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Dimensions & Capacities

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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

 

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​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

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Fresh meat: 75,000 lbs.

Fresh fish: 11,000 lbs. 

Fresh eggs: 40,000 

Coffee: 2,200 lbs.

Tea: 800 lbs.

Sugar: 10,000 lbs.

Flour: 200 barrels

Grapes: 1,000 lbs.

Oranges: 36,000

Fresh milk: 1,500 gals.

Fresh butter: 6,000 lbs.

Lettuce: 7,000 heads

Tomatoes: 2 3/4 tons

Fresh asparagus: 800 bundles

Potatoes: 40 tons

Jams/marmalades: 1,120 lbs.

Ice cream: 1,750 qts.

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Number of chefs and assistants: 60​​

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Costs & Wages​

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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)​

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Passengers & Crew

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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​

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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 into lifeboats: 12:25 am

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

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

Titanic completely disappears under the water: 2:20 am

1st lifeboat reaches 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

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​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.                                

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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)

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

Total survivors: 705

Lives lost: 1,517 

Bodies recovered from site: 306​​

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