Crew of The RMS Titanic - Coding of Survivors and Victims

Coding of Survivors and Victims

Each survivor is designated with a lifeboat number/letter. Survivors were rescued from the lifeboats by the RMS Carpathia. Of the 711 passengers and crew rescued from the RMS Titanic, one passenger died in a lifeboat during the night, and another five died on board the Carpathia and were buried at sea. Several ships sailed to the disaster area to recover victims' bodies. Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six passengers buried at sea by the Carpathia also went unnumbered. The three bodies recovered by the RMS Oceanic, numbers 331, 332 and 333, were occupants of Collapsible A, which was swamped in the last moments of the sinking. Several people managed to reach the boat, although some died during the night. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued the survivors of Collapsible A, he left three bodies in the boat: Thomas Beattie, a first-class passenger, and two crew members, a fireman and a seaman. Collapsible A, with the three bodies still inside, was discovered over 200 miles from the site of the sinking by the Oceanic about a month later.

Superscript letters, next to the body number, indicate the recovery vessel that picked up the body.

Upon recovery, the bodies of 160 identified and unidentified victims of the sinking were brought back to Halifax, Nova Scotia to be buried. 129 were taken to the non-denominational Fairview Lawn Cemetery; twenty-nine were buried in the Roman Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery, and ten were taken to the Jewish Baron de Hirsch Cemetery. The bodies of the remaining recovered victims were either delivered to family members or buried at sea.

The crew member perished
The crew member survived

It should be noted that the "Hometown" field may be misleading. Many crew had secondary or temporary addresses in Southampton, which they gave when signing the crew list, and others may have only recently relocated there. In particular, the number of crew from Merseyside is understated. For example, Chief Engineer Joseph Bell and Chief Steward Andrew Latimer lived with their families in the Liverpool area. Dr. Alan Scarth in his book Titanic and Liverpool identifies 115 crew members with close connections to the city, of whom only 28 survived.