The Ship
How many years passed between the sinking of the ship and the year it was found?
73 years
The Titanic was scheduled to arrive on April 17 after leaving
on April 10. About how many pounds of meat did they have
per day of the voyage?
About 10,700
What was the difference in capacity and the total number of
people on board?
1,324
About how many people could fit in each lifeboat?
59
Only 178 third class passengers survived the sinking. How
many were lost in the disaster?
531
Each of the workers who built the ship was paid about $4 per
week. How much did The White Star Line, who built the ship,
pay ALL the people who worked on it each week?
$12,000
The Titanic had about half as many plates as they did pieces
of silverware. About how many plates did they have?
22,000
How many workers (NOT passengers) were there on board?
899
What was the difference in the capacity of the lifeboats and
the number of people who were saved?
467 people
A barrel of flour has about 200 pounds of flour in it. How
many pounds of flour did the Titanic have on board?
50,000
What year did they begin building the Titanic?
1909
There are approximately 3,000 potatoes in a ton. About how
many potatoes were on board the Titanic?
120,000
How much money did the ship make off of all of the third
class tickets?
$28,360
If there are 5,280 feet in a mile, how many feet was the
Titanic from land?
2,112,000 feet
A football field is 360 feet long. The Titanic was 883 feet.
About how many football fields long was the Titanic?
If the ship was at full capacity, and 5 people could be in each
room at one time, how many people might be in all of the rooms
at once (Note: This number will be more than the TRUE capacity!)?
4,200 people
If all of the loaves of bread were cut into 12 pieces, how
many pieces of bread would there be?
12,000
There were 79 children in 3rd class. How many children
were in 1st and 2nd class combined?
28
There were 2,223 people on board the Titanic. How many
lives were lost?
1,512 people
About how many days old was the youngest passenger on
board the Titanic (she survived!)?
The ship was 53 meters high. What was the difference
between the height and the length?
216 meters
The ice cream was served as dessert on the ship. Each
person got half a pint of ice cream. How many half pints did
they have on board?
4,800 half pints
The cost of the tickets would be about 9 times the amount if
they were sold today. What would the cost of each ticket
be today?
1st Class ________
2nd Class ________
3rd Class _______
$39,150
$540
$360
When did the Titanic set sail if it sank in the early morning of
April 15 (Remember, it struck the iceberg around 11:40 the
night before)?
April 10th
If the rooms were evenly split among the decks (which they
were NOT), how many would be on each floor?
About 93