weight 53,000 T.

Top speed 24 knots

Coal used to power ship 620-640 T./day at top speed

Number of boilers 29

Number of portholes & windows 2,000

Dining On Board

Breakfast hours 8:30 am - 10:30 am

Lunch hours 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Dinner hours 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Fresh meat 75,000 lb.

Fresh fish 11,000 lb.

Fresh eggs 40,000

Coffee 2,200 lb.

Tea 800 lb.

Sugar 10,000 lb.

Flour 200 barrels

Grapes 1,000 lb.

Oranges 36,000

Fresh milk 1,500 gal.

Fresh butter 6,000 lb.

Lettuce 7,000 heads

Tomatoes 2 3/4 T.

Fresh asparagus 800 bundles

Potatoes 40 T.

Jams/marmalades 1,120 lb.

Ice cream 1,750 qt.

Number of chefs and assistants 60

Costs & Wages

Wages of shipyard workers £2 / week

Captain Smith's salary £1,250 / year

Titanic crew salary £42-72 / year

Wage of Marconi Company telegram operators £25.50-51 / year

Cost to send a telegram from Titanic $3 / ten words

Cost of a 1st Class ticket £86-660 ($430-3,300)

Cost of a 2nd Class ticket £13 ($65)

Cost of a 3rd Class ticket £7 ($35)

Passengers & Crew

Number of Titanic crew members 899

Number of female crew members 23

Number of 1st Class passengers 329

Number of 2nd Class passengers 285

Number of 3rd Class passengers 710

Total number of passengers 1324

Number of couples honeymooning on Titanic 13

Net worth of Titanic's wealthiest passengers $600 M ($9.8 B today)

Total number of individuals on Titanic 2,223

The Titanic Disaster

Titanic lookout sees iceberg 11:39 pm

Titanic strikes iceberg 11:40 pm

First distress signal is sent 12:10 am

Orchestra is ordered to play to calm passengers 12:15 am

Stewards ordered to load women & children 12:25 am

into lifeboats

1st lifeboat (Lifeboat #7) begins lowering 12:45 am

Due to ship's extreme tilt, orchestra is forced to 2:00 am

stop playing

Titanic completely disappears under the water 2:20 am

1st lifeboat reachest the Carpathia 4:10 am

Time between iceberg sighting and impact 37 seconds

Height of the iceberg over 60 ft.

Temperature of water that night 28° F

Time to succumb to hypothermia in water around 20 minutes

Number of lifeboats

Full lifeboats 14, capacity of 65

Emergency sea boats 2, capacity of 40

Collapsible lifeboats 4, capacity of 47

Number of spots on lifeboats at capacity 1,178

Distance lifeboats were lowered 60 ft.

Responders to Titanic's distress call Olympic, Frankfurt, and Carpathia

Distance from Carpathia to Titanic 58 mi.

Distance from Californian to Titanic 19 1/2 mi.

(did not respond to distress call)

First passenger rescued by Carpathia Elisabeth Allen, 22, heiress from St. Louis

Total survivors 705

Lives lost 1,517

Bodies recovered from site 306

Content taken from 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to your Questions about the Titanic, by Hugh Brewster & Laurie Coulter