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 stumppy

Looks like I helped build the damn thing.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...as-millar.html

By the time of the 1911 census Thomas and his family were resident at 14 Hillman Street, also in the Dock Ward, and he was described as a fitter. He reportedly helped build the engines for both Olympic and Titanic.

Yeah. Um...nice work there.

[God of Thunder]

What if I am a dude, but at the last second, I decide to identify as a woman?

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Okay, let's see if you and your delightful petticoats made it.

Hey, it worked! Nice strategy. You were in the last of the hard lifeboats to get off the ship, and they did a good job of picking up people in the water, so it was pretty crowded and a close call.

Hocking, Mrs. Elizabeth "Eliza" (née Neads)
Survived, Lifeboat 4
Female
54
Penzance, Cornwall, England
Southampton
Akron, Ohio, US
2nd Class
Unknown
Unknown

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by God of Thunder

What if I am a dude, but at the last second, I decide to identify as a woman?

They weren't sophisticated enough then to know. If I draw a completely random name for you...

Nice work on the disguise. You made it, even as a third class passenger.

Lindell, Mrs. Elin Gerda (née Persson)
Survived, Lifeboat A
Female
30
Helsingborg, Skåne , Sweden
Southampton
Hartford, Connecticut, US
3rd Class
Unknown
Unknown

[Rain Man]

Okay, no more sinking tonight. I'll be back tomorrow.

[Amnorix]

I'm in, and if it helps any I'll tell Rose to move the **** over and make room!

[big nasty kcnut]

In. male.

[Pablo]

Roll them please.

[Chief Northman]

I am aboard! Male.

For the record I detest Celine Dion even if I’m Canadian.

[stevieray]

oh this should be good.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Okay, no more sinking tonight. I'll be back tomorrow.

DON'T GO RAIN MAN!!!!! DON'T GO!!!!!! HOLD ON!!!!

[WhiteWhale]

Was going to make joke, then realized joke is entire theme of thread. Doh

[Fat Elvis]

I never survive your simulations. Might as well kill me again.

[Buehler445]

I’m a dude.

[stevieray]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I’m a dude.

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