Passenger Lists
A printed passenger list was delivered to first- and second-class cabins after the ship had sailed. The first-class lists reads like a Who's Who, an ambitious mothers searched it for eligible bachelors next to whom, with the help of an understanding steward, their daughters could be seated. Some notable passengers on the Titanic found it necessary to sail under assumed names. "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," for example, were really Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. Lucile Duff-Gordon was celebrated dress designer, and several first-class women on board the Titanic wore "Lucile" gowns during the voyage. Also using aliases were the mistresses of certain wealthy men. The American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim was traveling with his Parisian mistress, a Madame Albert.
Outranking Guggenheim in social prominence was John Jacob Astor, grandson of the wealthy fur trader, and one of the richest men in America. He had fled New York the previous autumn in the wake of the scandal caused by his divorce and subsequent remarriage to a woman younger than his son. Now that his new wife was five months pregnant, they were returning home. The Astors' suite on the Titanic, while luxurious, was not the finest on board. Two deluxe "millionaire's suites" on B-Deck, each a fully fifty feet in length with a private promenade deck, represented the ultimate in Titanic luxury. One was occupied by wealthy American couple, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cardeza of Philadelphia, and the other by the managing director of the White Star Line, J Bruce Ismay, on board his company's new flagship for the maiden crossing to New York.
The Making of History
| Register for Transmission to Registrar-General
of Shipping and Seamen | The Report of
Survey of An Emigrant Ship |
| Titanic's boilers |
Leaving for the New World
| Certificate for Clearance |
Boarding Card | Luggage Stickers |
Steerage - the Aks family |
On Board
| Passenger List | Music
Booklet | Notes for First-Class Passengers
|
| 1st Class Dinner Plate |
| First-Class Lunch Menu | The
"Last Dinner" Menu |
Disaster
| Telegraph transcripts from Titanic intercepted
By SS Birma |
Lifeboats and Carpathia
| Photograph of a Survivor climbing aboard
SS Carpathia | Landing Card |
Aftermath
| Correspondence from the White Star Line
to the Board of Trade concerning loss of Titanic |
| Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Worker's
Union |
| The politician's responce | Commemorative
Medal |
British and American Inquiries
| Sub-committee of the Committee on Commerce
of the United States Senate | A
Report on the Loss of the "Titanic" (S.S) |
| Report on the Senate Committee enquiry
report into the loss of the Titanic |