Some Thing You Don’t Know About Titanic

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Ship-Cruises
• Date: Mar 12,2008

About Titanic:
a) Titanic totally was 3547 passengers plus crew.
b) Consumed 825 tons of coal inone day.
c) 94% of women and children survived the sinking of the Titanic.
d) Within Titanic: heated swimming pools, 2 libraries and 4 restaurants.
e) Titanic was rediscovered on July 14th, 1986, 74 years after it’s sank.
f) Cost to build the RMS Titanic was $7.5 million.
g) Housed a fully equipped darkroom for amateur photographers.
h) Price of a single first-class ticket was $4,700-$50,000 in today’s economy.
i) Carried 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys.
j) The largest percentage of survivors came from first class passengers.
k) Collision occurred at 11:40 P.M. on Sunday, April 14, 1912.
l) Three million rivets held the Titanic’s massive hull together.
m) Captain E.J. Smith earned $525 per month. The look-out made $27 per month.
n) Swimming pool was 6 feet deep and was filled with salt water.
o) Passengers’ road stationary bicycles to pass time while sinking.
p) The ship’s weight fully loaded was 46,328 tons.
q) The Titanic was never christened.
r) The top speed of the Titanic was 23knots (25 miles per hour).
s) Captain Smith had made plans to retire after seeing the Titanic across the ocean.
t) Every Titanic stateroom contained electric lighting and heating.
u) It took 3,000 people two years to build the Titanic.
v) The ship was loaded withonly enough lifeboats to hold half the passengers.
w) There were 2228 passengers on board, 705 survived.
x) Among items loss on the ship were over 3000 bags of mail and an automobile.