Sixteenth Index Card

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• Facts about the Titanic cont..
• She had 3 anchors, which weighed a total of 31 tons.
• Each chain link weighed about 175 lbs.
  The Titanic had a gym and a swimming bath (pool) which were both very new to ocean liners.
• There were 15 watertight bulkheads that went up to E deck.
• Titanic's top speed was 23 knots.
• Titanic's cruising speed was 21 knots.
• The Titanic cost 7.5 million US dollars to build.
• The Cafe Parisien was made to emulate a Parisian sidewalk cafe.
• Stood on end, the Titanic would have been higher that any of the buildings of her day.
• There were 3 elevators in 1st Class and 1 in 2nd Class.
• The Titanic had one Renault Automobile on board.
• She consumed 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day.
• The people that reserved the suite B51 (one of the best suites), which had 3 rooms and its own promenade, paid almost $4,350 dollars (in 1912) for it.
• The Titanic had a great triple-toned whistle - the largest ever built.
• 5,892 tons of coal were on the Titanic.
• 23 tons of soap, grease, and train oil were used to slide the Titanic into the water. The whole process took only sixty-two seconds for the Titanic to complete her journey down the ways.
• She had 66,000 tons displacement.
• The anchor of the Titanic had a mass of 15.5 tons. They needed 20 horses to pull the anchor.
• During Titanic's construction, an astonishing 3 million rivets had been hammered into her hull.
• More than 15,000 people build the Titanic and the Olympic. The largest moving objects that had been constructed, at the time.
• The wealthiest passenger aboard was Colonel John Jacob Astor, with a fortune estimated at around 100 million dollars. He had just remarried an 18 year old. He died in the sinking.
• JP Morgan, the ship's owner, cancelled his trip.
• The Titanic was actually an American ship, not a British ship.