Titanic Disaster Statistics

Titanic Passengers: Rescued and Lost by Percentage.

 

Category

Number aboard Number of survivors Percentage survived Number lost Percentage lost
First class 329 199 60.5 % 130 39.5 %
Second class 285 119 41.7 % 166 58.3 %
Third class 710 174 24.5 % 536 75.5 %
Crew 899 214 23.8 % 685 76.2 %
Total 2,223 706 31.8 % 1,517 68.2 %

Statistics of Passengers Rescued and Lost

 

first class passengers, survivors:

Women and Children

156

Men

173

Total

329

first class passengers, survivors:

Women and Children

145

Men

54

Total

199

first class passengers, lost:

Women and Children

11

Men

119

Total

130

second class passengers who sailed on the Titanic:

Women and Children

128

Men

157

Total

285

second class passengers, survivors:

Women and Children

104

Men

15

Total

119

second class passengers, lost:

Women and Children

24

Men

142

Total

166

third class passengers who sailed on the Titanic:

Women and Children

224

Men

486

Total

710

third class passengers, survivors:

Women and Children

105

Men

69

Total

174

third class passengers, lost:

Women and Children

119

Men

417

Total

536

Detail of Cargo Claimed as Lost. 

  • 3,364 bags of mail and between 700 and 800 parcels.
  • One Renault 35 hp automobile owned by passenger William Carter.
  • One Marmalade Machine owned by passenger Edwina Trout.
  • Oil painting by Blondel, “La Circasienne Au Bain” owned by Hokan Björnström-Steffanson.
  • Seven parcels of parchment of the Torah owned by Hersh L. Siebald.
  • Three crates of ancient models for the Denver Museum.
  • 50 Cases of toothpaste for Park & Tilford
  • 11 bales of rubber for the National City Bank of New York
  • Eight dozen tennis balls were lost which were to go to R.F. Downey & Co.
  • A cask of china headed for Tiffany’s.
  • Five Grand Pianos.
  • Thirty cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for A.G. Spalding.
  • A jewelled copy of The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám, with illustrations by Eliku Vedder sold for £405 at auction in March of 1912 to an American bidder. The binding took two years to execute, and the decoration embodied no fewer than 1,500 precious stones, each separately set in gold.
  • Four cases of opium