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

[Cntrygal]

Am I too late to join in?!?! (FEMALE)

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cntrygal

Am I too late to join in?!?! (FEMALE)

This is not a good time to be poor, Miss Donohoe.

It looks like you were part of a big traveling party from your awkwardly named homeland. Three out of your group of 16 survived.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...t-donohoe.html

Donohoe, Miss Bridget
Dead - Body Not Recovered
Female
21
Cum, Mayo , Ireland
Queenstown
Chicago, Illinois, US
3rd Class
Unknown
Unknown

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'll roll for myself now and see how it works out.

I made it! I was a successful Realtor returning from my honeymoon to New York in 1st class with my wife. We easily boarded Lifeboat 5 early in the process and apparently most of the people didn't even think it was a serious problem at that point.

Even though I did nothing wrong, it sounds like there was some stigma against male survivors, though, which bothered me for a long time and I wouldn't talk about the sinking.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...es-harder.html

Name Harder, Mr. George Achilles
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 5
Gender Male
Age 25
Home New York, New York, US
Embarkation Cherbourg
Destination New York, New York, US
Passenger Class 1st Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

**** the haters. Lifeboat 5 for the win!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

**** the haters. Lifeboat 5 for the win!

High five for Lifeboat Five!

[dmahurin]

Roll me in

[Otter]

All Aboard!

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

High five for Lifeboat Five!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by dmahurin

Roll me in

The number of food service workers on the ship is pretty amazing. They had great customer service back then. Oh, and you died and your body was never found.

We don't know much about you other than you lived a life at sea from a young age.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...es-ransom.html

Name Ransom, Mr. James
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 33
Home Bristol, Avon, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Otter

All Aboard!

You were a farm kid headed to New York to build a new life with your uncle. You didn't make it.

It's kind of cool that you were born in a town called Ystradyfodwg, though. Can anyone give me a tip on pronouncing that?

Name Willey, Mr. Edward
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 18
Home Market Drayton, Shropshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Schenectady, New York, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Hydrae]

Ahoy captain. Requesting permission to board this fine vessel.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

still going? Male

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Hydrae

Ahoy captain. Requesting permission to board this fine vessel.

You were a metallurgist and entrepreneur on your way to a business meeting in San Francisco. You were supposed to leave on a different liner a week earlier, but a coal strike caused problems, forcing you to move your ticket back. That's a tough break.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...es-julian.html

Name Julian, Mr. Henry Forbes
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 50
Home Torquay, Devon, England, UK
Embarkation Southampton
Destination San Francisco, US
Passenger Class 1st Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

still going? Male

Here's something interesting. You served on the Olympic for several years, which is the ship that Henry Julian was scheduled to be on before the strike. (See the previous post.) But you were talked into transferring to the Titanic, with negative results.

And the other stewards were only called Stewards. You're a second-class steward. Is that a higher job or not as high, or does it just mean that you were assigned to second-class passengers? And if so, were the others all assigned to first class or third class?

Edit: it looks like if you were just called a "saloon steward", you were working in third class. The other two classes are distinctly named according to which class they served.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...omas-wood.html

Name Wood, Mr. J.T.
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 40
Home London, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Second Class Saloon Steward

[Bugeater]

Did my wife survive?

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Here's something interesting. You served on the Olympic for several years, which is the ship that Henry Julian was scheduled to be on before the strike. (See the previous post.) But you were talked into transferring to the Titanic, with negative results.

And the other stewards were only called Stewards. You're a second-class steward. Is that a higher job or not as high, or does it just mean that you were assigned to second-class passengers? And if so, were the others all assigned to first class or third class?

Edit: it looks like if you were just called a "saloon steward", you were working in third class. The other two classes are distinctly named according to which class they served.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...omas-wood.html

Name Wood, Mr. J.T.
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 40
Home London, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Second Class Saloon Steward

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