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Search complete Titanic passenger, crew, survivor and victim lists, plus biographies, class guides, lifeboat stories, rescue accounts and survival facts.

About

Learn what this Titanic history website covers, how it is researched, and how it balances storytelling with accuracy.

Sources

See how this site approaches Titanic research, source checking, survivor accounts, and historical credibility.

Timeline

Follow the Titanic timeline from design and launch through the sinking, rescue, inquiries, and long legacy.

People aboard Titanic

4 pages

People Aboard Titanic

How many people were on Titanic? Compare the British 2,201 total, U.S. 2,223 total and this site’s modern 2,208-record passenger and crew roll.

Titanic Passengers

The British inquiry counted 1,316 Titanic passengers: 325 first class, 285 second class and 706 third class. Compare survivors, deaths and different totals.

Titanic Passenger List

Search 1,317 Titanic passenger records by name, class, outcome, gender, age, embarkation port, lifeboat and biography, with context for the official 1,316 total.

Titanic Crew List

Search 891 Titanic crew records by name, department, outcome, gender, embarkation port, lifeboat and biography, with context for the inquiry total of 885.

Titanic facts and myths

3 pages

Titanic Facts

Read 90 verified facts about the Titanic, including its size, cost, maiden voyage, passengers, sinking, lifeboats, survivors, rescue and wreck.

Titanic Myths

Fact-check 24 famous Titanic myths about the unsinkable claim, binoculars, third class, lifeboats, SOS, the band and conspiracies.

Jenny the Cat and the Legends of Titanic

Explore the story of Jenny, Titanic’s ship cat, what contemporary evidence supports, and how later retellings created a lasting legend.

Legacy and inquiries

4 pages

Titanic Legacy

Discover how Titanic changed maritime safety, shaped survivor memory, inspired memorials, museums, books and films, and became a protected wreck site.

Who Was to Blame?

Examine responsibility for the Titanic disaster, including Captain Smith, White Star, the Board of Trade, lifeboats, Californian, and inquiry findings.

Titanic Safety Changes

Learn how Titanic changed lifeboat rules, radio watches, ice patrols, drills, ship design, and the first SOLAS safety convention.

Titanic Inquiries

Compare the 1912 American and British Titanic inquiries, their witnesses, findings on speed, lifeboats and Californian, and safety recommendations.

Survivor guides

15 pages

Titanic Survivors

Who survived the Titanic? Learn how people survived, compare survival by class and crew, search the complete survivor list and read verified stories.

Women Survivors

Learn how many women survived Titanic, compare survival by class, and search every published female-survivor biography on TitanicSurvivors.com.

Titanic Child Survivors

Learn how many children survived Titanic, compare survival by passenger class, and search published biographies of child survivors.

Crew Survivors

The British inquiry recorded 212 Titanic crew survivors out of 885. Compare survival by deck, engine and victualling departments and search biographies.

First Class

See first-class Titanic survivor statistics, compare men, women, and children, and explore biographies from the upper decks.

Second Class

See second-class Titanic survivor statistics, compare men, women, and children, and explore biographies including Lawrence Beesley.

Third Class

See third-class Titanic survivor statistics, learn why survival was lower, examine the locked-gate evidence, and browse biographies.

Last Titanic Survivors

Learn who the last Titanic survivor was, who was the final eyewitness, and see the final 20 passenger survivors to die.

Life After Titanic

Follow Titanic survivors through rescue, inquiries, relief funds, later careers, reunions, interviews, and the final survivor in 2009.

Eyewitness Accounts

Compare Titanic survivor eyewitness accounts by location, source date and evidence, including the iceberg, lifeboats, breakup and Collapsible B.

Complete Survivor List

Search the Titanic survivors list with all 712 names in this modern roll, including passengers and crew, class, age, embarkation and biographies.

How Many Survived?

About 705 people survived the Titanic. See why respected sources use totals from 705 to 712 and what shaped the chances of survival.

Titanic Survival Rate

See Titanic survival rates by class, gender, age, and crew using the British inquiry figures and clear percentage comparisons.

George Symons

Learn about Titanic lookout George Symons, his Boat Deck duties, command of Lifeboat 1, inquiry testimony, and later maritime career.

Walter Perkis

Learn about Titanic quartermaster Walter Perkis, Lifeboat 4, the swimmers his boat rescued, inquiry testimony, and his later maritime career.

The sinking and rescue

20 pages

Women and Children First

Learn how Titanic’s officers applied women and children first, why lifeboat loading differed by side, and why many women and children still died.

Were Third Class Locked Below?

Examine the evidence about Titanic’s third-class gates, locked barriers, evacuation routes, survivor testimony, and the inquiry’s conclusion.

The Sinking

Learn how Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, from the iceberg collision and lifeboat evacuation to the final plunge, death toll, survivors and Carpathia rescue.

Why Titanic Sank

Understand why Titanic sank, from iceberg damage and progressive flooding to high speed, visibility, warnings and evacuation limits.

How Big Was the Iceberg?

How big was Titanic’s iceberg? The exact size is unknown, but witnesses estimated roughly 50 to 100 feet above water. See what the 1912 evidence actually says.

Titanic Iceberg Warnings

See the principal Titanic iceberg warnings, when they arrived, whether the bridge received them, and how they shaped the final hours.

SS Californian and Titanic

Learn why SS Californian did not respond to Titanic's distress rockets, what its officers saw and what the inquiries concluded.

Titanic Sinking Timeline

Follow the Titanic sinking timeline from the 11:40 p.m. iceberg collision to the 2:20 a.m. final plunge and Carpathia rescue.

Lifeboat 6

Explore Titanic Lifeboat 6, its qualified occupant list, Molly Brown, Frederick Fleet, Robert Hichens, rowing disputes and rescue by Carpathia.

Lifeboat 14

Follow Titanic Lifeboat 14 from loading and warning shots to passenger transfers, its return search, rescued swimmers, Collapsible A and Carpathia.

Lifeboat 13

Explore Titanic Lifeboat 13, its qualified occupant list, Lawrence Beesley, Frederick Barrett, condenser discharge and the near collision with Boat 15.

Emergency Boat 1

Examine Titanic Emergency Lifeboat 1, its complete 12-person roster, the Duff-Gordons, empty seats, £5 payments and the British inquiry finding.

Collapsible B

Explore Titanic Collapsible B, its qualified survivor list, final plunge, Charles Lightoller, Harold Bride, Archibald Gracie, Jack Thayer and dawn transfer.

Lifeboat 4

Explore Titanic Lifeboat 4, its occupant list, A Deck delay, Madeleine Astor, Marian Thayer, eight swimmers and Collapsible B transfers.

Titanic Lifeboats

Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with room for 1,178 people. Search the complete lifeboat list, capacity, launch order, estimated occupants and rescue history.

Why Too Few Lifeboats?

Why did Titanic carry only 20 lifeboats? See the outdated 1912 law, 1,178-seat capacity, and what the 48- and 64-lifeboat claims really mean.

Distress Calls

See Titanic’s CQD and SOS calls, call sign MGY, wireless timeline, messages to Carpathia, and the roles of Jack Phillips and Harold Bride.

Carpathia Rescue

Follow Carpathia’s rescue, from Harold Cottam’s wireless message and Captain Rostron’s response to lifeboat recovery and New York.

Captain Arthur Rostron

Learn how Captain Arthur Rostron led Carpathia to Titanic’s lifeboats, prepared for hundreds of survivors, and built a distinguished Cunard career.

Cold Water

See why the freezing North Atlantic water was so deadly and how it shaped survival chances after the sinking.

Survivor biographies

123 pages

Molly Brown

Learn how Margaret “Molly” Brown survived Titanic in Lifeboat 6, organized relief aboard Carpathia, and became an “Unsinkable” legend.

Eva Hart

Learn how seven-year-old Eva Hart survived Titanic in Lifeboat 14, lost her father, remembered the ship breaking apart, and spoke against wreck salvage.

Charles Lightoller

Learn how Charles Lightoller survived Titanic, why he applied women and children first strictly, what he told the inquiries, and how he later helped at Dunkirk.

Harold Bride

Learn how Harold Bride helped send Titanic’s CQD and SOS calls, survived beneath Collapsible B, worked aboard Carpathia, and testified at the inquiries.

Ruth Becker

Learn about Ruth Becker, her family journey from India, separation during the evacuation, Lifeboat 13, and later interviews.

Michel Navratil

Learn how three-year-old Michel Navratil survived in Collapsible D, was reunited with his mother, became a philosophy professor and the last male survivor.

J. Bruce Ismay

Learn how J. Bruce Ismay survived Titanic in Collapsible C, what the inquiries found about speed and blame, and why he became the disaster’s public villain.

Violet Jessop

Learn how Violet Jessop survived Titanic and Britannic, what happened aboard Olympic, which lifeboat saved her, and the truth behind “Miss Unsinkable.”

Lawrence Beesley

Learn how Lawrence Beesley survived Titanic in Lifeboat 13, escaped Boat 15 descending above him, and wrote a major eyewitness book in 1912.

Dorothy Gibson

Learn how Dorothy Gibson survived Titanic in Lifeboat 7 and starred in Saved from the Titanic, the first dramatic film about the disaster, released in 1912.

Masabumi Hosono

Read Masabumi Hosono’s Titanic account, his probable Lifeboat 10 escape and the evidence behind later claims that Japan shamed him for surviving.

Archibald Gracie

Learn how Archibald Gracie survived on overturned Collapsible B, testified at the U.S. inquiry and created a major early Titanic eyewitness history.

Jack Thayer

Learn how 17-year-old Jack Thayer survived on overturned Collapsible B, lost his father and later recorded Titanic bending and breaking apart.

Madeleine Astor

Learn how pregnant 18-year-old Madeleine Astor survived Titanic in Lifeboat 4, lost John Jacob Astor and rebuilt her life after 1912.

Karl Behr

Learn about Karl Behr, the first class Titanic survivor, athlete, and later organizer of thanks for Carpathia’s captain and crew.

Helen Candee

Learn how writer Helen Churchill Candee survived Titanic in Lifeboat 6, suffered an injury during evacuation, and recorded her experience after 1912.

Lucy Duff-Gordon

Learn how fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon survived Titanic in Lifeboat 1, faced the £5 controversy and challenged invented newspaper quotations.

Cosmo Duff-Gordon

Learn how Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon survived in Emergency Lifeboat 1, why he paid crewmen £5 and what the British Titanic inquiry actually concluded.

Countess of Rothes

Learn how the Countess of Rothes survived Titanic, took the tiller of Lifeboat 8, helped other passengers and formed a lifelong friendship with Thomas Jones.

Millvina Dean

Learn how infant Millvina Dean survived Titanic, what happened to her family, why she had no memory of the sinking, and when the last Titanic survivor died.

Edmond Navratil

Explore Edmond Navratil’s Titanic survival story and the family drama behind the famous orphan boys of Titanic.

Lillian Asplund

Learn how Lillian Asplund survived with her mother and brother, lost four family members and became Titanic’s final survivor with personal memories.

Louise Laroche

Learn about Louise Laroche, her family’s Titanic story, and why her survival remains an important part of the passenger record.

Harold Lowe

Learn how Fifth Officer Harold Lowe commanded Lifeboat 14, transferred passengers, returned toward the wreckage and testified at both Titanic inquiries.

Frederick Fleet

Learn how lookout Frederick Fleet spotted Titanic’s iceberg, rang three bells, called the bridge, testified about binoculars and survived in Lifeboat 6.

Robert Hichens

Learn what Robert Hichens did at Titanic’s wheel, why he commanded Lifeboat 6 and how inquiry testimony differs from the Molly Brown legend.

Frank Prentice

Follow Frank Prentice’s Titanic story, from storekeeper duties and the stern to his rescue by Lifeboat 4 and the watch stopped at about 2:20.

Joseph Boxhall

Learn how Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall inspected Titanic, calculated its distress position, fired rockets, survived in Lifeboat 2 and testified in 1912.

Herbert Pitman

Learn about Herbert Pitman, Titanic’s third officer, his work after the collision, command of Lifeboat 5, inquiry testimony, and later career.

Esther Hart

Learn how Esther Hart survived Titanic with her daughter Eva, lost her husband Benjamin, and helped preserve one of the disaster’s best-known family stories.

Edith Haisman

Learn how teenage Edith Brown survived, why Lifeboat 14 is the strongest assignment and how she became a centenarian and late public witness.

Barbara West

Learn how infant Barbara West survived with her mother and sister, lost her father, became a teacher and chose privacy as one of Titanic’s final survivors.

Elsie Bowerman

Learn about Elsie Bowerman, her survival in Lifeboat 6, suffrage work, wartime service, legal career, and later work for women’s rights.

Margaret Hays

Learn about Margaret Hays, the first-class Titanic survivor remembered for escaping in Lifeboat 7 and for the unusual details that make her story memorable.

Daniel Buckley

Read Daniel Buckley’s third-class Titanic story, his testimony about a gate, his escape in Lifeboat 13, and his later life.

Arthur Peuchen

Read about Canadian businessman and yachtsman Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, his first-class Titanic voyage, rope descent into Lifeboat 6 and U.S. Senate testimony.

Charlotte Collyer

Read about Charlotte Collyer, the third-class Titanic survivor whose story with her daughter Marjorie reveals the family cost of the disaster.

R. Norris Williams

Learn how R. Norris Williams survived Titanic on waterlogged Collapsible A, lost his father and became a U.S. tennis champion and Olympic gold medalist.

Beatrice Sandström

Learn how five-year-old Beatrice Sandström survived Titanic with her mother and sister, and how the family’s migration story continued after 1912.

Edith Rosenbaum (Edith Russell)

Learn how fashion journalist Edith Rosenbaum, later Edith Russell, survived in Lifeboat 11 with a musical toy pig and became a prominent Titanic witness.

Annie May Stengel

Learn about Annie May Stengel, her first-class voyage with husband Charles, cabin C116, Lifeboat 5 and reunion aboard Carpathia.

Bertha Watt Marshall

Learn how 12-year-old Bertha Watt survived Titanic in Lifeboat 9, later lived in Vancouver and became Canada’s last living survivor.

Daisy Spedden

Learn about Daisy Spedden, the first class Titanic survivor whose family story later became closely tied to the beloved book Polar the Titanic Bear.

Douglas Spedden

Read about Douglas Spedden, the first class child survivor whose story is still remembered through family memory and Polar the Titanic Bear.

William Ernest Carter

Learn about William Ernest Carter, the first class Titanic survivor whose family story reveals how wealth and domestic strain followed the disaster ashore.

Emily Ryerson

Learn about Emily Ryerson, the first class Titanic survivor whose large family journey and escape help show how elite family travel worked aboard the ship.

Emily Richards

Read about Emily Richards, the pregnant Titanic survivor whose family escape makes her one of the most compelling parent-centered stories from the disaster.

May Futrelle

Learn about May Futrelle, the first class Titanic survivor whose escape and later writing kept alive the memory of her husband Jacques Futrelle.

Ella Holmes White

Learn about Ella Holmes White, the first class Titanic survivor whose social position and travel experience help illuminate upper-deck life aboard the ship.

Helen Bishop

Learn how newlywed Helen Bishop survived Titanic in Lifeboat 7, what she told the inquiries, and how the disaster affected her later life.

Elizabeth Shutes

Learn how governess Elizabeth Shutes survived Titanic, described the cold night, and recorded her memories of the sinking.

Adolphe Saalfeld

Read about first class Titanic survivor Adolphe Saalfeld, his perfume business, cabin C106, escape from the sinking and perfume samples recovered from the wreck.

Alfred Nourney

Learn how Alfred Nourney travelled as Baron von Drachstedt, survived Titanic in Lifeboat 7, and became an unusual first-class figure.

Charles Joughin

Learn how Titanic chief baker Charles Joughin survived, what he testified about Lifeboat 10 and Collapsible B, and why alcohol did not save him.

Frederick Barrett

Explore Frederick Barrett’s Titanic survivor story from the boiler rooms to Lifeboat 13 and the later inquiries.

Reginald Lee

Read about Reginald Robinson Lee, the lookout beside Frederick Fleet when Titanic’s iceberg was sighted, his testimony and survival.

Frank Goldsmith

Learn how Frank Goldsmith survived in Collapsible C, lost his father, rebuilt life in Detroit and wrote a rare extended third-class survivor account.

Rhoda Abbott

Learn how third-class passenger Rhoda Abbott stayed with her teenage sons, survived in flooded Collapsible A and lived with severe loss after Titanic.

Lucile Carter

Learn how Lucile Carter and her children survived Titanic, what she said about the evacuation, and how the disaster affected her marriage.

Washington Dodge

Read about Dr. Washington Dodge, the San Francisco physician and public official who put his wife and young son in Lifeboat 5 and survived Titanic in Lifeboat 13.

Marian Thayer

Learn how Marian Thayer survived Titanic in Lifeboat 4, lost her husband John B. Thayer, and faced the disaster’s lasting family cost.

Eleanor Widener

Read about Eleanor Widener, who survived Titanic while losing close family members in one of the disaster’s best known first class tragedies.

Thomas William Jones

Read about Titanic able seaman Thomas William Jones, his work during the sinking, command of Lifeboat 8, Senate testimony and later friendship with the Countess of Rothes.

Archie Jewell

Explore Archie Jewell’s Titanic survivor story and why his career at sea keeps appearing in the wider story of the disaster.

Fang Lang

Read about Fang Lang, or Wing Sun Fong, one of Titanic’s six Chinese survivors, his third-class voyage, disputed Lifeboat 14 rescue identification and later life in America.

Arthur John Priest

Learn how Titanic fireman Arthur John Priest survived and how later escapes from Alcantara, Britannic and Donegal shaped the Unsinkable Stoker legend.

Annie Robinson

Learn about Annie Robinson, a Titanic stewardess survivor whose later life and testimony reveal a great deal about women in the crew.

Mabel Bennett

Learn about Mabel Bennett, the Titanic stewardess survivor remembered for her rescue and for becoming the last surviving female crew member.

William Thompson Sloper

Read about William Thompson Sloper, the New Britain stockbroker who survived Titanic in Lifeboat 7 and spent years denying a false escape rumor.

George Thomas Rowe

Learn about George Thomas Rowe, the Titanic quartermaster survivor whose story links lookout duty, distress rockets, and the evacuation.

Eloise Hughes Smith

Learn how Eloise Hughes Smith survived Titanic while pregnant, lost her husband Lucien, and later married fellow survivor Robert Daniel.

Frederick Dent Ray

Learn about Frederick Dent Ray, the Titanic saloon steward survivor whose long life and rescue stories kept the crew memory alive for decades.

Charlotte Cardeza

Learn about Charlotte Cardeza, the wealthy Titanic survivor often associated with the ship’s most expensive suite and one of its largest property claims.

Alice Cleaver

Learn about Alice Cleaver, the Allison family nurse who saved baby Trevor and became part of one of Titanic's most discussed family survival stories.

Trevor Allison

Learn how eleven-month-old Trevor Allison survived in Lifeboat 11 with Alice Cleaver while his parents and sister Loraine died.

George William Beauchamp

Read about Titanic fireman George William Beauchamp, his boiler-room testimony, work loading Lifeboat 13 and survival in one of the ship’s fullest boats.

Dickinson Bishop

Learn about Dickinson Bishop, the first class honeymoon passenger who survived Titanic with his wife Helen after a badly timed collision with disaster.

Mauritz Steffansson

Learn how Mauritz Björnström-Steffansson survived Titanic, helped row Lifeboat 7, and later filed a notable compensation claim.

Sidney Daniels

Read about 18-year-old Titanic steward Sidney Edward Daniels, his escape on overturned Collapsible B, return to Olympic and life as Titanic’s last surviving crew member.

Robert W. Daniel

Learn about Robert Williams Daniel, the first class survivor whose later life mixed politics, prosperity, and the burden of living through Titanic.

Frederic Seward

Learn about Frederic Kimber Seward, the New York lawyer who survived Titanic, escaped in Lifeboat 7, and later honored Captain Rostron and Carpathia’s crew.

John P. Snyder

Learn about John Pillsbury Snyder, the American honeymoon traveler who survived Titanic and later entered business and politics.

Henry S. Harper

Learn about Henry S. Harper, the publisher who survived Titanic and is also remembered because his little dog Sun Yat-sen lived too.

Renee Harris

Learn about Renee Harris, the theatre producer who survived Titanic after her husband Henry B. Harris was lost in the sinking.

Louise Kink

Learn about Louise Kink, the Swiss-born child survivor who later became one of the last remaining people to have lived through the Titanic disaster.

Evelyn Marsden

Learn about Evelyn Marsden, the Titanic stewardess remembered as the only Australian female survivor of the disaster.

Marjorie Newell

Learn about Marjorie Anne Newell, the first class survivor who later became known as the last surviving first class passenger from Titanic.

Jane Quick

Learn about Jane Quick, the second class mother who survived Titanic with her daughters Winnifred and Phyllis.

Winnifred Quick

Learn about Winnifred Quick, the second class child survivor who later became one of the last people alive with direct memories of Titanic.

Margaret Mannion

Follow Margaret Mannion from County Galway to Titanic, her third-class escape, rescue in a lifeboat, and later return to Ireland.

Ellen Bird

Learn about Ellen Bird, personal maid to Ida Straus, her escape from Titanic in Lifeboat 8, the coat Ida gave her, and Ellen’s later life in America.

Bertram Dean

Learn about Bertram Dean, Millvina Dean’s older brother, and how the Dean family story became one of Titanic’s best known child survival stories.

Eleanor Ileen Shuman

Learn about Eleanor Ileen Shuman, the child survivor later remembered as the last living American survivor of the Titanic disaster.

Gladys Cherry

Read about Gladys Cherry, the 30-year-old first class Titanic survivor who travelled with the Countess of Rothes and escaped in Lifeboat 8.

Frank Aks

Learn about Frank Aks, one of Titanic’s youngest survivors, and how his family story adds depth to the child and emigrant history of the disaster.

Helen Newsom

Learn about Helen Newsom, the first class survivor whose story is closely tied to Karl Behr and the social world of Titanic’s upper decks.

Alden Caldwell

Learn about Alden Caldwell, the infant second class survivor whose family was one of the rare Titanic families to survive together.

Albert Caldwell

Learn about Albert Caldwell, the second class passenger whose family became one of the rare Titanic families to survive together.

Hilda Mary Slayter

Learn about Hilda Mary Slayter, the second class survivor whose later account helps make the voyage and sinking feel unusually vivid.

Laura Mabel Francatelli

Learn about Laura Mabel Francatelli, the first class survivor linked to the Duff-Gordons and the controversy around underfilled Lifeboat 1.

Jessie Wills Leitch

Read about Jessie Wills Leitch, the second class passenger who cared for John Harper’s daughter Nana and survived Titanic in Lifeboat 11.

Ada Mary West

Read about Ada Mary West, the pregnant second class passenger who escaped Titanic with her two daughters in Lifeboat 11 while her husband died.

Marie Grice Young

Learn about Marie Grice Young, the first class survivor whose voyage with Ella Holmes White adds a distinctive social angle to Titanic history.

Marion Wright Woolcott

Learn about Marion Wright Woolcott, the Titanic survivor whose surviving letter and later life give her biography unusual depth and immediacy.

Samuel Hemming

Learn about Samuel Hemming, the Titanic lamp trimmer whose work, testimony, and survival add depth to the crew story of the disaster.

Frederick William Scott

Read about Titanic greaser Frederick William Scott, his turbine-room testimony, escape into Lifeboat 4 and death in a 1915 boiler explosion.

Ellen Shine

Learn about Ellen Shine, one of the adult survivors of Titanic, and why her long life kept the memory of the disaster close to living history.

Elizabeth Mussey Eustis

Explore Elizabeth Mussey Eustis on Titanic and see how her survival fits into the wider first class and lifeboat story.

Carrie Chaffee

Learn about Carrie Constance Chaffee, her North Dakota family, first class voyage on Titanic, survival, loss of her husband Herbert, and later life.

Julia Cavendish

Learn about Julia Florence Cavendish, her first class voyage with husband Tyrell, escape in Lifeboat 6, widowhood and later life in England.

Ellen Mary Barber

Read about Ellen Mary “Nellie” Barber, maid to Julia Cavendish, her first-class Titanic voyage, escape in Lifeboat 6 and later recollections.

Helen Alice Wilson

Learn about Helen Alice Wilson, maid to the Spedden family, her first class voyage on Titanic, escape in Lifeboat 3 and later life in New Jersey.

Elizabeth Margaret Burns

Read about Elizabeth Margaret Burns, the trained nurse and Spedden family nursemaid who survived Titanic in Lifeboat 3 and helped survivors aboard Carpathia.

Marie-Eugénie Spencer

Read about French first-class passenger Marie-Eugénie Spencer, her voyage with husband William and maid Élise Lurette, Titanic survival and death in 1913.

Eugénie Elise Lurette

Read about Eugénie Elise Lurette, the French maid who travelled first class with Marie-Eugénie Spencer, survived Titanic and later returned to France.

Martha Stephenson

Learn about Martha Stephenson, her voyage with sister Elizabeth Mussey Eustis, escape in Lifeboat 4, criticism after the sinking, and later life.

Martha M. Stone

Learn about Martha M. Stone, often listed as Martha Evelyn Stone, her first class voyage with maid Amélie Icard, Lifeboat 6 escape and later life.

Rose Amélie Icard

Learn about Rose Amélie Icard, personal maid to Martha Stone, her escape from Titanic in Lifeboat 6, later interview in France, and long life after 1912.

Ruth Taussig

Read about 18-year-old Ruth Taussig, her first-class Titanic voyage with parents Emil and Tillie, survival in Lifeboat 8 and later life in New York.

Tillie Taussig

Learn about Tillie Taussig, her voyage with husband Emil and daughter Ruth, escape in Lifeboat 8, loss of her husband and later life in New York.

Alice Gray Silvey

Read about Alice Gray Silvey, her first-class Titanic voyage with husband William Baird Silvey, cabin E44, survival in Lifeboat 11 and later life in Duluth.

Max Stähelin-Maeglin

Read about Swiss lawyer and banking executive Max Stähelin-Maeglin, his first-class Titanic voyage in cabin B50, survival in Lifeboat 3 and later career.

Nelle Snyder

Read about Nelle Snyder, her Titanic honeymoon with John Pillsbury Snyder, first-class cabin B45, survival in Lifeboat 7 and long life in Minnesota.

Life

9 pages

Life Aboard

Discover daily life aboard Titanic for first-, second- and third-class passengers, children and crew, including cabins, meals and routines.

First Class

A look at first class life on Titanic, from cabins and menus to luxury spaces, service, and social routines.

Second Class

Learn how second class passengers lived on Titanic and why many travelers considered it strong value for the era.

Third Class

Explore third class life on Titanic, including cabins, food, shared spaces, migration hopes, and the realities of steerage travel.

Titanic Crew

The British inquiry counted 885 Titanic crew members: 66 deck, 325 engine and 494 victualling. See crew jobs, survival totals and why modern lists differ.

Titanic Officers

Meet Titanic’s captain and seven deck officers, see their ranks and duties, and learn which four officers survived the sinking.

Titanic Menu & Food

See Titanic menus and food by class, including the April 14 first- and second-class dinners, third-class meals, the last meal, dining rooms and surviving menu evidence.

Cabins and Interiors

Explore Titanic cabins and interiors by class, from luxury suites and famous public rooms to simpler cabins and practical shared spaces.

Children on Titanic

Explore what life was like for children on Titanic and how age, family, and class shaped their voyage.

The ship and wreck

12 pages

The Ship

Explore the RMS Titanic ship, including its size, speed, construction, decks, engines, funnels, passenger classes, route, sister ships and maiden voyage.

How Big Was Titanic?

See Titanic’s size in feet and metres, including length, width, height, draft, gross tonnage and actual displacement weight.

How Fast Was Titanic?

Titanic was travelling about 22 knots, around 25 mph or 41 km/h, when it hit the iceberg. See its top speed and inquiry evidence.

Titanic Maiden Voyage

Follow Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton through Cherbourg and Queenstown toward New York, with dates, route and timeline.

Who Designed Titanic?

Titanic was not designed by one person. See the documented roles of Lord Pirrie, Alexander Carlisle, Thomas Andrews, Edward Wilding and Harland & Wolff.

Who Built Titanic?

Harland & Wolff built Titanic in Belfast. Follow the ship from keel laying in 1909 through launch, fitting out, sea trials and handover in April 1912.

Titanic Route

Trace Titanic’s route from Southampton to Cherbourg and Queenstown, then across the North Atlantic toward New York on the 1912 maiden voyage.

Grand Staircase

A closer look at the Grand Staircase and the rooms that helped create Titanic’s image of elegance and prestige.

Where Did Titanic Sink?

Titanic sank in the North Atlantic about 400 miles from Newfoundland. See the wreck coordinates, 1912 distress position and why the two locations differ.

How Deep Is Titanic?

Titanic lies about 12,500 feet or 3,800 metres deep. See the wreck depth in miles, pressure, temperature, descent time and why ordinary divers cannot reach it.

Who Found Titanic?

Who found the Titanic? A joint WHOI and IFREMER team led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel found the wreck on September 1, 1985.

Titanic Wreck Today

See the Titanic wreck today: the bow, stern, debris field, Grand Staircase remains, rusticles, 2024 railing loss, mapping and preservation debates.

Victim biographies

43 pages

William Baird Silvey

Learn about William Baird Silvey of Duluth, his first class voyage with wife Alice, their separation at Lifeboat 11 and his death in the Titanic sinking.

John Jacob Astor IV

Learn who John Jacob Astor IV was, why he remains the best known first class Titanic victim, and what his death reveals about wealth and privilege on the ship.

Thomas Andrews

Learn about Thomas Andrews’s Harland and Wolff career, Titanic inspection work, damage assessment, final actions, and historical legacy.

Ida Straus

Learn about Ida Straus on Titanic, why her name is inseparable from Isidor Straus, and why the couple's story still carries such emotional force.

Captain Edward Smith

Examine Captain Edward Smith’s career, Titanic ice warnings and speed, collision response, evacuation orders, final sightings, and inquiry findings.

Jack Phillips

Learn about Jack Phillips, Titanic's senior wireless operator, his Marconi career, CQD and SOS calls, and uncertain final movements.

Wallace Hartley

Learn about Wallace Hartley, Titanic’s bandmaster, his musical career, fiancée, recovered body and violin, funeral, and the disputed final song.

Isidor Straus

Learn about Isidor Straus on Titanic, why his story is inseparable from Ida Straus, and why the couple remains so central to Titanic memory.

Benjamin Guggenheim

Learn about Benjamin Guggenheim, his family and business background, his voyage on Titanic, documented final message, and the legend around his death.

W. T. Stead

Learn about William Thomas Stead on Titanic, why his death was widely discussed, and how journalism and public memory carried his story forward.

Archibald Butt

Learn about Archibald Butt on Titanic, why his death mattered in the United States, and how his name became part of the disaster’s public memory.

Henry Wilde

Learn about Henry Tingle Wilde, his maritime career, last-minute appointment as Titanic chief officer, lifeboat work, final sightings, and family.

William Murdoch

Explore William Murdoch’s maritime career, bridge actions at the iceberg sighting, lifeboat work, final sightings, and disputed stories.

Joseph Bell

Learn about Titanic chief engineer Joseph Bell, the machinery spaces, the engineering department’s final work, and evidence from the ship’s last hours.

Loraine Allison

Learn about two-year-old Loraine Allison, her family, Trevor’s rescue, uncertain final movements, and the rejected survival claim.

Goodwin Family

Learn about Frederick and Augusta Goodwin, their six children, their planned move to New York, and Sidney’s identification as the Unknown Child.

Panula Family

Learn about Maija Panula and her five sons, their journey to Pennsylvania, third-class passage, and the revised Unknown Child identification.

Jacques Futrelle

Learn about Jacques Futrelle, the novelist and journalist who died on Titanic, and why his story still matters in first class victim history.

Harry Elkins Widener

Learn about Harry Elkins Widener, the wealthy young collector who died on Titanic, and why his name still appears in first class victim searches.

George Dunton Widener

Learn about George Dunton Widener on Titanic and why the Widener family story remains one of the most memorable first class tragedies.

Edith Corse Evans

Learn about Edith Corse Evans on Titanic and why her name is so often linked to one of the disaster’s best-known stories of self-sacrifice.

Ann Elizabeth Isham

Learn about Ann Elizabeth Isham on Titanic and why her death is often remembered through one of the ship’s most persistent and debated stories.

Bess Waldo Allison

Learn about Bess Waldo Allison on Titanic and why the Allison family remains one of the disaster’s most haunting family stories.

Hudson J. C. Allison

Learn about Hudson J. C. Allison on Titanic and why the Allison family story remains one of the disaster’s most painful first class losses.

Rev. Thomas Byles

Learn about Rev. Thomas Byles on Titanic and why his death remains one of the best-known second class stories of faith and duty.

Fr. Joseph Peruschitz

Learn about Fr. Joseph Peruschitz on Titanic and why his story remains one of the notable second class biographies in the disaster.

James Moody

Learn about James Moody, Titanic’s sixth officer, the iceberg telephone warning, his lifeboat work, uncertain final actions, and memorials.

Hugh McElroy

Learn about Hugh McElroy on Titanic and why the chief purser’s death helps reveal the hidden working side of the disaster.

John “Jock” Hume

Learn about John “Jock” Hume, the 21-year-old Scottish violinist in Titanic’s band, his family, fiancée, recovered body, and Halifax grave.

Francis Davis Millet

Learn about Francis Davis Millet on Titanic and why his death keeps the disaster tied to the artistic and cultural world of the early 1900s.

Charles Melville Hays

Learn about Charles Melville Hays on Titanic and why his death ties the disaster to the business and transportation world of the era.

John B. Thayer

Learn about John B. Thayer on Titanic and why his death is so often read beside the survival story of his son Jack Thayer.

Charles Duane Williams

Learn about Charles Duane Williams on Titanic and why his death helps broaden the first class victim story beyond only the most repeated names.

Arthur Ryerson

Learn about Arthur Ryerson on Titanic and why his death is often read beside the survival of other members of his family.

Michel Navratil Sr.

Learn about Michel Navratil Sr. on Titanic and why his death is inseparable from the survival story of Michel and Edmond Navratil.

Maria Lefebre

Learn about Maria Lefebre on Titanic and why her death helps explain the terrible burden carried by third class mothers and children.

Theodore Brailey

Learn about Theodore Brailey, the 24-year-old Titanic pianist, his military music training, liner career, engagement, and place in the eight-man band.

Roger Bricoux

Learn about Roger Bricoux, the French cellist in Titanic’s band, his conservatory training, liner career, string-trio role, and uncertain final hours.

Georges Krins

Learn about Belgian violinist Georges Krins, his Liège conservatory training, Ritz Hotel career, Titanic string trio, and memorial history.

John Wesley Woodward

Learn about Titanic cellist John Wesley Woodward, his Royal Academy training, orchestral and liner career, best cello, engagement, and memorials.

John Frederick Clarke

Learn about John Frederick Preston Clarke, Titanic’s bass musician, his professional career, recovered body, Halifax burial, and family relief.

Percy Taylor

Learn about Percy Cornelius Taylor, the 40-year-old Titanic pianist, his London background, marriage, uncertain band duties, and loss in the sinking.

Sidney Leslie Goodwin

Learn how Sidney Goodwin was lost with his family, buried in Halifax as Titanic’s Unknown Child, and identified through DNA research.

Victim guides

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Victims

Learn about Titanic victims, who died in the disaster, why roughly 1,500 people were lost, and where to search the complete victim list.

How Many Died?

About 1,500 people died on Titanic. Compare the 1,496 and 1,517 totals and learn why reputable historical sources differ.

Notable Victims

Explore notable Titanic victims, from John Jacob Astor IV and Thomas Andrews to Captain Smith, Jack Phillips, Ida Straus, and Wallace Hartley.

Titanic Bodies Recovered

Were bodies recovered from Titanic? Learn how many victims were found, why totals differ, how identification worked and what happened afterward.

Titanic Graves in Halifax

Explore the 150 Titanic graves in Halifax, including Fairview Lawn, Mount Olivet, Baron de Hirsch, notable victims, and unidentified graves.

Complete Victim List

Search the Titanic victims list with all 1,496 names in this modern roll, including passengers and crew, class, age, embarkation and biographies.

First Class Victims

See first-class Titanic victim statistics, understand why most adult men died, and explore notable passenger and family biographies.

Second Class Victims

See second-class Titanic victim statistics and explore losses among adult men, women, clergy, teachers, families, and travellers.

Third Class Victims

See third-class Titanic victim statistics, learn why losses were so high, and explore family stories including the Goodwins and Panulas.

Crew Deaths

The British inquiry recorded 673 Titanic crew deaths out of 885. Compare losses by deck, engine and victualling departments and browse biographies.

Titanic Child Victims

Learn how many children died on Titanic, why third-class families suffered the heaviest losses, and search a sourced child-victim list.

Titanic Band and Musicians

Meet Titanic’s eight musicians, see their instruments and biographies, and compare the evidence about the band’s final song.

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