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message 1: by Hannah (last edited Jul 01, 2012 09:50PM) (new)

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I was reading on a website the statistics of deaths, and it showed that there was only 434 adult women aboard, 324 survived. There were 1680 adult men aboard, 323 survived. That is including crew.
I found that kind of interesting, that while it was women and children first, pretty much the same amount of women and men survived.

112 children were aboard, 56 survived. Exactly half. Out of the 56 children who died, 55 of those would be third class, since all of second class children lived, and only one first class child died.

Only including passengers: 412 adult women aboard, 304 surived. 776 adult men aboard, 128 survived. 1300 passengers aboard, 488 survived.

What are your thoughts?

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message 2: by Susan (new)

Susan Yes but the percentage of women who survived was far greater. I think the loss of children was shocking. I am not sure what it makes me think, it was just sad. I imagine many men survivors were put on the lifeboats to steer. Sorry for awful typing I am using an iPad and cannot get to grips with it!


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