This page is dedicated to the crew and passengers of the ill fated liner Titanic. This page contains actual pictures of the ship and also scenes from the recent Hollywood blockbuster film about the maiden and sadly also the last voyage of this ship

This is an actual photograph of the Titanic.

It is in fact the last ever known picture to be taken of this ship before she sank

Of April 14th. 1912 RMS Titanic set off across the North Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage from Southhampton to New York











Another Actual picture of the Titanic as she sailed off to New York

















Facts About Titanic

RMS TITANIC - SPECIFICATIONS
  • Length: 882 feet, 9 inches/268 metres
  • Decks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck A,B,C,D,E,F,G below G boiler rooms.
  • Beam: 92.5 feet/28 meters
  • Draft:59.5 feet
  • Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels.
  • Passengers: 329 First Class, 285 Second Class, 710 Third Class
  • Crew: 899
  • Lifeboats: 20 total - 16 wooden lifeboats with 4 Engelhardt collapsables. Capacity - 1,178 persons
  • Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons
  • Net tonnage: 24,900 tons
  • Total capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded
  • Engines: 2 reciproctating 4 cylinder, triple expansion,direct -
    acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure
    Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm
  • Propellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet, 4'000 tonnes ; Left/Right wings: 23
    feet 6 inches
  • Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers)
  • Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
  • Watertight compartments: 15, extending up to E deck
  • Water consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day
  • Top Speed: 23 knots















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