Hypothetical: If you were aboard the Titanic.

[Rain Man]

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 1–306)
M – CS Minia (bodies 307–323)
MM – CGS Montmagny (bodies 326–329)
A – SS Algerine (body 330)
O – RMS Oceanic (bodies 331–333)
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

[Coochie liquor]

Please allow me aboard this unsinkable vessel...

[RealSNR]

I'm a man, but please don't assign me Kathy Bates

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

I'm in, and if it helps any I'll tell Rose to move the **** over and make room!

Okay, we're back and sinking again, which is bad news for you.

Name Meyer, Mr. August
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Harrow, London, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by big nasty kcnut

In. male.

Well, you didn't make it, but I bet you got a glimpse of Guggenheim during your day job.

Name Abbott, Mr. Ernest Owen
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 21
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job First Class Lounge Pantry Steward

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Roll them please.

We're on a bad streak. Second class must have been late to the deck.

Name Linnane, Mr. John
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 61
Home Chelsea, Michigan, US
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Chelsea, Michigan, US
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

There appears to be some confusion about the spelling of your name. And in a move that stinks, you were supposed to go transatlantic earlier on a different ship, but the salespeople talked you into waiting for the brand new Titanic.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...n-lingane.html

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Chief Northman

I am aboard! Male.

For the record I detest Celine Dion even if I’m Canadian.

Senior Sixth Engineer seems like a high rank for a young fellow like yourself. Unfortunately, it didn't help you float.

Name Moyes, Mr. William Young
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 23
Home Stirling, Scotland
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Senior Sixth Engineer

You were the captain of your rugby team in school, but that wasn't enough to save you.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...ung-moyes.html

I will leave you with a song. "Neeear, Faaaaar, Whereeeeeever You Are...."

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by stevieray

oh this should be good.

Well, the bad news is that you died. But the good news is that you didn't have to clean the bathrooms after that.

Name Major, Mr. Thomas Edgar
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 35
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Bath Steward

You also managed to pass along your genes, since you were married and had a daughter back home. So that's a win.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...gar-major.html

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

DON'T GO RAIN MAN!!!!! DON'T GO!!!!!! HOLD ON!!!!

Man, we're on a bad run here.

Name Phillips, Mr. John George "Jack"
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 25
Home Godalming, Surrey, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Telegraphist

And I hate to say it, but the whole sinking is kind of your fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_P...eless_officer)

[shakesthecat]

Hit me

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by WhiteWhale

Was going to make joke, then realized joke is entire theme of thread. Doh

Finally, a survivor! You were one of the coal workers down in the hull, so I'm guessing you knew how serious it was.

Your story is here: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...ry-cavell.html

You just ended up in the right place at the right time, getting aboard the most crowded lifeboat late in the game.

Name Cavell, Mr. George Henry
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 15
Gender Male
Age 22
Home Sholing Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis

I never survive your simulations. Might as well kill me again.

Your streak continues.

You were just on your way to a new job in America, to live the great immigrant story.

Name Somerton, Mr. Francis William
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 30
Home Greatfield, Cheltenham, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Canastota, New York, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Sofa King]

Hook me up!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I’m a dude.

You're not just a dude, you're a dude who survived the Titanic.

Name Frauenthal, Mr. Isaac Gerald
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 5
Gender Male
Age 43
Home London, England, UK
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York, New York, US
Passenger Class 1st Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

You were a well to do lawyer, and you were returning from vacation with your brother, a well to do doctor, and his new wife. The three of you climbed into Lifeboat 5, which launched relatively early in the process.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...rauenthal.html

[KS Smitty]

They did this at the Titanic display at Union Station in KC. My daughter drew the old man that was depicted in the movie as staying in the room with his wife when Titanic went down.

Female please.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor

Please allow me aboard this unsinkable vessel...

You got on, and you also got back off. Nice work.

Name Jonsson, Mr. Carl
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 15
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Kalfsnäs, Småland, Sweden
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Huntley, Illinois, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

It appears that you were a bit of a liar, though. Your sister in law somehow got the story that you were rescued like Rose Dawson, floating on a piece of wood, but it was documented that you were on Lifeboat 15.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...l-jonsson.html

And in an even bigger jerk move, you gave speeches later in life about how you survived by swimming to Collapsible Lifeboat A. However, that was done by another rescued Swede named Carl Jansson, and you stole his story.

(On that note, what are the odds of two rescued people being named Carl Jonsson and Carl Jansson?)

https://www.geni.com/people/Carl-Jon...00016213591825