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

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by kysirsoze

I'm in! Thanks RM for another awesome thread.

You're in the thread, but not in the lifeboat. Sadly, you perished upon the sea.

As an assistant purser (which is apparently a management position), you made darn good money. You were making 15 pounds per month, while the general stewards made less than four pounds per month. In the end it didn't do you a whole lot of good, though.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...nd-barker.html

Name Barker, Mr. Reginald Lomond
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 40
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Assistant*Purser

[RedRaider56]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Oops. Not every bartender made it.

Name McMullin, Mr. James
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

I bet I was drinking when the cold waters washed over me...

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

I bet I was drinking when the cold waters washed over me...

You might as well. The best stuff, too.

[Sofa King]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

We don't know much about you, other than you didn't make it. I'm curious about your Montana destination.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...van-dimic.html

Name Dimić, Mr. Jovan
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 42
Home Ostrovica, Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Red Lodge, Montana, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

I was going to open a Manx Loaghtan sheep farm. I brought my best 4 on the ship with me. Only the big male "Damian" made it.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by sully1983

If I was on the Titanic, I 'd try to stick it in Kate Winslet's butt.

I’m Jack Dawson & nailed that beauty in the storage area in the backseat of a Ford Model T!

I assumed I survived since I’m young, good looking & quite virile. I’m also very lucky since I won tickets in a poker game.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You're in the thread, but not in the lifeboat. Sadly, you perished upon the sea.

As an assistant purser (which is apparently a management position), you made darn good money. You were making 15 pounds per month, while the general stewards made less than four pounds per month. In the end it didn't do you a whole lot of good, though.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...nd-barker.html

Name Barker, Mr. Reginald Lomond
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 40
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Assistant*Purser

Well ol' Reg had a pretty good run. Died doing what I love. Pursin'.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

No. We both died together in my cabin.

Good. I hated that bitch.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

I’m Jack Dawson & nailed that beauty in the storage area in the backseat of a Ford Model T!

I assumed I survived since I’m young, good looking & quite virile. I’m also very lucky since I won tickets in a poker game.

You were lucky to have a really cool name, but the rest of the cards turned against you.

You're a mystery for the most part. All we know is that you bought a ticket and were headed to Vancouver.

As a general observation, Mr. Dika paid 7.85 pounds for his third class ticket. As a point of comparison, the various stewards working on the ship were commonly paid 3.75 pounds per month. The assistant purser fellow was making 15 pounds per month, which is the highest I've seen so far. So even a third class ticket was an expensive undertaking.


Name Dika, Mr. Mirko
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 17
Home Podgora, Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[threebag]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

I don’t see any packages of White Owls or bullet wounds to the head and torso

[threebag]

Cum Mayo Ireland, looks like there were 14 passengers from there

[Shaid]

ok, I'm in. Roll em.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Sign me up , I just bought a boat last year

[Pitt Gorilla]

In.

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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

You can still buy my widow's book of our last letters to one another: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/hester-pengelly/3663002/

And even though I travelled all over the world and was one of the best metallurgists of my time my proudest accomplishment may have been being a founding member of the Royal Automobile Club. Not that anyone around here would even be allowed in: https://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Shaid

ok, I'm in. Roll em.

Ah. As a trimmer, Mr. Gosling was earning 5.5 pounds per month. Coal handling paid notably more than being a steward.

Still died, though.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...s-gosling.html

Name Gosling, Mr. Bertram James
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 22
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer