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Name:Royal Mail Steamer Titanic
Description: Triple-screw steam-powered ocean-liner
Class: Olympic class liner
Keel number: 401
Board of trade registration number: 131428
Owner: White Star Line, Liverpool
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Home port: Liverpool
Captain: Edward John Smith
Dimensions
Tonnage (gross): 46.328 tons
Tonnage (net): 21.831 tons
Displacement at design draught: 52.310 tons
Displacement at departure: 50,852 tons (figures vary)
Displacement at time of collision: 48,478 tons (figures vary)
Overall length: 882 ft 9 in (269,1 metres)
Beam: 92 ft 6 in (28,2 metres)
Moulded depth: 59 ft 6 in (18,1 metres)
Height from keel to bridge: 104 ft (31,7 metres)
Height from waterline to boat deck: 60 ft 6 in (18,4 metres)
Design draught: 34 ft 7 in (10,54 metres)
Draft: 59 ft 6 in (18,1 metres)
Passengers
Passengers, first class: 735
Passengers, second class: 674
Passengers, third class: 1.026
Passengers, total: 2.435
Crew: 885
Total passengers and crew: 3.320 (some sources claim 3.547)
Lifeboats
Lifeboats: 2 emergency cutters, 14 regular lifeboats, 4 collapsible rafts
Lifeboat capacity: 1.178 persons
Ship Specs
Boilers: 29 (24 double ended, 5 single ended)
Furnaces: 159
Coal used per day, average: 650 tons
Engines: 2 four-sylinder triple expansion, 1 turbine
Steam pressure: 215 psi
Total horsepower: 46.000-50.000
Electricity power output: Four 400 Kw generators producing 16.000 amps at 100 volts
Propellers: 3
Service speed: 21 knots
Maximum speed: 24-25 knots
Stopping distance at ca 20 knots: ca. 850 yards (777 metres)
Turning radius at ca 20 knots: 3.850 ft (1.173,5 metres)
Funnels: 4 (3 connected to furnaces, 1 to kitchen ventilation and turbine)
Funnel diameter: 22 ft (6,7 metres)
Funnel height: 62 ft (18,9 metres)
Watertight compartments: 16
Anchors: 3 (2 side, 1 central)
Anchor weight (combined): 31 tons
Anchor chain: 300 fathoms (1800 feet/548 metres) for each anchor in use
Rudder weight: 101 tons
Decks: 10
Steam whistles: 2 three-tone whistles
Wireless
Wireless apparatus: 5Kw Marconi transmitter/receiver
Wireless range, guaranteed: 250 miles (402 km)
Wireless range, possible: 400 miles (643 km) possible at daytime/ 2000 miles (3218 km) at night
Design (main transmitter): Rotary spark
Operator: Two, employees of the Marconi wireless company
Dates
Keel laid: 31st March 1909
Launched: 31st May 1911
Board of Trade registration: 25th March 1912
Sea trials: 2nd April 1912
Maiden voyage: 10th April 1912 from Southampton, destination New York
Collision with iceberg: 14th April 1912
Sinking: 15th April 1912