![]() The ship's musicians travelled in second-class accommodations they were not counted as members of the crew, but were employed by an agency under contract to the White Star Line. Second-class passengers were leisure tourists, academics, members of the clergy, and middle-class English, Scottish and American families. Second class The Titanic 's musicians, led by Wallace Hartley, were employed as crew, but given second-class accommodations. Morgan was also reported to have been planning to make the voyage but changed his plans at the last-minute. Hershey, founder of Hershey's chocolate, made plans to sail aboard the ship's maiden voyage, but cancelled his booking before the ship set sail. Swedish first class passenger and businessman Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson owned the most highly valued single object on board: a masterpiece of French neoclassical painting entitled La Circassienne au Bain, for which he would later claim US$100,000 in compensation (equivalent to US$3 million in 2022). Thayer, vice president of Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, Marian Charles Hays, president of Canada's Grand Trunk Railway William Ernest Carter and his wife, American socialite Lucile Carter millionaire, philanthropist and women's rights activist Margaret Brown tennis star and banker Karl Behr famous American silent film actress Dorothy Gibson prominent Buffalo architect Edward Austin Kent and President William Howard Taft's military aide, Major Archibald Butt, who was returning to resume his duties after a six-week trip to Europe. Among others were industrialist magnate and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim Macy's department store owner, and former member of the United States House of Representatives Isidor Straus, and his wife Ida George Dennick Wick, founder and president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company millionaire streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener John B. Astor was the wealthiest passenger aboard the ship and one of the richest men in the world his great-grandfather John Jacob Astor was the first multi-millionaire in North America. ![]() Some of the most prominent members of the American social elite made the trip: real estate builder, businessman, and multimillionaire Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and his 18-year-old pregnant wife Madeleine were returning to the United States for their child's birth. Bruce Ismay and the ship's Harland and Wolff designer, Thomas Andrews, were both on board to oversee the ship's progress on her maiden voyage. Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff, intended to travel aboard the Titanic, but illness prevented him from joining the ill-fated voyage however, White Star Line's managing director J. The Cavendishes of London were among other prominent British couples on board, as well. Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, a real estate investor and member of the wealthy Scottish-American Gracie family, embarked at Southampton. Many members of the British aristocracy made the trip: The Countess of Rothes, wife of the 19th Earl of Rothes, embarked at Southampton with her parents, Thomas and Clementina Dyer-Edwardes, and cousin Gladys Cherry. First-class passengers also traveled accompanied by personal staff-valets, maids, nurses and governesses for the children, chauffeurs, and cooks. ![]() ![]() First-class passengers enjoyed a number of amenities, including a gymnasium, a squash court, a saltwater swimming pool, electric and Turkish baths, a barbershop, kennels for first-class dogs, elevators, and both open and enclosed promenades. A single-person berth in first class cost between £30 (equivalent to £3,200 in 2021) and £870 (equivalent to £92,000 in 2021) for a parlour suite and small private promenade deck. ![]() The Titanic 's first-class list was a " who's who" of the prominent upper class in 1912. First class Georgette Madill, first-class passenger Third-class or steerage passengers were primarily immigrants moving to the United States and Canada. Second-class passengers were predominantly middle-class travellers and included professors, authors, clergymen, and tourists. The ship's passengers were divided into three separate classes determined by the price of their ticket: those travelling in first class, most of them the wealthiest passengers on board, included prominent members of the upper class, businessmen, politicians, high-ranking military personnel, industrialists, bankers, entertainers, socialites, and professional athletes. Partway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 passengers. A total of 2,240 people sailed on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, the second of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, from Southampton, England, to New York City. ![]()
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