About Titanic

Career

Name: RMS Titanic

Owner:White Star Line

Port of Registry:Liverpool, United Kingdom

Route:Southampton to New York City

Builder:Harland and Wolff yards in Belfast, Ireland

Yard number:401

Laid down:31 March 1909

Launched:31 May 1911

Christened:Not christened

Maiden voyage:10 April 1912

Fate:Sank after hitting an iceberg on 15 April 1912

General characteristics

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 6 in (28.2 m)

Draught:34 ft 7 in (10.5 m)

Installed power:24 double-ended (six furnace) and 5 single-ended (three furnace) Scotch 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. 59,000 hp was produced at maximum revolutions.[1]

Propulsion:Two bronze triple-blade wing propellers. One bronze quadruple-blade centre propeller.

Speed:21 knots (39 km/h/24 mph)maximum 23 knots

Capacity:3,547 passengers and crew, fully loaded