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Remember Titanic's passengers and crew

A memorial in data: every person aboard, a searchable roll, and the careful definitions behind each count.

Select a class or crew group to see its counts and find those names in the roll.

15 April 1912 / the people aboard

2,208 lives.

Each mark represents one person. ● Lost ○ Saved

249 people who left before the sinking are not shown in these blocks; they remain in the roll as part of the ship’s journey.

The memorial roll.

Names, work, journeys and outcomes. Read a biography to look beyond the counts.

Showing 24 of 2,457 names.

  1. Anthony Abbing, 42, blacksmith, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  2. Ernest Owen Abbott, 21, lounge pantry steward, victualling crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  3. Eugene Joseph Abbott, 14, scholar, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  4. Rossmore Edward Abbott, 16, jeweller, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  5. Rhoda Mary (Rosa) Abbott, 39, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  6. Karen Marie Abelseth, 16, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  7. Olaus Jørgensen Abelseth, 25, farmer, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  8. Samuel Abelson, 30, 2nd class passenger, boarded at Cherbourg. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  9. Hannah Abelson, 28, 2nd class passenger, boarded at Cherbourg. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  10. Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson, 20, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  11. Mary Sophie Halaut Abrahim, 18, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Cherbourg. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  12. William Thomas Abrams, 33, fireman, engineering crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  13. Mauritz Nils Martin Ådahl, 30, general labourer, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  14. John Adams, 26, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  15. Robert John Adams, 26, fireman, engineering crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  16. Percy Snowden Ahier, 20, saloon steward, victualling crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  17. Johanna Persdotter Ahlin, 40, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  18. Albert Edward Akerman, 31, 3rd class steward, victualling crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  19. Joseph Francis Akerman, 35, assistant pantryman steward, victualling crew, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  20. Frank Philip Aks, 10 months, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  21. Leah Aks, 18, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  22. Nassef Cassem Albimona, 26, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Cherbourg. Saved. (opens in a new tab)
  23. Charles Augustus Aldworth, 30, chauffeur, 2nd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)
  24. William Alexander, 23, general labourer, 3rd class passenger, boarded at Southampton. Lost. (opens in a new tab)

A journey in four ports.

  1. Belfast 415 boarded here 198 still aboard at the sinking
  2. Southampton 1647 boarded here 1615 still aboard at the sinking
  3. Cherbourg 272 boarded here 272 still aboard at the sinking
  4. Queenstown (now Cobh) 123 boarded here 123 still aboard at the sinking
These are boarding records, not a running count of people aboard after each departure.

Keep the children visible.

Age 16 and over
1422 lost · 644 saved
Age not recorded
8 lost · 0 saved
Children under 16
66 lost · 68 saved
Children means under 16. Unknown ages stay separate; lost is filled and saved is outlined.
See the children’s names in the roll

Recorded lifeboat associations.

Not recorded 101
13 54
15 52
11 43
C 42
14 39
4 39
3 36
9 35
5 34
10 31
16 31
8 27
7 26
6 23
D 21
12 19
B 19
2 18
1 12
A 10
Saved people, grouped by their recorded boat. These are not launch counts or capacities; unknown associations remain visible.

A ticket could cover more than one person.

First class

£39.6

Median recorded ticket fare

185 distinct ticket/fare entries

Second class

£13

Median recorded ticket fare

190 distinct ticket/fare entries

Third class

£7.9

Median recorded ticket fare

547 distinct ticket/fare entries
Fares are converted to decimal pounds and deduplicated within each class. A repeated shared ticket is not each person’s individual fare.
Children and recorded ages
Age group Lost Saved Saved share
Age 16 and over 1422 644 31.2%
Age not recorded 8 0 0.0%
Children under 16 66 68 50.7%
The recorded boarding route
Boarding point All records Aboard at sinking
Belfast 415 198
Southampton 1647 1615
Cherbourg 272 272
Queenstown (now Cobh) 123 123
People saved, by recorded lifeboat
Lifeboat People saved
Not recorded 101
13 54
15 52
11 43
C 42
14 39
4 39
3 36
9 35
5 34
10 31
16 31
8 27
7 26
6 23
D 21
12 19
B 19
2 18
1 12
A 10
Recorded fares by passenger class
Class Median £ Distinct ticket/fare records Minimum £ Maximum £
1st Class Passenger 39.6 185 5 512.33
2nd Class Passenger 13 190 7.85 73.5
3rd Class Passenger 7.9 547 3.17 69.55

Make it your own

Everything that makes it.

Start with the complete CSV. Filter Status to Victim or Survivor for the people aboard. In a spreadsheet pivot, use PassengerType as rows, Status as columns and Count of PassengerName as values. Keep “Not aboard at the sinking” in your source sheet, outside that pivot.

Read the records with care

  1. Define who is being counted

    “Not aboard at the sinking” includes Belfast delivery crew and cross-channel passengers who left at Cherbourg or Queenstown. Keep these records in the roll, but exclude them from loss and survival rates. Their presence in the full file is not a third outcome among those aboard.

  2. Keep unknowns visible

    A blank age is not zero. Divide an age ending in m by 12 before comparing it with an age in years. This guide defines children as under 16 and shows unknown ages separately; another threshold would produce a different count.

  3. Understand tickets and lifeboats

    Convert a fare with pounds + shillings / 20 + pence / 240. For example, £7 11s is £7.55. A ticket can cover several people, so a repeated ticket fare is not each person's price. The fare chart deduplicates recorded ticket/fare strings within each class and excludes missing fares.

    Lifeboat counts include only people recorded as saved and group by their recorded boat. “Not recorded” remains visible. These are not launch counts, capacities or a complete account of transfers between boats.

Sources and limitations

The dataset credits Encyclopedia Titanica (opens in a new tab) and Wikipedia's passenger list (opens in a new tab). Each roll entry links to the Encyclopedia Titanica biography. Names are stored as SURNAME, Title Given; the display reorders them for reading.

Sources can differ over identities, duplicate or alternative names, who traveled on which leg, crew categories and later corrections. These charts reproduce this dataset's scope rather than claim a universal final count. Review biographies and original evidence when a detail matters.

The boarding route is Belfast → Southampton → Cherbourg → Queenstown (now Cobh). Counts at a port mean people who boarded there, not the number aboard after departure.

Questions for a respectful lesson

What can the class and crew comparisons tell us?

They describe recorded outcomes within groups. They do not isolate causes or tell the story of an individual's decisions. What other evidence would help explain differences without making assumptions about the people?

How could we investigate “women and children first”?

This file has age but no sex field. Do not infer sex from names or titles. Use the British and American inquiry transcripts (opens in a new tab) as primary evidence, and distinguish a stated practice from what happened in specific accounts.

Why retain the people who left before the sinking?

They belong to the ship's recorded journey. Keeping them visible while excluding them from outcome rates respects both their history and the denominator.

Behind every row is a person, a family and a life beyond this voyage.

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What each record contains

Explore the dataset and its sources. These fields are in the complete download.

FieldHow to read it
PassengerName SURNAME, Title Given. The roll reorders this for reading without changing the download.
Age Years as text; m means months (10m is ten months). Blank means not recorded, not zero.
Status Victim, Survivor, or Not aboard at the sinking. The roll uses Lost and Saved in prose.
PassengerType Passenger class or crew department. Crew are not a fourth passenger class.
BoardPoint Belfast, Southampton, Cherbourg or Cobh; the page labels Cobh as Queenstown (now Cobh).
Job Recorded occupation or shipboard role; may be blank.
Ticket Ticket identifier and recorded fare in pounds, shillings and pence; may cover more than one person.
Lifeboat Boat associated with the biography, if recorded; not a boat capacity.
Url Encyclopedia Titanica biography link.

Working with the download? Convert CSV to JSON, or turn a column into a list with the comma separator.

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