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RMS Titanic Specifications:

Class and type: Olympic-class ocean liner
Tonnage: 46,328 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement: 52,310 tons
Length: 882 ft 9 in (269.1 m)
Beam: 92 ft 0 in (28.0 m)[3]
Height: 175 ft (53.3 m) (Keel to top of funnels)
Draught: 34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)
Depth: 64 ft 6 in (19.7 m)
Decks: 9 (Lettered A through G)
Installed power:

* 24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-en

ded (three furnace) Scotch marine boilers
* Two four-cylinder reciprocating triple-expansion steam engines each producing 15,000 hp for the two outboard wing propellers at 75 revolutions per minute
* One low-pressure turbine producing 16,000 hp
* 46,000 HP (design) – 59,000 HP (maximum)

Propulsion:

* Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers
* One bronze triple-blade center propeller. Speed:

* 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
* 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) (maximum)

Capacity:

Passengers and crew (fully loaded):

* 3547

Staterooms (840 total):

* First Class: 416
* Second Class: 162
* Third Class: 262
* plus 40 open berthing areas

16/01/2025

RMS Titanic photographed during the month of January 1912.

07/01/2025

RMS Titanic pictured here in the month of January 1912, her last funnel was placed in early January. Throughout January, lifeboat davits were fitted, the two bow anchors were fitted, which were removed some time after launch, and the hull above the waterline was painted grey.

Press photographers would make regular visits to Harland and Wolff around this time.

Information sourced from Titanic in Photographs.
Photo Copyright: © National Museums Northern Ireland

07/01/2025

On this day: January 5 1910, The work of assembling Titanic’s stern frame castings began today. The two sections weighed 70 tons, with a height of 68ft 3in.

Copyright: Harland & Wolff Collection, National Museums NI

04/12/2024

RMS Titanic during the month of December 1911
This photograph was taken after December 6th 1911, the 3rd funnel was just fitted, a grey lead primer would have been applied around this time as well.

Photo: New York Public Library

05/10/2024

This image of Titanic was taken from the decks of the Beacon Grange by a Central News photographer and this image would be used to make a very popular Titanic postcard.

18/09/2024

RMS Titanic during the month of September 1911 work on B-deck can be seen here and it would take a few more months to complete.

06/09/2024

RMS Titanic is seen here with her B-deck being worked on. Harland and Wolff's yard tug Jackal is along side Titanic.

04/09/2024

RMS Titanic pictured at the Fitting-Out Wharf in early September 1911. Photos were taken by Los Angeles corporate lawyer John William Kemp.

Photos provided courtesy of the Swiss Titanic researcher Gunter Babler

04/09/2024

By 20 August 1911, the foremast was fitted and the mainmast was in place shortly thereafter. The tops of the masts stood approximately 205ft above the maximum load line.

Titanic in Photographs

01/09/2024

On this day, 39 years ago, on September 1st 1985, at 00:48, the wreck of the RMS Titanic was found!

The wreck was finally located, 13.2 miles from the inaccurate position transmitted by Titanic's crew while the ship was sinking, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution aboard the R/V Knorr. The key to its discovery was an innovative remotely controlled deep-sea vehicle called Argo, which could be towed above the sea bed while its cameras transmitted pictures back to a command ship.

This is one of the first original images of port side of the Titanic bow wreck, the two capstans and the port and starboard anchor chains are visible.

©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

20/08/2024

Following detailed analysis by Ken Marschall, Günter Bäbler, and the major experts from the RMS Titanic community, we at the Historic ships network can also confirm that this is the last photo of RMS Titanic, taken by first-class passenger Kate Odell as she and her party were on the tender “Ireland” heading toward Queenstown, Ireland, after disembarking.

After that day, only sea waits ahead...

07/08/2024

RMS Titanic secured at the Fitting-Out Wharf, June 4 1911.

📷Henry Aldridge and son -Ltd-

07/08/2024

RMS Titanic at the Fitting-Out Wharf in early June 1911, with the floating crane by her side. Over the next few months, the crane would be used to lower heavy machinery, including engine parts and boilers into her cavernous hull.

Text provided by Titanic in Photographs

07/08/2024

RMS Titanic is seen here secured at the Fitting-Out Wharf, June 1911.

07/08/2024

Titanic, under construction at Belfast August 1911.
They are, essentially, someone’s holiday snaps of their trip to Belfast. There is no note of who took them, and the envelopes which house them are marked “Rejected”

© St George’s Windsor Castle

01/06/2024

On this day 113 years ago, on 31 May 1911, RMS Titanic was launched at 12:15 p.m. in the presence of Lord Pirrie, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay and 100,000 onlookers. Twenty-two tons of soap and tallow were spread on the slipway to lubricate the ship's passage into the River Lagan. In keeping with the White Star Line's traditional policy, the ship was not formally named or christened with champagne. The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted out.

23/04/2024

On this day 112 years ago, April 23, 1912, Original New Haven Union published an interview with RMS Titanic 's third officer Herbert Pitman. Right after the Titanic stern slipped under water, Pitman decided, among others with the same attitude, to row back to them to rescue whomever he could. However, after announcing this course of action to the passengers in the lifeboat he was confronted with voluble protests from amongst them against the idea, with the expression of fear that the lifeboat would be mobbed and capsized by the panicking multitude in the water. Faced with this Pitman acquiesced and kept the lifeboat at its station several hundred yards off whilst the passengers and crew in the water perished swiftly in the cold.
In later life Pitman admitted to bearing the burden of a bad conscience for his failure to take the lifeboat to the rescue of those dying in the water that night.

22/04/2024

On this day, April 22nd, 112 years ago, White Star sends the second ship to search for RMS Titanic disaster victims, CS Minia out from Halifax to help overtaxed CS Mackay-Bennett which has picked up 306 bodies. The Minia finds only another 17 after a week-long search. On the photo process of embalmed can be seen (equipment near body, tubes held by embalmer).

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Titanic's Graveyard

This video was filmed on April 5, 2012 as part of the National Geographic Live! Lecture series at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C. VIDEO BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

China is building a life-size replica of the Titanic

News report about Titanic replica in China ODN, report by Jessica Wakefield What do you think about this project?

RMS Titanic, trace in history

Outstanding must watch video! RMS Titanic, trace in history! Share this video, as we will never forget! Created for official RMS Titanic page (@RMSTitanicWhiteStar) by great artist Fabricio Passos from Portuguese language page RMS Titanic, Brasil

RMS Titanic in Belfast

This is one and only original video of RMS Titanic in Thompson Dry Dock, Belfast. Video was taken on February 3rd, 1912.

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