"16 primary compartments divided by 15 bulkheads which extended well above the waterline. Eleven vertically closing watertight doors could seal off the compartments in the event of an emergency. The ship's exposed decking was made of pine and teak, while interior ceilings were covered in painted granulated cork to combat condensation. Standing above the decks were four funnels, each painted buff with black tops, (though only three were functional—the last one was a dummy, installed for aesthetic purposes and also for kitchen ventilation)—and two masts, each high, which supported derricks for working cargo. ""Titanic""s rudder was so large—at high and"
"4 May 1897, was properly the first ocean liner to have four funnels and was one of the first of the golden era of ocean liners that became prominent in the early- to mid-20th century. The most famous four funnel liners are the RMS ""Titanic"", which sank after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage on 14 April 1912, and the RMS ""Lusitania"", which was torpedoed on 7 May 1915 during the First World War. In all, fifteen four funnel liners were built (five were built and owned by Germany, nine by the UK, and one by France): the ""Great"
"and the last ocean liner to date to sport four funnels. The Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to make ""Titanic II"", a replica of the ""RMS Titanic"". If this project was to go ahead as planned even though construction of the ship had not started by 2017 it would be a ""four stacker"" like the original. However, at least two of the funnels are planned to house observation decks and not serve any engineering function. There has also been thought by someone to build large four to five funnel liners. Four funnel liner A four funnel liner, four funnelled"
"funnel. Initially her crew numbered 80 officers and men, but this increased to 104 as she was modified with additional weapons. The ""John Ericsson""-class ships had one twin-cylinder vibrating lever steam engines, designed by Ericsson himself, driving a single four-bladed, propeller. Their engines were powered by four fire-tube boilers at a working pressure of . The engines produced a total of which gave the monitors a maximum speed of in calm waters. The ships carried of coal, enough for six day's steaming. The lead ship, ""John Ericsson"", carried a pair of smoothbore Dahlgren muzzleloaders, donated by John Ericsson, in her"
"Eastern"" in 1858 and the remaining fourteen between 1897 and 1922. Four of these were sunk during the World Wars, and apart from the ""Titanic"", the remainder were scrapped. RMS ""Mauretania"" was the fastest of all four funnelled liners. The last four funnelled liner ever built was the RMS ""Windsor Castle"" but two funnels were removed making RMS ""Aquitania"" the last four funnel liner in service and the only one to survive service during both World Wars. The primary purpose of funnels on steamships were to allow smoke, heat and excess steam to escape from the boiler rooms. As liners"
"record holders ""Lusitania"" and ""Mauretania"" were both laid out with four boiler rooms with one funnel to each room, other slower ships such as the ""Olympic"", ""Titanic"" and ""Britannic"" only had three operational funnels. However sporting four funnels represented power, safety and prestige, in keeping with the style and fashion of the early 20th century the ""White Star Line"" opted to fit the three ""Olympic""-class ships with 'dummy' fourth funnels in order to rival the two Cunard ships. The ideology of four funnels representing size and power rapidly diminished soon after the First World War, later larger flagships including the"
"funnel placed as the aftermost of the funnels. The false funnels did have more uses than simply aiding aesthetics however - a stoker who survived the sinking of the ""Titanic"" escaped the boiler room by ascending the false funnel, the aft funnel of ""Normandie"" housed the passengers' dog kennels, and Disney Cruise Line's Disney Magic's forward funnel plays host to a teens-only club. For example, the was built with very distinctive wind-scoops at the base of her funnel. When fitted with new diesel engines in 1987, which had a different exhaust requirement to the old boilers, the new funnel was"
"Four funnel liner A four funnel liner, four funnelled liner or four stacker is an ocean liner with four funnels. The SS ""Great Eastern"", launched on 31 January 1858 (a full 40 years ahead of any comparable ships), was the only ocean liner to sport five funnels. As one funnel was later removed, the ""Great Eastern"", by default, became the first ocean liner to have four funnels. However, after the Great Eastern became a four funnel ship she never carried passengers so really should not be considered the first four funnel liner. The SS ""Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse"", launched on"
"Sinking of the RMS Titanic ""Titanic"" received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen compartments to the sea. ""Titanic"" had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more, and the crew soon realised that the ship would sink. They used distress flares and radio (wireless) messages to attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats. In"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"SS ""Imperator"", SS ""Normandie"" and the RMS ""Queen Mary"" all sported three funnels to conserve deck space, later still as shipbuilding became more efficient the RMS ""Queen Elizabeth"", RMS ""Mauretania"" and the ""SS America"" reduced this further down to two funnels, today's modern cruise ships are mostly built with only a single funnel and many military vessels no longer sport them at all. Notes: In the late 1920s the world's main shipping lines were Britain's Cunard Line and White Star Line and France's Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Each of these three were operating ageing vessels and required new larger and more"
"Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic The lifeboats of the RMS ""Titanic"" played a crucial role in the disaster of 14–15 April 1912. One of the ship's legacies was that she had too few lifeboats to evacuate all those on board. The 20 lifeboats that she did carry could only accommodate 1,178 people, despite the fact that there were approximately 2,208 on board. had a maximum capacity of 3,327 passengers and crew. Eighteen lifeboats were used, loading between 11:45 p.m.–2:15 a.m., though Collapsible Boat A floated off the ship's partially submerged deck, and Collapsible Boat B floated away upside down minutes"
"the dining salon and the grand staircase were in identical style and created by the same craftsmen. Large parts of the interior of the ""Olympic"" were later sold and are now in the White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, which gives an impression of how the interior of the ""Titanic"" looked. Books: Journals and news articles: Investigations: RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers"
"two. Proportionately, the heaviest losses were suffered by the second-class men, of whom 92 percent died. Of the pets brought aboard, three survived the sinking. Books Journal articles News reports Investigations Sinking of the RMS Titanic ""Titanic"" received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling near her maximum speed when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen compartments to the sea. ""Titanic"" had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but"
"rigged as a four masted barque, she was the first White Star ship to sport two funnels. She was powered by inverted compound reciprocating engines, supplied by Messrs Maudslay, Sons & Field of Lambeth. ""Britannic""s hull was subdivided into eight watertight compartments by nine watertight bulkheads. As built the ""Britannic"" incorporated a novel system which allowed the single propeller to be raised and lowered while still connected to its shaft and without stopping the engine. This was achieved with a flexible coupling and an elongated aperture in the ship's sternpost. This feature was an attempt to overcome the disadvantage of"
"Crew of the RMS Titanic The crew of the RMS ""Titanic"" were among the estimated 2,344 people who sailed on the maiden voyage of the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean sea liners, from Southampton, England to New York City in the US. Halfway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 688 crew members. The following is a full list of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"". Included in"
"of the funnel that earned nicknamed the ""robot"" for its extraordinary shape. These two ships were one of the Italian post war ships. The ship had twin 12-cylinder Fiat diesel engines, generating 24,000 base horsepower (bhp) that drove her twin screws at a service speed of 21 knots. Both ships were designed to sail on the Italy-South America route, run with three classes. Both ships' interior were designed to have full air conditioning and swimming pools for each of three classes to make the ships looked like a luxurious hotel and to be the symbol of modern technology.<ref name=""http://www.oceanlinermuseum.co.uk/Augustus%201952%20History.html""></ref><ref name=""http://www.maritimematters.com/augustus1.html""></ref>"
"Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 815 of the passengers. The ""Titanic""s passengers were divided into three separate classes, determined not only by the price of their ticket but by wealth and social class: those travelling in first"
"by a pair of vertical inverted four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller, using steam provided by 48 Belleville boilers with a working pressure of . These were the first cruisers in the Royal Navy with four funnels. Their engines were designed to produce a total of using forced draught for a maximum speed of . The ships reached a maximum speeds of from during their sea trials. They normally carried of coal which gave them a range of at , but they had a maximum capacity of , the largest coal bunkers of any ship in the RN"
"have a length that exceeds 900 feet. Unlike other liners with four funnels, ""Aquitania"" did not have a dummy funnel; every funnel was utilised in venting steam from boilers. The superstructure of the ship, painted white to contrast with the black hull, was particularly imposing and the absence of a raised forecastle gave it an appearance too wide compared to the hull when seen from the front. Steam was provided by twenty-one, forced draft, double ended Scotch boilers having eight furnaces each that were long with diameter of arranged in four boiler rooms. Each boiler room had seven ash expellers"
"the forward funnel had to accommodate the exhausts of a dozen boilers compared to the aft funnel's six, further increasing the smoke from the forward funnel. All eight capital ships of the 1909–1910 Naval Programme had the same arrangement of masts and funnels; only the two battlecruisers had their foremast and forward funnel positions exchanged at considerable expense. David K. Brown, naval architect and historian, commented on the whole fiasco: ""It is amazing that it took so long to attain a satisfactory arrangement, which was caused by the DNO's insistence on sighting hoods in the roofs of turrets and Jellicoe's"
"of the third funnel) along with pieces of the third funnel was found. This showed that instead of simply disintegrating into a mass of debris, large sections of the ship broke off in chunks and that the ship broke in half between the second and third funnels, not the third and fourth funnels. Five of the boilers from Number 1 Boiler Room came loose during its disintegration and landed in the debris field around the stern. Experts believe that this tight cluster of the boilers marks the hypocenter of where the ship broke up 12,000 feet above. The rest of"
"Funnel (ship) A funnel is the ""smokestack"" or ""chimney"" on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust. They are also commonly referred to as stacks. The primary purpose of a ship's funnel(s) is to lift the exhaust gases clear of the deck, in order not to foul the ship's structure or decks, and to avoid impairing the ability of the crew to carry out their duties. In steam ships the funnels also served to help induce a convection draught through the boilers. Since the introduction of steam-power to ships in the 19th century, the funnel"
"torpedo tube (or amidships before and after the tube in some ships.) All ships had three funnels, the foremost being tall and narrow, the second short and wide and the third level with the second but narrower. The foremost torpedo tube was sited between the second and third funnels, a distinctive feature of this class. There were twelve 'standard' vessels built to a common Admiralty design, and eight builders' specials that (except for ""Garland"") had a shorter, less beamy hull; five of the latter were from Thornycroft with (one of Thornycroft's ships, , was planned to diesel cruising motors, but"
"indicating the recovery vessel: Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six bodies buried at sea by the ""Carpathia"" also went unnumbered. In addition to the above-listed passengers, the ""Titanic"" carried 29 cross-channel passengers who boarded at Southampton and disembarked at either Cherbourg, France or Queenstown, Ireland. Passengers of the RMS Titanic An estimated 2,400 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the second of the White Star Line's ""Olympic"" class ocean liners, from Southampton, England to New York City, New York, US. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the"
"MY Titanic The motor yacht Titanic is a 1,900-tonne yacht that was formerly the Japanese Government's research/fishing vessel Toko Maru and later Kelso. In March 2010, she developed a leak while sailing in the Caribbean. Her rescue by the United States Coast Guard was co-ordinated from the United Kingdom. Originally built in 1971, ""Titanic"" is a former research/fishing boat. She is long, with a beam of and a depth of . She is powered by four Niigata 6MQG31EZ diesel engines.The vessel is currently being reconfigured to accept 4 HS Turbochargers 4800 series turbochargers. She displaces 1,900 tonnes. Her IMO Number"
"being the first liner with four funnels. She was credited with sparking the race for maritime supremacy between France, Germany and the United Kingdom which soon saw the creation of some of the most famous ships in history. Although not planned to have had any sister ships, the subsequent (1901), (1903) and all enjoyed good careers; however, when World War I broke out, the first was sunk in August 1914 and the other three were seized in 1917 by the United States, never to return to German hands. At the close of the 19th century, competition on the North Atlantic"
"were very uneconomical and had a severely limited radius of action; ""Afridi"" and ""Amazon"" once used 9.5 tons of oil each simply to raise steam for a three-mile (5 km) return journey to a fuel depot. Design details were left to the individual builders, as was Royal Navy practice at the time for destroyers. As a result, no two were alike and there was considerable heterogeneity of detail and appearance, Most noticeably the number of funnels varied from three, in ""Cossack"" and ""Ghurka"", to six in ""Viking""; the latter, with two single and two pairs of funnels becoming the only"
"with a single military mast with fighting tops placed directly amidships; a small hurricane deck connected the ships' funnels and the mast. They had a crew of 669–701 officers and men. The ships had of freeboard. Their propulsion system consisted of four compound steam engines each driving a single screw propeller, with steam supplied by eight coal-fired, oval boilers and sixteen fire-tube boilers. ""Italia""s boilers were trunked into six funnels, placed in two sets of three all on the centerline. ""Lepanto"" only had four funnels in two pairs; during ""Italia""s refit in 1905–1908, her funnels were reduced to an identical"
"explode if they came into contact with the cold seawater flooding the boiler rooms. The stokers and firemen were ordered to reduce the fires and vent the boilers, sending great quantities of steam up the funnel venting pipes. They were waist-deep in freezing water by the time they finished their work. ""Titanic""s lower decks were divided into sixteen compartments. Each compartment was separated from its neighbour by a bulkhead running the width of the ship; there were fifteen bulkheads in all. Each bulkhead extended at least to the underside of E Deck, nominally one deck, or about , above the"
"the evening. On the ship's forward funnel, there is a 24-by-14 foot LED screen known as the ""Funnel Vision"", due to its location on the rear of one of the ship's funnels, where guests can watch various movies and shows either from the deck or from inside Goofy's Pool. Shows from the Walt Disney Theatre may include: ""All Aboard"", ""Let The Magic Begin"", ""A Final Farewell Show"", ""Twice Charmed: A Twist on the Cinderella Story"", ""Tangled the Musical"", and ""Disney Dreams: An Enchanted Classic"". Former shows included ""Villains Tonight!"" which was replaced by Tangled. Several kids' clubs are available on"
"RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 ""Titanic"" Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship . It was the fourth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on April 14, 1912. With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. Boat No. 1 was one of two small ""emergency"" wooden cutters that were located one on each side of the ""Titanic""; No. 1 was on the starboard side. Although they performed double-duty as lifeboats, their primary"
"immediately inboard of boats 1 and 2 respectively. A and B were stored on the roof of the officers' quarters, on either side of number 1 funnel. There were no davits to lower them and their weight would make them difficult to launch by hand. Each boat carried (among other things) food, water, blankets, and a spare life belt. Lifeline ropes on the boats' sides enabled them to save additional people from the water if necessary. ""Titanic"" had 16 sets of davits, each able to handle four lifeboats. This gave ""Titanic"" the ability to carry up to 64 wooden lifeboats"