The Titanic ticket

Cost of a ticket (one way)

First Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350 ($83,200 today)

First Class (berth) £30/$150 ($2975 today)

Second Class £12/$60 ($1200 today)

Third Class £3 to £8/$40 ($298 to $793 today)

Note: In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 ($10) per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week. A single First Class berth would have cost these workers 4 to 8 months wages.

Fee to send a wireless telegram: 12 shillings and sixpence/$3.12 ($62 today), for the first 10 words, and 9 pence per word thereafter.

Passenger telegrams sent & received during the voyage: over 250.

Cost of the Titanic (in 1912): $7,500,000

Cost to build Titanic today: over $400,000,000

Crew Salaries

Captain E.J. Smith, Titanic: £105 a month

Captain Rostron, Carpathia: £53 per month

Seaman Edward Buley: £5 a month

Look-out G.A. Hogg: £5 and 5 shillings a month

Radio Operator Harold Bride: £48 per month

Steward Sidney Daniels: £3 and 15 shillings a month

Stewardess Annie Robinson: £3 and 10 shillings a month

Note: The range of wages was quite extreme in 1912. In today's money, Captain Smith earned about $125,000 per year while Stewardess Robinson earned only $4100 per year!

Passenger Facilities:

2 Parlor Suites each with a 50 foot private promenade and 67 other First Class Staterooms & Suites. Decorating designs included: Louis Seize, Empire, Adams, Italian Renaissance, Louis Quinze, Louis Quatorze, Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern Dutch and Old Dutch. Some had marble coal burning fireplaces.

Gymnasium with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric horse.

A heated swimming pool (the first ever built into a vessel).

Squash court on F deck.

Turkish bath.

2 Barber shops with automated shampooing and drying appliances available for all classes..

First & Second class smoking rooms (for the men).

Reading and writing rooms (for the ladies).

First & Second class libraries.

10,488 square foot First Class Dining Saloon. Seating capacity 554.

Authentic Parisian Café with French waiters.

A Veranda Cafe with live palm trees.

A piano in the Third Class common room/saloon (a luxury for its day).

Electric light and heat in every stateroom.

4 electric elevators complete with operators. (3 in first class, 1 in second class)

A state of the art infirmary and operating room staffed by Drs. William O'Loughlin and J. Edward Simpson.

A fully equipped darkroom for amateur photographers to try their skills.

A 5 kilowatt Marconi wireless radio station for sending and receiving passenger's telegrams.

A 50 phone switchboard complete with operator for intra-ship calls.

PEOPLE FACTS

People on board: 2228

337 First Class

285 Second Class

721 Third Class

885 Crew

Survived: 705

Perished: 1523

Note: There are quite a few opinions about the number of survivors. I have seen estimates from 701 to 713. I have chosen the numbers most often and recently used.

Bodies recovered: 306

The White Star chartered Mackay-Bennett sailed from Halifax on Wednesday, April 17 1912, two days after the sinking. Between Sunday, April 21 and Friday, April 26 they retrieved bodies still floating at the wreck site.

RATIO of SURVIVORS

............... .....Women & Children....Men.......Total

First Class............94%...............31%...... 60%

Second Class.........81%...............10%.......44%

Third Class............47%................14%..... 25%

Crew.................. 87%...............22%......24%

Content source http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/facts.htm