Titanic Class system

**sandman55** · 12-26-2008, 05:27 AM

If you were first class on the Titanic you had a better chance of survival The table below didn't copy too well but you can see it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic under the heading "Survivors, victims and statistics"

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Survivors, victims and statistics

See also: Maritime disasters, List of passengers on board RMS Titanic, and List of crew members on board RMS Titanic

Category Number Aboard Number of Survivors Percentage That Survived Number Lost Percentage That Were Lost
First Class 329 199 60.5 % 130 39.5 %
Second Class 285 119 41.7 % 166 58.3 %
Third Class 710 174 24.5 % 536 75.5 %
Crew 899 214 23.8 % 685 76.2 %
Total 2,223 706 31.8 % 1,517 68.2 %
New York Herald front page about the Titanic disaster.

Of a total of 2,223 people aboard the Titanic only 706 survived the disaster and 1,517 perished.[31] The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia in the −2 °C (28 °F) water. Men and members of the lower classes were less likely to survive. 92 percent of the men perished in second class. Third class passengers fared very badly.

Six of the seven children in first class and all of the children in second class were saved, whereas only a 34 percent were saved in third class. Nearly every first-class woman survived, compared with 86 percent of those in second class and less than half of those in third class. Over all, only 20 percent of the men survived. First-class men were four times as likely to survive as second-class men, and twice as likely to survive as third-class men.

**WereBo** · 12-26-2008, 05:48 AM

Of course, that could never happen now, since our politicians did away with the 'Class System'

**sandman55** · 12-27-2008, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by WereBo

Of course, that could never happen now, since our politicians did away with the 'Class System'

Whew!!! That's reassuring.

**beefers1** · 12-27-2008, 11:27 AM

but you can still buy "fourth" and even "fifth" class on ships, can't you?

Mcninjaguy · 12-27-2008, 02:23 PM

you can buy this baby!

this class of ship is what i like call a antique fixer upper!

**WereBo** · 12-27-2008, 03:42 PM

I don't know why, but as soon as I saw that pic, I had a flashback to the end-scene of 'The Italian Job' classic.....

12-26-2008, 05:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,461 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Titanic Class system Of course, that could never happen now, since our politicians did away with the 'Class System' __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

12-27-2008, 11:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
beefers1 Below is my avatar Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Greater Vancouver area, BC, Canada Posts: 4,033 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System Blog Entries: 13	Re: Titanic Class system but you can still buy "fourth" and even "fifth" class on ships, can't you? __________________

12-27-2008, 03:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,461 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Titanic Class system I don't know why, but as soon as I saw that pic, I had a flashback to the end-scene of 'The Italian Job' classic..... __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.