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The First Class passengers on the Titanic enjoyed unparalleled luxury, from spacious cabins to exquisite dining options. They had access to amenities such as a swimming pool, a gymnasium, and a grand staircase, embodying the height of Edwardian opulence.

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Among the illustrious first-class guests were business magnates, celebrities, and high-ranking officials. Names like John Jacob Astor IV, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isidor Straus were among those who enjoyed the Titanic's lavish accommodations.

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Second Class passengers experienced comfort that rivaled first-class accommodations on other ships. They had access to amenities such as a library and a smoking room, and their dining room was elegantly appointed.

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The Third Class, or steerage, passengers on the Titanic were primarily immigrants heading to the United States for a better life. Conditions were cramped, and amenities were minimal, but the spirit of hope and community was strong among these passengers.

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The crew members aboard the Titanic played various roles, from navigation to serving the passengers. Their dedication and bravery, especially during the sinking, cannot be forgotten. This section pays tribute to all the crew members, from the captain to the stewards.

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The last person rescued. Survived in the waters for over 2 hours. He was so drunk, he barely felt the cold.

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Charles John Joughin ( JOK-in; 3 August 1878 – 9 December 1956) was a British-American chef, known as being the chief baker aboard the RMS Titanic. He survived the ship’s sinking, and became notable for having survived in the frigid water for an exceptionally long time before being pulled onto the overturned Collapsible B lifeboat with virtually no ill effects.

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Captain of the Titanic

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"The Story of Captain Smith & The Titanic" (1992) - British Documentary

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They played music as passengers loaded into lifeboats, helping to calm them down.

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The musicians of the RMS Titanic all perished when the ship sank in 1912. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could, and all went down with the ship. All were recognized for their heroism.

The ship's eight musicians - members of a three-piece ensemble and a five-piece ensemble - were booked through C.W. & F.N. Black, in Liverpool. They boarded at Southampton and traveled as second-class passengers. They were not on the White Star Line's payroll but were contracted to White Star by the Liverpool firm of C.W. & F.N. Black, who placed musicians on almost all British liners. Until the night of the sinking, the players performed as two separate groups: a quintet led by violinist and official bandleader Wallace Hartley, that played at teatime, after-dinner concerts, and Sunday services, among other occasions; and the violin, cello, and piano trio of Georges Krins, Roger Bricoux, and Theodore Brailey, that played at the À La Carte Restaurant and the Café Parisien.

After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, Hartley and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said that Hartley and the band continued to play until the very end. One second-class passenger said:

Many brave things were done that night, but none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame.

Theodore Ronald Brailey (25 October 1887 - 15 April 1912) was an English pianist on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage who died in the disaster.

Theodore Ronald Brailey, born on 25 October 1887 in Walthamstow in Greater London (then part of Essex), was the son of William "Ronald" Brailey, a well-known figure of Spiritualism at the time. He studied piano at school, and one of his first jobs was playing piano in a local hotel.

In 1902, he joined the Royal Lancashire Fusiliers regiment signing for 12 years service as a musician. He was stationed in Barbados but resigned his commission prematurely in 1907. He returned to England and lived at 71 Lancaster Road, Ladbroke Grove, London. In 1911, he enlisted aboard ship, playing first on the RMS Saxonia, prior to joining the Cunard steamer RMS Carpathia in 1912, where he met the French cellist Roger Marie Bricoux. Both men then joined the White Star Line and were recruited by Liverpool music agency C.W. and F.N. Black to serve on the RMS Titanic. Brailey boarded the Titanic on Wednesday 10 April 1912 in Southampton, UK. His ticket number was 250654, the ticket for all the members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra. His cabin was in the second class quarters.

Brailey was 24 years old when he died. His body was never recovered.

Roger Marie Bricoux (1 June 1891 - 15 April 1912) was a French cellist on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He died in the disaster.

Roger Bricoux (in French) was born on 1 June 1891 in rue de Donzy, Cosne-sur-Loire, France. He was the son of a musician, and the family moved to Monaco when he was a young boy. He was educated in various Catholic institutions in Italy. It was during his studies that he joined his first orchestra and won first prize at the Conservatory of Bologna for musical ability. After studying at the Paris Conservatory, he moved to England in 1910 to join the orchestra in the Grand Central Hotel in Leeds. At the end of 1911, he moved to Lille, France, lived at 5 Place du Lion d'Or, and played in various locations throughout the city.

Before joining the Titanic, Bricoux and pianist Theodore Ronald Brailey had served together on the Cunard steamer RMS Carpathia before joining the White Star Line He boarded the Titanic on Wednesday 10 April 1912 in Southampton, UK. His ticket number was 250654, the ticket for all the members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra. His cabin was second class, and he was the only French musician aboard the Titanic.

Bricoux was 20 years old when he died. His body was never recovered.

In 1913, after his apparent disappearance, he was declared a " deserter" by the French army. It was not until 2000 that he was eventually officially registered as dead in France, mainly due to the efforts of the Association Française du Titanic. On 2 November 2000, the same association unveiled a memorial plaque to Bricoux in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire.

Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 - 15 April 1912), an English violinist, was the bandleader on the Titanic. He died in the disaster. His body was recovered by the CS Mackay-Bennett, a cable repair ship owned by the Commercial Cable Company, registered in London.

John Law Hume (9 August 1890 - 15 April 1912) was a Scottish violinist on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He died in the disaster.

John Law Hume (also known as 'Jock') was born on 9 August 1890 in Dumfries, Scotland and lived with his parents at 42 George Street, Dumfries. He had already played on at least five ships before the Titanic. He was recruited to play on the maiden voyage due to his good reputation as a musician.

He boarded the Titanic on Wednesday 10 April 1912 in Southampton, UK. His ticket number was 250654, the ticket for all the members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra. His cabin was in the second class quarters.

Hume was 21 years old when he died, unaware that his fiancée, Mary Costin, was pregnant with his child. His body was recovered by the CS Mackay-Bennett, a cable repair ship owned by the Commercial Cable Company, registered in London. He was buried in grave 193 at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Wednesday 8 May 1912. A memorial was erected for John Law Hume and Thomas Mullin (third class steward) in Dock Park, Dumfries. It reads:

In memory of John Law Hume, a member of the band and Thomas Mullin, steward, natives of

these towns who lost their lives in the wreck of the White Star Liner Titanic which

sank in mid-Atlantic on the 14th day of April 1912. They died at the post of duty.

Hume and the other members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra all belonged to the Amalgamated British Musicians Union and were employed by a Liverpool music agency, C.W. and F.N. Black, which supplied musicians for Cunard and the White Star Line. On 30 April 1912, Jock Hume's father, Andrew, received the following note from the agency:

Dear Sir:

We shall be obliged if you will remit us the sum of 5s. 4d., which is owing to us as per enclosed statement.

We shall also be obliged if you will settle the enclosed uniform account.

Yours faithfully,

The letter caused controversy at the time when it was reprinted in the Amalgamated Musicians Union's monthly newsletter. Andrew Law Hume decided not to settle the bill.

In April 1914 John W. Furness, the violinist of the Canadian liner RMS Empress of Ireland made a pilgrimage with Anglican Church officials to visit the grave of John Law Hume at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia and pay his respects, little knowing that Furness himself would perish in a shipwreck only a few weeks later when Empress of Ireland sank on 29 May 1914.

Georges Alexandre Krins (18 March 1889 - 15 April 1912) was a Belgian violinist on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He died in the disaster.

Georges Alexandre Krins was born on 18 March 1889 in Paris, France. His family was from Belgium, and soon after his birth they moved back there to the town of Spa. He first studied at Academie de Musique de Spa. He then moved to the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liège, Belgium, where he studied from 30 October 1902 until 1908, when he won first prize for violin, with the highest distinction.

As a young man he wanted to join the army; however, his parents persuaded him otherwise. He worked in his father's shop and played in La Grande Symphonie, Spa. In 1910, he moved to Paris to be first violin at Le Trianon Lyrique. He subsequently moved to London and played for two years at the Ritz Hotel until March 1912. He lived at 10 Villa Road, Brixton, London and became bandmaster of the Trio String Orchestra, which played near the Café Français. This led to his being recruited by CW & FN Black, Liverpool to play on the Titanic.

He boarded the Titanic on Wednesday 10 April 1912 in Southampton, UK. His ticket number was 250654, the ticket for all the members of Wallace Hartley's orchestra. His cabin was second class, and he was the only Belgian musician aboard the Titanic. After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, Krins and his fellow band members assembled in the first class lounge and started playing music to help keep the passengers calm. They later moved to the forward half of the boat deck, where they continued to play as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Krins was 23 years old when he died. His body was never recovered.

Two documentary films have been made about the Titanic's band.

Books written specifically about the Titanic' s musicians include:

Steve Turner's nonfiction book, The Band that Played On: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the Titanic (2011)

Christopher Ward's non-fiction book, And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal (2011), which became a Sunday Times bestseller and was made into a documentary for the Discovery Channel titled, Titanic: The Aftermath (2012). The book details the story of Ward's grandfather, Jock Hume.

Erik Fosnes Hansen's fiction book Psalm at Journey's End, tells the story about the individual musicians that ended their careers and lives on the Titanic.

Chamber music ensemble I Salonisti performs Titanic repertoire on the album And the Band Played On (Music Played on the Titanic) (1997), including the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. The White Star orchestra played this famous piece from Mascagni's opera after dinner in Titanic's lounge on 10 April 1912, according to passenger Father Browne.

Minimalist work The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-1972) by composer Gavin Bryars is meant to recreate how the music performed by the band would reverberate through the water some time after they ceased performing.

Harry Chapin's album Dance Band on the Titanic (1977) is dedicated to the Titanic's ensembles and contains a song titled "Dance Band on the Titanic"

The album Titanic: Music As Heard On The Fateful Voyage (1997), by Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra, recreates songs played aboard the Titanic the night the ship foundered, and includes detailed liner notes about the music and excursion

The 1997 musical , with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway, is set on the ocean liner. It swept the 1997 musical Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including the award for Best Musical and Best Score (Yeston's second for both). It ran for 804 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Remarkably, the musical itself did not mention the heroism of the band at all.

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The musicians of the RMS Titanic all perished when the ship sank in 1912. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could, and all went down with the ship. All were recognized for their heroism.

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Elsie and her sister survived. Adjusted for inflation, her ticket cost roughly $3,561.

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Miss Elsie Doling was born at Oriental Place in Southampton, Hampshire. England on 30 November 1893. ¹

She was the daughter of John Doling (1855-1941), a Temperance hotel proprietor, and the former Augusta Lucretia Parker (1856-1923), Hampshire natives who were married in 1876.

One of a dozen known ² children, Elsie's siblings were: John Thomas (1877-1938), Mary Elizabeth (1878-1979), Percy (1880-1961), Verna Augusta (1881-1967), Edward Charles (b. 1884), Alfred Ernest (1885-1886), Ethel Florence (b. 1887), Violet (1889-1890), Gladys (1896-1897), Harold Victor (1897-1976) and Lillian Alexandra (1901-1902). By 1911 the family lived at Spring Bank, The Crescent in Shirley.

Elsie's eldest brother John, then manager of the Atlantic Hotel at 151 Albert Road in Southampton, was married to the former Ada Julia Elizabeth Bone; several of Ada's siblings, including her mother, had migrated to New York in the previous decade and Mrs Doling had planned a trip to visit them. It was decided that Elsie would accompany her sister-in-law to New York, so the pair secured second-class passage aboard the Titanic (joint ticket number 231919 which cost £23). It has been speculated that Ada and Elsie were travelling with music dealer Henry Price Hodges.

When the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Elsie, Ada and an unidentified male passenger ³ were photographed on the aft-promenade deck. The photograph was printed in newspapers after the disaster.

Saved From The Titanic
The sinking of the great ship, the Titanic, on Monday, has caused grave apprehensions to George Bone, of the Graves estate. Mr. Bone's sister, Mrs. Ada Doling, and his sister-in-law, Miss Elsie Doling, had taken passage with the Intention of spending a few weeks with him inn this country. From the published accounts of the survivors on the Carpathia the names of Doling appears, and there is no doubt that both of the women were saved from a watery grave. - The Irvington Gazette, 19 April 1912

Ada and Elsie Doling were rescued from the sinking, but in which lifeboat they departed remains unknown. Aboard the Carpathia, Mrs Doling attempted to send a telegram to Southampton, but it was not transmitted because of the operators' workload.

Express, Southampton, England Ada Elsie safe

Joining their relatives in New York and following a brief visit, Elsie and Ada returned to England aboard the Philadelphia on 11 May 1912 to be reunited with their family.

In the following years, Elsie's path crossed with that of Anglo-Indian physician and WWI Royal Navy veteran William St Alban Hendricks (b. 29 October 1887, possibly in Bombay), who was in the UK advancing his studies at the time. The couple fell in love, and Elsie returned with Hendricks to India, eventually being married in Bombay (modern-day Mumbai) on 6 November 1920.

Dr Hendricks (later MBE) worked as a physician in Gangtok, Kingdom of Sikkim, in the foothills of the Himalayas in what is now north-eastern India's Sikkim State. He and Elsie welcomed four children: William John (1922-2006), Gerald St Alban (1924-2018), Clara (1927-2002) and Elizabeth Mary (b. 1933). The family made numerous trips back to Britain, where, in December 1924, their second child Gerald was born.

In 1949 Elsie and her family resettled in England permanently, with Dr Hendricks becoming a general practitioner in Bitterne, Southampton.

Elsie Doling Hendricks reportedly discussed the Titanic only very rarely. Made a widow upon the death of her husband in 1966, Elsie spent her final years living with her daughter Clara in Lockerley, a village near Romsey in Hampshire, where she died on 3 March 1972 aged 78.

She is buried in the grounds of St John's Church in Lockerley. As of 2019, her youngest child Elizabeth was still alive.

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Biography of Elsie Doling : Titanic Survivor

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The only woman who was found alive in the waters by a returning lifeboat.

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Rhoda Mary Abbott (née Hunt) (14 January 1873 - 18 February 1946) was a passenger on the RMS Titanic. She was the only female passenger who went down with the sinking of the ship and survived.

Abbott was born Rhoda Mary Hunt in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on 14 January 1873, the daughter of Joseph Hunt and his wife Sarah Green Hunt. She grew up in Aylesbury, and spent her early adulthood in St Albans with her family, before moving to the United States in 1894. Upon her arrival in Providence, Rhode Island, she met London-born middleweight champion Stanton Abbott, whom she married soon after in 1895. The couple had two children, Rossmore (born 21 February 1896) and Eugene (born 31 March 1898). She settled as a housewife and mother and was active at the local Grace Episcopal Church, as well as helping around the house.

In 1911, Abbott was divorced from her husband, returned to England with her sons on the RMS Olympic, and started supporting herself and them by working as a sewer, as well as becoming a soldier in The Salvation Army; however, she quickly realized that the boys were not happy living in England and booked a return to America in April 1912. The family boarded the RMS Titanic as third-class passengers in Southampton on 10 April. Onboard, she befriended Amy Stanley, Emily Goldsmith, and May Howard, who had cabins nearby.

On 15 April 1912, the family was already asleep when the Titanic hit an iceberg. By 00:15, they were alerted by a steward to put on life jackets and retreat to the ship's deck. After waiting in line to follow other third-class passengers to the deck, Abbott and her sons waited at the second-class saloon area. There, her son Rossmore is said to have knelt in prayer asking that his mother's life be spared even if he and his brother were not saved. Even though "only women and children" were allowed past the gate, Abbott's sons (aged 13 and 16) were able to accompany their mother to the lifeboats. They arrived when one of the final remaining lifeboats, Collapsible C, was already being loaded around 02:00. When it was her turn to enter the lifeboat, she realized that her sons would be denied a spot, and stepping back, refused a place in the lifeboat.

When the ship sank, Abbott was swept away from the deck into the water. She tried to clasp her sons but to no avail. Having given up finding them, and at risk of hypothermia in the freezing water, she was able to reach Collapsible Boat A, which was washed off Titanic at 02:15. Hours went by before Fifth Officer Harold Lowe returned to the site with lifeboat 14 to retrieve survivors in the water. Several occupants of Boat A had either succumbed or slipped back into the icy water; of the people on board, Abbott was one of only 13 who survived. Her two sons were lost at sea, and only Rossmore's body was later identified.

According to Rhoda, she had no regret about remaining on the Titanic until the very end, because it allowed her to stay with her sons. On board the rescue ship Carpathia, Abbott received special care in the smoking room. Her legs were badly damaged by the cold water so that she could not move until arrival in New York. There she was hospitalized for two weeks in Manhattan's St. Vincent's Hospital. She was one of the last survivors to be discharged.

As a result of the sinking of the Titanic, Abbott had respiratory problems, including severe bouts of asthma, for the rest of her life. On 16 December 1912, she married longtime friend George Charles Williams, and the couple settled in Jacksonville, Florida. By 1928, they had returned to England to settle Williams' father's estate in London. Abbott took care of her husband until his death in 1938.

Abbott died in London of heart failure as a result of hypertension on 18 February 1946, at the age of 73.

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Rhoda Mary Abbott (née Hunt) (14 January 1873 - 18 February 1946) was a passenger on the RMS Titanic . She was the only female passenger who went down with the sinking of the ship and survived. Abbott was born Rhoda Mary Hunt in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on 14 January 1873, the daughter of Joseph Hunt and his wife Sarah Green Hunt.