The Mighty

• Titanic was the one of the biggest MOVABLE object ever built.
• There were 2,227 enthusiastic passengers and crew members on board.
• The ship was out for history-making trip from Southampton, England, to New York City.
• It took the ship approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes to sink.
• A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic was for $4,350, which translates into $90,000 in 2006 USD.a
• It was 883 feet long (1/6 of a mile), 92 feet wide, 46,328 tons, and 104 feet high, from keel to bridge.
• The ship cost an unprecedented $7.5 million to build—that translates to $400 million today.
• Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic tragedy, died in Massachusetts on May 6, 2006, at age 99. Her mother and a brother also survived, but her father and three other brothers perished.
• Two other survivors live in England.
• Eleanor Shuman, who was the inspiration for Kate Winslet's Rose, died on March 7, 1998, at age 87.
• At the time of the accident, the ship was reported to be at 41^o46' N, 50^o 14' W. (She was found 13½ miles southeast of the position given in her lastdistress call.)
• Her three propellers were driven by two four-cylinder, triple-expansion, inverted reciprocating steam engines and one low-pressure Parsons turbine
• Contemporaries considered the Titanic the pinnacle of naval architecture and technological achievement, and she was thought by The Shipbuilder magazine to be "practically unsinkable.
  
• The Titanic closely resembled her older sister Olympic but there were a few differences. Two of the most noticeable were that half of the Titanic's forward promenade A-Deck (below the lifeboat deck) was enclosed against outside weather, and her B-Deck configuration was completely different from the Olympic's.
• The Titanic was captained by Commodore Edward John Smith, the White Star Line's most senior captain. The Chief Officer was to be William Murdoch, but he was demoted to first officer after Smith brought with him his chief officer from the Olympic, Henry T. Wilde.
• For 70 years after the disaster, it was widely believed that the Titanic had sunk intact. Although there were several passengers who insisted that the ship had broken in two as it sank (including Jack Thayer, who even had another passenger draw a set of sketches depicting the sinking for him), the inquiries believed the statements of the ship's officers and first-class passengers that it had sunk in one piece.