Titanic ???

Question

How many people survived??

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

On April 10th 1912 the Titanic set sail from Southampton with 2,200 passengers and crew, four days later the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. 1500 people died and 700 survived.

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

711 people survived.  The numbers and percentages of those saved break down as follows:

Children 1st class 6 saved, none lost 100% survived

children 2nd class 20 saved, none lost 100% survived

Women 1st Class 140 saved, 4 lost 97.22% survived

Women Crew 20 saved, 3 lost, 86.96% survived

Women 2nd Class 80 saved, 13 lost, 86.02% survived

Women 3rd class 76 saved, 89 lost, 46.06% survived

Children 3rd class 27 saved, 52 lost, 34.18% survived

Men 1st Class 57 saved, 118 lost, 32.57% survived

Men crew 192 saved, 693 lost, 21.69% survived

Men,  3rd class 75 saved, 387 lost, 16.23% survived

men, 2nd class, 14 saved, 154 lost, 8.33% survived

So as you can see, your worst chance of survival percentage wise if you were on the Titanic was if you were a second class male.  Your best chance if you were a 1st or 2nd class child.

Answer 5

About 714 people survived. Most of the survivors were loaded into lifeboats and lowered to the sea, and thus survived. However, a few of the survivors had to struggle to launch a couple of the "collapsable" lifeboats from the top of the officers' quarters, a place not designed to lower them from. One of these lifeboats would end up washed off the deck upside down, and a number of men would survive by climbing aboard the upside-down boat and balancing for the night.

   A very few others would find themselves in the water as the ship sank. Second Officer Lighttoller, the senior surviving officer, was one of these. He, the wireless operator Harold Bride, and a handful of others managed to reach the upside down boat and climb aboard. Others would cling to what debris they could. Within 20 minutes of the sinking, most of those in the water were dead. Survivors in the other lifeboats  commented on the sound of so many people in the water, then how silence fell.

   All of the lifeboats together could have held about 1100 people. Only about 700 were saved. Why did 400 people die needlessly? Several reasons. First, the crews were not that skilled in launching the boats. During sea trials a select crew usually carried out the lowering the boat drills. Most crewmen never touched the equipment they were supposed to man in case of emergency. This led to a slowing down of the speed in which the boats were lowered. Second, many of the boats were lowered half filled, or less. This was especially true early on, when passengers were reluctant to leave what appeared to be a perfectly safe and warm ship. Also, the officers apparantly didn't realize the boats were designed to be lowered full. They seemed to believe the boats could not take the weight. As the ship came closer to sinking, it became obvious to passengers, and the last boats were launched with full compliments. Finally, who you were played a part in if you had a chance. First class passengers of course had easy access to the boat deck. It wasn't much harder for second class passengers to reach it, but it was the second class male passengers who took the highest hit. And third class passengers were lucky to reach a boat at all. There was some individual efforts by the crew to guide steerage passengers to the boats, but overall,  they were either ignored or actually prevented from going into first class areas. Of course, many of these passengers simply set out on their own and found their way up to the boat deck. How many tried and failed, will not be known.

   And finally, the burden many survivors would have to carry for the rest of their lives. Once the ship sank, there were passengers in many of the lfieboats who suggested that their particular boats go back and search for survivors. In a few cases, the boats were already so full that this was a dangerous idea, and it made sense to not do so. But there were a number of boats which had room for dozens of other passengers. Yet the only boat to go back was that manned by officer Lowe, one of the junior officers. He shifted passengers from between several boats he had collected together, then set back out to pull survivors from the water. By the time he had done so, most of the people in the water had already died of hypothermia. He pulled four people out (because of the moonless night, he found it harder than expected to find people), One of the four died. In the movie Titanic this scene is depicted, with his lifeboat bumping through the field of bodies as it looked for the survivors.

   There are thousands of other facts to know about the Titanic. I've limited this to just a few revolving about people surviving the sinking. If you want a good starting point to learn about the ship and the people, start with Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" and "A Night Lives On". They are easy to read, well illustrated, and provide a fantastic overview of the whole disaster. From there you can follow up with dozens of other books about the Titanic, depending on exactly what you want to know. There's even a cookbook based on the menus offered up on in the ship's first class dining room!

Answer 6

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