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She would have headed back to England, to her home port of Southampton with another load of passengers, mostly Americans heading to Europe on holiday, and returning immigrants heading back to their own countries.
The RMS Titanic was the biggest ship of it's time. There were around 2,200 passengers on board the Titanic and when she hit an iceberg and sank only around 700 passengers lived and around 1,500 died! xxx
Only one vessel, the Carpathia, went to the disaster site but was too late to save Titanic, only saving 712 of her passengers.
The Titanic was built in Ireland. Before setting out on its fateful voyage it sailed to England and then France and then back to Ireland in April 1912.
Pretty much all of the first and second class passengers were up on deck, but most of the third class steerage passengers were not allowed up on deck because most people back then had petty, nasty class distinctions.
The DSV Alvin was developed long before the Titanic wreck. It was commissioned back in 1964, and to date has made over 4,400 dives. It was specifically designed for deep sea exploration, and can house the pilot and two passengers. Its use when it explored the Titanic has given it notoriety.
Carpathias passengers were incredibly helpful. They voluntarily donated much of their spare clothing, for example. They also did not interfere with the ships change-of-plans. The vessel was heading towards the Mediterranean and Capt. Rostron turned her around back to New York.
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The vast majority would have been British and Irish with a few americans. The first class was people was almost entirely wealthy British passengers that were going on the Titanic there and back to England as a holiday cruise. Second class were just the same but there were more american's who went to England to return on the Titanic's maiden voyage. Third Class passengers were almost all Irish who boarded the titanic to find a new life in the high economy of America
Some of the most famous Titanic passengers were Colonel John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest men in the world back then, Molly Brown, she threatened to push a Titanic officer out of the lifeboat since he refused to rescue people floating in the water, and Jack Thayer, a 17 year old who managed to swim to the overturned collapsible 4. Colonel Astor: Crushed to death by Fallon funnel on the Titanic. Molly Brown: Survived Jack Thayer: Survived Colonel Astor: Crushed to death by falling funnel while the Titanic sank. Molly B