Titanic 2016 page 1

Titanic 2016 page 1 by ric Gustafson


In the summer of 1909, a keel was laid at the Belfast yard of Harland and Wolff. Lord Pirrie, who was an authority on shipbuilding, was the designer. The ship was launched on May 31 1911 and was completed in February 1912. The cost was ten million dollars.
The name of the ship was the Titanic.
Titanic became the largest liner in commission and was a sister ship of the Olympic. Captain E J Smith commanded the ship. The huge liner was 882 and a half feet long and was 5000 tons larger than a battleship. The liner was a four funneled vessel with eleven decks. The huge liner could accommodate 2500 passengers. The liner was divided by compartments and was separated by fifteen bulkheads. She had a gymnasium, swimming pool, an operating hospital, a grill and a palm garden.
Titanic's tonnage was 45,000 and her crew numbered 860.  The liner's hull plates were 36 feet long and weighed four and a half tons. The rudder weighed 100 tons and the anchors 15 and a half tons each.
3 million rivets held the plates of steel together. Traveling cranes held seven ton riveting machines. The rivets were put in by hydraulic power.
Some of the decks had private promenades with the highest going for $ 4,350 and private suites for $ 2300. Some of the sitting rooms were 15 by 15 feet. The most expensive suites had a sitting room, two bedrooms and a bath. It was the most expensive rooms of it's day.
The engine room was divided into two sections with turbines and reciprocating engines. In the bowels of the ship was a steam generating plant  and coal bunkers. There were twenty four double end boilers and five single end boilers. Coal was stored in bunker space along the side of the ship between decks. Stokers put the coal into the furnaces. A refrigerating plant helped with ice making and things like beef, mutton, poultry and fish.


research help: ' On Board the Titanic' by Dover Publications


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