| Flag | United Kingdom |
| Shipping company | Cunard Line |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Designer | Leonard Peskett |
| Gross tonnage | 31,550 |
| Displacement tonnage | 38,000 |
| Net tonnage | 12,611 |
| Length overall | 787 feet / 239.8 meters |
| Length between perpendiculars | 760 feet / 231.5 meters |
| Beam | 87 feet 6 inches / 26.7 meters |
| Draft | 33 feet 6 inches / 10.2 meters |
| Depth | 60 feet 4.25 inches / 18.4 meters |
| Number of funnels | 4 |
| Number of masts | 2 |
| Number of decks | 10 – Navigation, Boat (A), Promenade (B), Shelter (C), Saloon (D), Main (E), Lower (F), Orlop, Lower Orlop, Tank Top |
| Machinery | Four Parsons steam turbines direct-action powering three-bladed quadruple screws, 76,000 horsepower; four-bladed screws fitted 1909. |
| Boilers | 25 cylindrical Scotch (23 double ended, 2 single ended) in four boiler rooms; 192 furnaces with total heating surface 158 350 square feet; steam pressure 195 pounds per square inch. |
| Coal consumption | 840 tons per day |
| Service speed | 25 knots, maximum 26.35 knots |
| Electrical generators | 4 generator sets, each with 375-kilowatt capacity, 110-120 voltage. |
| Cooling water consumption | 65,000 gallons / 246,025 liters per minute |
| Builder | John Brown and Co., Clydebank, Scotland |
| Yard number | 367 |
| Official number | 124,082 |
| Rivets used in construction | 4,000,000 + |
| Launch date | 7 June 1906 |
| Godmother | Mary, Lady Inverclyde |
| Passenger accommodation | Designed: 552 saloon (first class, 260 rooms) 460 second cabin (second class, 145 rooms) 1,186 third class (302 rooms) 2,298 total
In 1915: |
| Crew accommodation | Designed: 69 deck 389 victualling 369 engineering 827 total (850 in 1915) |
| Carrying capacity | Designed, 3,125 In 1915: 3,015 |
| Lifeboats | Designed, 16 standard boats; May 1915, 22 standard, 26 collapsibles. |
More Facts
- Maiden voyage: Liverpool, England – New York, USA, 7 – 13 September 1907
- Round trip voyages: 101 (202 crossings)
- Length of career: 7 yrs, 9 months
- Lusitania’s Parsons turbine engines were 25 feet long with 12 ft diameter rotors.
- Lusitania’s counter-balanced rudder weighed 56 tons.
- The rudder machinery was built by Brown Brothers, Edinburgh. A main steering engine drove the rudder through worm gear and clutch operating on a toothed quadrant rack. A reserve engine, for emergencies, operated separately on the rack through a chain drive.
- The ship’s stockless bower anchors weighed 10 1/4 tons, made by N. Hingley and Sons, Ltd.
- The anchor chains weighed 125 tons and were 330 fathoms long, made by N. Hingley and Sons, Ltd.
- The capstans were steam powered and made by Napier brothers Ltd, Glasgow.
Lusitania Firsts:
- First British four-stacker.
- First four-stacker with evenly spaced funnels. (although the space between funnels 2 and 3 was actually four feet wider than the spaces between the other funnels)
- First ship larger than 30,000 gross tons.
- First ship to cross the Atlantic in under five days.
- First quadruple-screw speed record-breaker.
- First turbine-driven speed record-breaker
- First ship wider than the Great Eastern (1858).
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