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Georgette Madill, first-class passenger. The Titanic 's first-class list was a "who's who" of the prominent upper class in 1912.A single-person berth in first class cost between £30 (equivalent to £3,800 in 2023) and £870 (equivalent to £109,000 in 2023) for a parlour suite and small private promenade deck.
The website, a nonprofit endeavor, is a database of passenger and crew biographies, deck plans, and articles submitted by historians or Titanic enthusiasts. In 1999, The New York Times noted that the site "may be the most comprehensive Titanic site", based on its content including passenger lists and ship plans. [2]
These include confusion over the passenger list, which included some names of people who cancelled their trip at the last minute, and the fact that several passengers travelled under aliases for various reasons and were therefore double-counted on the casualty lists. [231] The death toll has been put at between 1,490 and 1,635 people. [232]
John Borland "Jack" Thayer III (December 24, 1894 – September 20, 1945) was a first-class passenger on RMS Titanic who survived the ship's sinking. Aged 17 at the time, he was one of only a handful of passengers to survive jumping into the frigid ocean. He later wrote and privately published his recollection of the sinking.
Youngest passenger aboard and last remaining survivor of the RMS Titanic Eliza Gladys Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009), known as Millvina Dean , was a British civil servant, cartographer , and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. [ 1 ]
The history of the ship, its passengers and wreckage has fascinated society for years from survivor interviews and documentaries to the Academy Award-winning 1997 film “Titanic,” directed by ...
Newspaper report of the sinking of the Titanic. Most reports featured the Astors in the headlines. Madeleine Astor, then five months pregnant, boarded the Titanic as a first-class passenger in Cherbourg, France, with her husband; her husband's valet, Victor Robbins; her maid, Rosalie Bidois; and her nurse, Caroline Endres.
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...