[not_math]

The Titanic cost $7.5 million to build, which is $200 million in today's money (as of 2020) [1]. I'm pretty confident this is not the cost of the average flat in London.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/titanic-facts-construction-pass...

[nostromo]

The price was 1.5m pounds, as the ship was not built in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic

[netrus]

Pretty sure the Titanic was paid in GBP -- the 1.5M GBP number is correct, the exchange rate was bit different back than.

https://steemit.com/money/@lixtiklipbalm/exchange-rate-of-br...

[pessimizer]

And when the Titanic cost £1.5M, the average weekly wage in the UK was £5.

[quickthrower2]

/r/whoosh