Crew & Passengers

BACKGROUND:

The ship had a maximum capacity of 3,547 people, however, it held 2,240. Still, if fewer people had boarded, the ship wouldn't have broken up in two pieces and been as catastrophic as it was. Passengers were split up into 3 classes; first/upper class, which was for businessmen, politicians, professional athletes, bankers, etc. Second class passengers were authors, professors, tourists & third classes were primarily immigrants moving from Europe to United & Canada.

CREW:

• Total of 908 crew members boarded the ship.

• Out of those 908, 696 people passed away due to the wreck, leaving 76% dead.

• Edward Smith was one of the most significant people on the entire ship, due to him being the captain.

• 8 architects died just in the process of building the ship.

PASSENGERS:

• The world's supposedly "richest man", John Jacob Astor IV, with a total of $150 million was a passenger on the Titanic. He did not survive and it is suspected that $6 million worth of his belongings sunk.

• Margaret Brown, aka "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", was one of the most impactful passengers on the ship. It was her idea to send the lifeboats back to back to load more and more passengers. Without her, the number of people that didn't survive would have been much higher.

• The youngest person aboard was Milivina Dean. Born 2 months before the trip, on February 2nd, 1912, she was the longest-living passenger on the Titanic. She just recently died in 2009.

• Around 1300 passengers were onboard and 800 died, leaving close to 38% alive.