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Reconstruction of Titanic ' s first-class smoking room, created from an original picture of the same room aboard the Olympic, which was quite similar. There are no known photos of this room on board the Titanic. First-class male passengers could enjoy a Georgian style smoking room, found at the aft end of A Deck just off the aft grand staircase ...
The most opulent suites on the ship, the Parlour Suites, included fireplaces and private sitting rooms. There were only four — and tickets cost an astounding $4,350 ($115,060 today). ullstein ...
Although the Second and Third Class sections of the ship occupied a much smaller proportion of space overall than those of first class aboard the Titanic, there were several comfortable, large public rooms and elevators for the passengers to enjoy, so much in fact that the minority of the spaces provided were actually used during the voyage ...
The British Board of Trade's regulations required fourteen lifeboats for a ship of 10,000 tonnes. Titanic carried six more than required, allowing 338 extra people room in lifeboats. When the ship sank, the lifeboats that had been lowered were only filled up to an average of 60%.
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...
The ship had 29 boilers, 25 containing six furnaces each, four containing three furnaces each, for a total of 162 furnaces. [17] Each fireman was assigned one boiler and three furnaces. Of the Titanic's six boiler rooms, each leading fireman was assigned to two of them with 10 to 15 firemen under him. Next to each boiler was a coal chute that ...
The sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912, the ship struck an iceberg during its journey from Southampton to New York City. The giant ocean liner sank two hours and forty minutes later ...
The forward Grand Staircase was the pièce de resistance of the Titanic 's first-class public rooms. [5] The two-storey-high A-Deck level featured a large wrought iron and glass dome overhead that allowed natural light to enter the stairwell during the day.