A 1st class ticket aboard the ship cost passengers $2,560 at the time, the modern equivalent of which would exceed $61,000. 100 of which were single-berth rooms. There was accommodation for over 750 1st class passengers, over 550 2nd class, and over 1100 3rd class. Passengers traveling 1st class on RMS Titanic were roughly 44% more likely to survive than other passengers.įor 1st class passengers there were 69 suites and 2 special ‘Parlor’ suites. 68% of people on board (passengers and crew) were lost in the disaster. committee investigating the sinking, 1,517 lives were lost, and its British counterpart determined that 1,503 died (815 passengers & 688 crew) while 705 people were rescued by RMS Carpathia. (between Sable Island and Cape Race), and then sank in water 2 miles deep 2½ hours later.Īccording to the U.S. The White Star liner Titanic, the largest ship ever built at the time, bound for New York on her maiden voyage, collided with an iceberg 400 miles South-East of Newfoundland, on Sunday April 14th at 11.40 pm at Lat. Here below is just a tad of the highlights of this information from my archives. Since then, hundreds of other places online have copied my data. My database and scanned image collection was so comprehensive (about 2,200 pages) that the forthcoming Titanic film (directed by James Cameron) 20th Century Fox producers asked permission to use. I curated news articles sources and images from various newspapers & global museums as background and marketing support. I compiled the 1st comprehensive database of all passenger detail (from immigration records & passenger manifests) and ships crew (from White Star Line manifests and newspaper archives) along with transcribing the cargo hold provisions & food orders. Each character in the musical was mapped to the original real life person to assist character development. In 1996, as part of the lead-up to a key project for the Broadway musical TITANIC in 1997, I spent 6 months researching and compiling the world’s largest (at the time) historical archive and library of RMS Titanic information online from multiple sources. Music played during the chaos of impending death.Promotional Advertising by White Star Line.

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