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Hypothetical: If you were aboard the Titanic.
Would you have lived or died? Find out here and I'll let you know.
Tell me if you want to be a man, or if you'll take on the role of either gender, and I'll roll the dice for you and assign you a real person who was on the ship.* (If you're a woman, let me know too and I can give you a female dice roll.) If you don't tell me, I'll assume you're a guy. I'll let you know the person's name, age, origin, embarkation point, destination, passenger class if they were a passenger, and their department and job if they were on the crew. In some cases we don't know so you'll get a blank, but the information is pretty good. Oh, and if you were a passenger your crew stuff will come back as unknown, and vice versa if you were crew. There was a small handful of people who were both passengers and crew. The ship's orchestra and the Guarantee Workers were the two groups listed in both classes. (Guarantee workers were the expert repair guys who were assigned to the maiden voyage to make repairs of anything new that was broken. They apparently didn't have expertise in major hull repairs.) You're then welcome to look up more detail about the person if you can find it. Some of them have interesting stories. So sign up in the thread and I'll let you know. * For some reason I'm missing a small number of people, but I've got about 98 percent of them in my database. If you died and your body was recovered, here are the ships that recovered you, based on your body ID number: MB CS Mackay-Bennett (bodies 1306) M CS Minia (bodies 307323) MM CGS Montmagny (bodies 326329) A SS Algerine (body 330) O RMS Oceanic (bodies 331333) I SS Ilford (body 334) OT SS Ottawa [57] (body 335) If you survived, you can go here to see the story of your particular lifeboat. Hard lifeboats were labeled 1 through 16, and four collapsible lifeboats were labeled A through D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifebo..._the_lifeboats Last edited by Rain Man; 02-16-2019 at 09:00 PM.. |
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02-17-2019, 08:06 PM | #151 | |
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Apparently there were 22 crew members (cooks and stewards) in lifeboat #13. I lived to a ripe age of 87 after a career as a cook on merchant ships. I also served for four years in WWI and was awarded the Merchant Seaman Medal for my services. There is a lot more about my life here. It is interesting that Alfred died in February of 1961, about 5 months before I was born. So maybe I really am him reincarnated? https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...windebank.html Here is a picture of Alfred later in life holding up a "lucky" #13 sign.
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You were an engineer in Finland, and decided to visit your cousin in America. But it was a fateful decision, and you would not survive the journey.
His second-class ticket cost 13 pounds, or 4 times the monthly salary of the stewards. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...collander.html Name Collander, Mr. Erik Gustaf Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered Gender Male Age 27 Home Helsinki, Finland, Russian Empire Embarkation Southampton Destination Ashtabula, Ohio, US Passenger Class 2nd Class Crew Department Unknown Crew Job Unknown
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You survived, but it was probably more your parents' doing than yours.
You were on the ship with your dad, mom, and your two-month old sister, and you were immigrating from London to ... wait for it ... wait for it ... Wichita, Kansas. (They were going so the father could co-own a tobacco store with a relative.) Interestingly, you weren't supposed to be on the Titanic, but had to transfer from another ship due to that pesky coal strike. I remember another of our passengers had the same bad luck. Bertram survived along with his wife and sister, but his father didn't make it. After landing in New York, they eventually retreated back to London. Bertram ended up working for a shipbuilder and liked talking about the Titanic, though I'm not sure that he'd have a great story to tell. His little sister Milvina was the last Titanic survivor to pass away, in 2009. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...vere-dean.html Name Dean, Master Bertram Vere Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 10 Gender Male Age 1 Home Bartley Farm, Hampshire, England Embarkation Southampton Destination Wichita, Kansas, US Passenger Class 3rd Class Crew Department Unknown Crew Job Unknown
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02-17-2019, 08:33 PM | #154 |
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Which ship recovered infant Corvus Lestrange? His sister, Leta, swapped him for infant Aurelius Dumbledore before the Titanic went down.
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The good news is that you survived. The Swedes seemed to have a knack for survival. But you only survived the sinking. You had an interesting story. You, your wife, and another couple that you were friends with were on the ship as it was about to go down. The stern was rising and you were climbing to the top when it got too steep. You slid back down, and ended up in the water. As the ship went down, you ended up near Collapsible Lifeboat A. You and the other guy climbed aboard, and you tried to pull the other guy's wife aboard, but couldn't do it. You lost your wife in the water. Unfortunately, after being in the water, you were chilled, and you died of exposure in the barely floating life raft. To lighten the ship, your body was released overboard. But as you died, you dropped your wedding ring into the bottom of the boat. It was found after the rescue, and is a frequent display item today. A lot of these stories are sad. Name Lindell, Mr. Edvard Bengtsson Outcome Survived, Lifeboat A Gender Male Age 36 Home Helsingborg, Skεne, Sweden Embarkation Southampton Destination Hartford, Connecticut, US Passenger Class 3rd Class Crew Department Unknown Crew Job Unknown
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02-17-2019, 08:57 PM | #156 |
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Crap, and I just bought a ****ing boat!
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You would have been really popular if you had packed it.
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I can't die on the Titanic - I'm still circling Germany on a B-17.
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I like your optimism.
Oh, hey! You're dead, but you're an interesting story. You were part of the guarantee crew. These were the guys who were traveling specifically on the maiden voyage to fix things that were "first-time shakout" things. They were not part of the crew, but they were employees of the White Star Line, so they're listed as both crew and passengers. You were apparently a very strong electrician, which led to you being selected for this crew despite your young age. (Note: other sources list you as being 18.) Unfortunately, your brilliance did not allow you to survive the Titanic Incident. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...gs-watson.html Name Watson, Mr. Ennis Hastings Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered Gender Male Age 15 Home Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Embarkation Belfast Destination New York City Passenger Class 2nd Class Crew Department Guarantee Crew Crew Job Electrician's Apprentice
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Name Bristow, Mr. Robert Charles Outcome Dead - Body Recovered - No. 290MB Gender Male Age 31 Home Southampton, Hampshire, England Embarkation Southampton Destination Unknown Passenger Class Unknown Crew Department Victualing Crew Crew Job Third Class Steward
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