- The largest
means of transport every constructed in the world (at the time)
- Length:
269.10 metres / 882.9 feet
- Width: 28.22
metres / 92.6 feet
- Total height
from keel to bridge: 31.69 metres / 104 feet
- Draught:
10.50 metres / 34.6 feet
- Water displacement:
52,250 metric tons
- Gross Tonnage:
46,328 metric tons
- Engines:
Two 4-cylindre triple expansion steam engines + 1 turbine
- Total Power:
46,000 horsepower, including16,000 horsepower for the turbine
- Displacement
weight: 66,000 metric tons
- Weight of 3
anchors: 31 metric tons
- Weight of 3
propellers: 98 metric tons
- Hull: Double
bottom + 16 watertight compartments separated by 15 bulkheads
- Decks: 9
decks
- Boilers:
29
- Furnaces:
159
- Triple expansion
engines: 2 (four cylinders)
- Total power:
46 000 hp
- Generators:
4 (400 kW, 16,000 amp)
- Speed: 22
knots (maximum 24 - 25 knots, or 45 km/h)
- Rivets:
3 million, weighing 1,200 metric tons
- Coal bunker
capacity: 8,000 metric tons (consumption of 825 metric tons a day)
- Passenger capacity:
2,435 people
- Crew capacity:
885 people
- Total capacity
(passenger + crew): 3,320 people
- Passengers aboard:
2,201 people
- Lifeboats:
20
- Total capacity
of lifeboats: 1,178 people
- Lifebuoys:
49
- Victims:
1,503
- Rescued: 703
- The ship's safe contained 300 million dollars worth of jewellery (most notably a case containing diamonds belonging to a South African mining company, and a copy of a 12th-century Persian manuscript, the Rubayiat of the poet, astronomer, and mathematician, Omar Khayyám (1048-1131), adorned with 1,050 precious stones encrusted into its binding).
- A normal ticket for New York was worth 35 dollars (today, equivalent to about 620 €), far less than the price of a 1st class luxury suite, which was worth as much as 4,500 dollars, or around 78,950 € today.
- Cost of the
James Cameron film: 200 million euros
- Worldwide revenues for the film and royalties: 3.4 billion euros
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