Floor Plans
Deck Plans of the Titanic showing deck accomodation - Harland and Wolff
These highly detailed plans are reproduced from the original construction drawings. It is known that the design originated from rough sketches made by Lord Pirrie, Chairman of Harland and Wolff and J. Bruce Ismay, Managing Director of the White Star Line after dinner one evening in 1907 at Devonshire House which was Lord Pirrie's home in London.
One feature that most distinguished Titanic from her sister ship, Olympic was the partial plating or glazing in of the forward one third of the promenade deck. This modification was suggested by Thomas Andrews as the result of observations taken during the sea trials of Olympic and was designed to allow the passengers to stroll in greater comfort protected from the elements when the weather was bad. The total effect of these modifications was to make the Titanic slightly heavier than Olympic.
The Titanic was above all other ships and considered the greatest of her time. The steerage cabins might look small and minimal to us in our present time, but back then, they were considered glamorous. They were much more elegant than other steerage cabins. First-class was heaven, the stories told about the atmosphere didn't even give credit to the ship. She was amazing, and called "a floating hotel". Thousands of people crowded around the port on April 12, 1912 just to see and tell people they had seen the great ship Titanic leave the port in Southampton.
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