Titanic Ship Model with Lights

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The Lighted Titanic model measures 32"(long) 13"(high) 4"(wide) app. and is shipped fully assembled, ready to be displayed. This is one of the finest ship models available anywhere!! Great Gift Item! The Titanic model ship sits perfectly on the included base, which is made of a high-quality, conditioned wood, and has a brass name plate. The Titanic Cruise ship model is built from scratch by experienced master craftsman and is not from any sort of kit. To create the subtle details and definitions of the deck and hull, the plank on frame method of construction is used, which requires hundreds of hours of pain-staking, detailed work.

The highest quality, rare woods (including Ebony, Rosewood, Blackwood, Mahogany, Jack wood, and Sycamore) used to construct our models are subjected to specific seasoning procedures to ensure that the model will withstand severe climate and never warp or split. Details and ornamentation such as anchors are sculpted of brass and stainless steel. The meticulously painted cruise ship accurately represents the true colors of the real Titanic Cruise Liner. There are many incredible details including pipes, ladders, vents, and life boats covering the deck of the Titanic.

Extensive research is required to build each Titanic model to scale, using various pictures, original plans, drawings, and digital imaging. Each Titanic model ship is examined during various stages of manufacturing and shipping to ensure the highest quality and accuracy possible for your investment.

History

The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was the last grand dream of the Gilded Age. It was designed to be the greatest achievement of an era of prosperity, confidence and propriety. Although no one knew it, the world was about to change drastically. Radio had been invented in 1901. The Wright Brothers' first successful flight was in 1903. The old presumptions about class, morals, and gender-roles were about to be shattered. If the concept of Titanic was the climax of that age, then perhaps its sinking was the curtain that marked the end of the old drama, and the start of a new one.

The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was constructed around 1911. She cost about $7.3 million to create and was considered the greatest ship of the time. The Titanic was designed to remain afloat with any two or three compartments flooded and to able endure a collision at the joint of two compartments in that case. The Titanic cruise ship was regarded to be unsinkable, to be herself a lifeboat.

The Titanic was 269 meters long, 28 meters wide, and a gross tonnage of 45,000 tons. The Titanic could hold 3,500 passengers and crew members but carried life boats for just over 1,000. Titanic boasted a squash court, swimming pool, and a gymnasium with a mechanical horse.

The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats, the requirements of The British Board of regulations. However, these standards proved far insufficient when at 11:40 p.m, on the 14th April 1912, the greatest disaster of maritime history occurred: the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

RMS TITANIC - SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 882 feet, 8 inches/268 meters
Gross tonnage: 46,328 tons
Net tonnage: 24,900 tons
Total capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded
Decks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck, A,B,C,D,E,F,G and below G boiler rooms.
Beam: 92.5 feet/28 meters
Height: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels.
Depth: 59.5 feet
Draft: about 34 feet
Engines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct - acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm
Propellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches
Boilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers)
Furnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet
Steam pressure: 215 P.S.I.
Watertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck
Lifeboat davits: 14 double acting Welin's with Murrays disengaging gear
Lifeboats: 20 total as follows:
14 wood lifeboats each 30’0" long by 9’1" by 4’0" deep with a capacity of 65 persons each
2 wood cutters 25’2" long by 7’2" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each
4 Englehardt collapsible boats 27’5" by 8’0" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 47 persons each
Lifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,178 persons
Personal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys
Fuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day
Water consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day
Top Speed: 23 knots
Staterooms: 840
First Class: 416
Second Class: 162
Third Class: 262 plus 40 open berthing areas
Construction and fitting out time: 3 Years
Rivets used in the hull: 3 million
Note: The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.

TITANIC PROVISIONS

Fresh Meat 75,000 lbs
Fresh Fish 11,000 lbs
Salt & dried fish 4,000 lbs
Bacon and Ham 7,500 lbs
Poultry and game 25,000 lbs
Fresh Eggs 40,000
Sausages 2,500 lbs
Potatoes 40 tons
Onions 3,500 lbs
Tomatoes 3,500 lbs
Fresh Asparagus 800 bundles
Fresh Green Peas 2,500 lbs
Lettuce 7,000 heads
Sweetbreads 1,000
Ice Cream 1,750 lbs
Coffee 2,200 lbs
Tea 800 lbs
Rice,dried beans etc.10,000 lbs
Sugar 10,000lbs
Flour 250 barrels
Cereals 10,000 lbs
Apples 36,000
Oranges 36,000
Lemons 16,000
Grapes 1,000lbs
Grapefruit 13,000
Jams and Marmalade 1,120 lbs
Fresh Milk 1,500 gal
Fresh Cream 1,200 qts
Condensed Milk 600 gals
Fresh Butter 6,000lbs
Ales and Stout 15,000 bottles
Wines 1,000 bottles
Spirits 850 bottles
Minerals 1,200bottles
Cigars 8,000

57,600 items of crockery
29,000 pieces of glassware
44,000 pieces of cutlery
Among these:
Tea Cups: 3,000
Dinner Plates: 12,000
Ice Cream Plates: 5,500
Soufflé Dishes: 1,500
Wine Glasses: 2,000
Salt Shakers: 2,000
Pudding Dishes: 1,200
Finger Bowls: 1,000
Oyster Forks: 1,000
Nut Crackers: 300
Egg Spoons: 2,000
Grape Scissors: 1,500
Asparagus Tongs: 400
Linens
Aprons: 4,000
Blankets: 7,500
Table Cloths: 6,000
Bed Covers: 3,600
Eiderdown Quilts: 800
Single Sheets: 15,000
Table Napkins: 45,000
Bath Towels: 7,500
Fine Towels: 25,000
Roller Towels: 3,500
Double Sheets: 3,000
Pillow-slips: 15,000

TITANIC CARGO CLAIMED AS LOST
3,364 bags of mail and between 700 and 800 parcels.
One Renault 35 hp automobile owned by passenger William Carter.
One Marmalade Machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
Oil painting by Blondel, "La Circasienne Au Bain" owned by Hokan Björnström-Steffanson.
Seven parcels of parchment of the Torah owned by Hersh L. Siebald.
Three crates of ancient models for the Denver Museum.
50 Cases of toothpaste for Park & Tilford
11 bales of rubber for the National City Bank of New York
Eight dozen tennis balls were lost which were to go to R.F. Downey & Co.
A cask of china headed for Tiffany's.
Five Grand Pianos.
Thirty cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for A.G. Spalding.
A jewelled copy of The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, with illustrations by Eliku Vedder sold for £405 at auction in March of 1912 to an American bidder. The binding took two years to execute, and the decoration embodied no fewer than 1,500 precious stones, each separately set in gold.
Four cases of opium

MORE FACTS
Cost of a ticket (one way)
First Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350 ($69,600 today)
First Class (berth) £30/$150 ($2400 today)
Second Class £12/$60 ($960 today)
Third Class £3 to £8/$40 ($172 to $640 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 ($50 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 $100,000 per year while Stewardess Robinson earned only $3300 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 real 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 staffed by 2 physicians that included an operating room.
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%
(chart source: The Titanic: End of a Dream)
Final(?) resting place of the Titanic
1000 miles due east of Boston, Massachusetts, and 375 miles southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland. Depth: 12,500 feet.
Stern Section: 41°43'35" N, 49°56'54" W
Boilers:41°43'32" N, 49°56'49" W
Bow Section:41°43'57" N, 49°56'49" W
Speed of the Titanic at impact: 20.5 knots
Titanic's Radio Callsign: "MGY"
Port of registry: Liverpool
Official Vessel Number: 131428

Poignant quote:
"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Edward J. Smith, 1907
Captain, RMS Titanic, 1912
Captain Smith was planning to retire after the maiden voyage of Titanic

on 03/04/2013 04:09pm

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