Hypothetical: If you were aboard the Titanic.

[Rain Man]

Would you have lived or died? Find out here and I'll let you know.

Tell me if you want to be a man, or if you'll take on the role of either gender, and I'll roll the dice for you and assign you a real person who was on the ship.* (If you're a woman, let me know too and I can give you a female dice roll.) If you don't tell me, I'll assume you're a guy.

I'll let you know the person's name, age, origin, embarkation point, destination, passenger class if they were a passenger, and their department and job if they were on the crew. In some cases we don't know so you'll get a blank, but the information is pretty good.

Oh, and if you were a passenger your crew stuff will come back as unknown, and vice versa if you were crew. There was a small handful of people who were both passengers and crew. The ship's orchestra and the Guarantee Workers were the two groups listed in both classes. (Guarantee workers were the expert repair guys who were assigned to the maiden voyage to make repairs of anything new that was broken. They apparently didn't have expertise in major hull repairs.)

You're then welcome to look up more detail about the person if you can find it. Some of them have interesting stories.

So sign up in the thread and I'll let you know.


* For some reason I'm missing a small number of people, but I've got about 98 percent of them in my database.

If you died and your body was recovered, here are the ships that recovered you, based on your body ID number:

MB – CS Mackay-Bennett (bodies 1–306)
M – CS Minia (bodies 307–323)
MM – CGS Montmagny (bodies 326–329)
A – SS Algerine (body 330)
O – RMS Oceanic (bodies 331–333)
I – SS Ilford (body 334)
OT – SS Ottawa [57] (body 335)

If you survived, you can go here to see the story of your particular lifeboat. Hard lifeboats were labeled 1 through 16, and four collapsible lifeboats were labeled A through D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifebo..._the_lifeboats

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by RedRaider56

roll the dice, kind sir.

Oops. Not every bartender made it.

Name McMullin, Mr. James
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

In and I’m a guy.

Well, at least they were able to give you a nice funeral.

Name Robins, Mr. Alexander A.
Outcome Dead - Body Recovered - No. 119MB
Gender Male
Age 50
Home St Austell, Cornwall , England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Yonkers, New York, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Wallcrawler]

In. Guy.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

In. Guy.

They found you pretty quickly. Not quickly enough, but ... quickly.

Name Evans, Mr. Williams
Outcome Dead - Body Recovered - No. 31MB
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

[EPodolak]

I'll go.

If I don't make it I hope I played in the orchestra. It's a noble and poetic end, sinking into an inky, watery blackness that way...

[Frazod]

I already did this at the museum in Branson.

I didn't make it.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Who says that 13 is an unlucky number? And how did you get on board as an assistant cook? Very clever work.

Name Wildebank, Mr. Alfred E.
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 13
Gender Male
Age 39
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Asst. Cook

Yes, the first survivor!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by EPodolak

I'll go.

If I don't make it I hope I played in the orchestra. It's a noble and poetic end, sinking into an inky, watery blackness that way...

Good job by the Chinese guy. I wonder if he even knew any English to understand what was happening. And maybe he played an instrument.

Name Cheong, Mr. Foo
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat C
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Hong Kong , China
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Frazod

I already did this at the museum in Branson.

I didn't make it.

We'll give you another try.

Nope, you're doomed. But how accurate was I on the destination? I bet this guy would have lived in your house.

Name Strilić, Mr. Ivan
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 27
Home Široka Kula , Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Chicago, Illinois, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

[EPodolak]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Good job by the Chinese guy. I wonder if he even knew any English to understand what was happening. And maybe he played an instrument.

Name Cheong, Mr. Foo
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat C
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Hong Kong , China
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

Yay. Screw that iceberg.

[old_geezer]

Count me in (or down for the count most likely).

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

We'll give you another try.

Nope, you're doomed. But how accurate was I on the destination? I bet this guy would have lived in your house.

Name Strilić, Mr. Ivan
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 27
Home Široka Kula , Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Chicago, Illinois, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

DAMMIT CARL

[Chief Roundup]

I'm in. I am a guy but since this is all hypothetical and all that you can roll me as a female to make things easier.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by old_geezer

Count me in (or down for the count most likely).

You survived to trim again. You were in the most comfortable lifeboat as well, albeit not without controversy.

Name Sheath, Mr. Frederick
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 1
Gender Male
Age 20
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

[old_geezer]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You survived to trim again. You were in the most comfortable lifeboat as well, albeit not without controversy.

Name Sheath, Mr. Frederick
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 1
Gender Male
Age 20
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

Actually I prefer the title "Fluffer", but thanks for the save.