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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.
Occupation. Engineer. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche (26 May 1886 – 15 April 1912) was a Haitian engineer. He was one of only three passengers of known Haitian ancestry (the other two being his children) on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic. [1][2][3] He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat; they survived ...
Titanic has played a prominent role in popular culture ever since her sinking. The disaster has inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems and works of art, and has lent itself to a great variety of interpretations of its significance, meaning and legacy. The immediate aftermath of the sinking saw an outpouring of poetry, though much ...
Encyclopedia Titanica is an online reference work containing extensive and constantly updated information on the RMS Titanic. [1] 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 ...
The following is a full list [4] of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Included in this list are the nine-member Guarantee Group and the eight members of the ship's band, who were given passenger accommodations and treated as both passengers and crew.
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died (figures vary), making the incident one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a single ...
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York City. But a few days into the trip, the ship hit an iceberg and sank within hours. Approximately ...
Emily married Arthur Larned Ryerson on January 31, 1889. Born on 12 January 1851 in Chicago, Arthur was the son of Joseph Turner Ryerson, founder of the iron and steel company Joseph T. Ryerson & Co. His mother was Ellen Griffin Larned. Emily and Arthur had five children: Susan "Suzette" Parker Ryerson (August 3, 1890), Arthur Larned Ryerson ...