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Length: 882 feet, 8 inches/268 metres |
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Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons |
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Net tonnage: 24,900 tons |
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Total capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded |
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Decks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck, A,B,C,D,E,F,G and below G boiler rooms. |
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Beam: 92.5 feet/28 meters |
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Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels. |
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Draft: 59.5 feet |
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Engines: 2 reciproctating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct - acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm |
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Propellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches |
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Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers) |
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Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet |
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Steam pressure: 215 P.S.I. |
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Watertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck |
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Lifeboat davits: 14 double acting Welin's with Murrays disengaging gear |
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Lifeboats:
20 total as follows:
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Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,178 persons |
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Personal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys |
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Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day |
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Water consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day |
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Top Speed: 23 knots |
The Making of History
| Owners | A
Grand Design | Construction | Sister
Ships - Olympic and Britannic
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| Strict Segregation | Outdated
Lifeboat regulations | The Aura of Invincibility
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| Launch | Specifications
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Leaving for the New World
| Southampton | Southampton
- The New York and a Near Miss | Cherbourg
| Queenstown |
Provisions |
Passenger Lists
| First Class | Second
Class | Third Class |
Alphabtical list | Crew
| The Band |
Lifeboat Lists
| Lifeboats 1- 3 | Lifeboats
4 - 6 | Lifeboats 7-9 | Lifeboats
10-12 | Lifeboats 13 -16 |
Collapsibles |
Aftermath
| American Inquiry |
| Causes - An extract from February 1995 Edition
of Popular Mechanic |
Facts and Figures
| Harland and Wolff's 101 Answers to
the most asked questions about the RMS Titanic |