Safety features
- 5 kilowatt Marconi Wireless Radio (just invented 11 years earlier) - transmitting range 500 miles.
- 50 telephone swi tchboard.
- Electric lights and heaters in every room (over 10,000 light bulbs).
- 2 bilge keels amidships, 296 feet long that projected 25 inches from the sides of the hull to help prevent a rolling motion at sea.
- Life boats - 2 Emergency Lifeboats (40 persons), 14 wooden lifeboats (65 persons) and 4 Engelhardt Collapsible (49 persons) - Total capacity 1,186 persons or 35.5% of total ships full compliment.
- 4 400 watt electric generators producing 16,000 amps at 100 volts.
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