Rms Titanic Research Paper

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The RMS Titanic was known as “The Ship of Dreams.” Many Newspapers used this saying to entice passengers to board the ship. There were many dreams aboard the Titanic. It was a ship of luxury, class, and style. Even steerage was was pleasent experiance for third and second class passengers. Many of the first class passengers were very wealthy and famous and enjoyed the luxury the Titanic offered. Despite the evident class distinction on each ticket, the Titanic provided a significant social change in that the passengers’ experiences aboard the ship were new, they disregarded their social status in a time of tragedy, and people around the world responded. “Let’s build the fastest ship in the ocean!”(J.Bruce Ismay) The RMS Titanic was more than …show more content…
One of the most famous passengers in first class was Margaret brown, better known as Molly Brown. She was born in 1867. Molly Brown was a notable Human-Rights activist, actress, and philanthropist. She helped many of the passengers into lifeboats and survived the sinking herself. She was known by history as “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” Another first class passenger was Major Archibald Butt. He was an aide to President Roosevelt and Taft. He was brave soldier to the end and helped the scared passengers into the lifeboats. He died honorably in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. John B. Thayer was an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was an honorable man who helped passengers into the lifeboats and refused to get in one himself, due to the shortage. Dorothy Gibson was another first class passenger. She was a silent film actress returning from a vacation in Italy with her mother. They were both rescued and Dorothy later starred in the film, “Saved From The Titanic.”The youngest passenger on the ship, Millvina Dean, became famous after surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was only nine week old when her family decided to emigrate to America. Her Father died in the sinking, but Millvina, her mother, and brother survived. One of the crew members was a stewardess named Violet Jessop. Previously to the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage she had served on The Olympic and was from an emigrant family. During the …show more content…
For the first class passengers a ticket to New York aboard the Titanic was two-thousand and five-hundred dollars in 1912. In the present day that ticket would cost fifty-seven-thousand and two hundred dollars. The difference between the two costs is fifty-four thousand and seven hundred dollars. A third class ticket cost was only forty dollars in 1912. In the present day a ticket aboard the Titanic is valued at nine-hundred dollars. There is a difference of eight-hundred and sixty dollars. Even though the costs of the tickets in 1912 does not seem like much today it was a great deal of money for the passengers of the Titanic. The ticket itself covered most of the costs for a passenger. The additional costs may have included a ticket to the swimming pool for twenty-five cents, a ticket to the squash court for fifty cents, and the RMS Titanic’s newspaper, the “Atlantic Daily Bulletin.”At the beginning, these costs were a barrier between classes, but that all changed during the