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The Titanic was hailed the largest ship in the world, but in reality, she is only about nine inches longer than her sister ship the Olympic.
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Titanic is NOT the largest sunken ship on the ocean bottom. Her sister ship the Britannic which was sunk during World War I is about fourteen feet longer than Titanic. The Britannic had to endure an extensive refit after Titanic sank. Britannic was serving as a hospital ship when she sank.
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The time between the sighting of the iceberg and the time the ship hit was less than a minute.
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During Titanic’s test run, Captain Smith committed several complete stops from top speed. He was well aware that the ship required a minimum of three minutes to stop
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The Titanic had twenty-four huge double-ended boilers, which provided steam to the turbine, and reciprocating engines, which then turned the ship’s three propellers.
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Titanic’s so called watertight compartments were little more than watertight walls with no top. Once water filled one compartment, it would spill over the top of the wall and into the next “compartment.”
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| After the Titanic struck the iceberg, some of the first class passengers who were taking tha air on the A deck promenade felt as if they were walking down a hill. This was because the flooded bow was sinking lower in the water than the stern, causing the effect of a downhill slope. |
| All over the ship, passengers noted that their feet fell unevenly on the stairs. This effect was also the cause of the "downhill effect" caused by the sinking bow. |
| At one point, the sinking of the Titanic slowed to a trickle. If this trend continued, help would have arrived in time to save many of the passengers still on board. When the bulkhead between boiler rooms 4 and 5, which was weakened by a fire in a coal chute, collapsed, the rate of water entering the ship trippled, ensuring Titanic's fate. |
| Titanic was over 1,004 gross tons larger than the Mauretania which was previously hailed as the largest ship in the world. |
| When Titanic was launched, it took twenty-three tons of tallow, traqin oil and soft sopa to grease the ways. (The ways are the ramps on which a ship slides down into the water.) |
| When Titanic was launched, she reached a speen of twelve knots, the top speed of many ships of the day. |
| Titanic's fitting out process took ten months and several million man hours.
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| Titanic's grand staircase was designed to showcase the wealth of the first class passengers. The idea was for passengers to ride one of the three first class passengers to the top of the staircase and then sweep down to the reception and dining saloon. In other words, a grand entrance. Even passengers with staterooms on D deck (the same deck on which the dining saloon was located) rode the elevators to the top and then came down, going a total of eight decks out of their way just to make a grand entrance. |
| To serve its passengers, Titanic carried 40,000 fresh eggs, 7,000 heads of lettuce and 36,000 apples. To serve this food, she carried more than 57,000 plates cups and bowls. |
| The water was already flooding the third class decks by the time they reached them. Many were swepped off the ship before the first lifeboats were lowered. Few were saved. |
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