Crew of the Titanic
The crew of the RMS Titanic were among the estimated 2,240 people who sailed on the maiden voyage of the second of the White Star Line's Olympic-class ocean liners, from Southampton, England, to New York City in the United States. Halfway through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people, including approximately 688 crew members.
Crew
The following is a full list of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.Included in this list are the nine-member Guarantee Group and the eight members of the ship's band, who were given passenger accommodations and treated as both passengers and crew. They are also included in the list of passengers on board RMS Titanic.
Crew members are colour-coded, indicating whether they were saved or perished.
The crew member did not survive
The crew member survived
Survivors are listed with the lifeboat from which they were known to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia, on 15 April 1912.
Victims whose remains were recovered after the sinking are listed with a superscript next to the body number, indicating the recovery vessel:
- MB – CS Mackay-Bennett
- M – CS Minia
- MM – CGS Montmagny
- A – SS Algerine
- O – RMS Oceanic
- I – SS Ilford
- OT – SS Ottawa
Upon recovery, the bodies of 209 identified and unidentified victims of the sinking were brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Of those, 121 were taken to the non-denominational Fairview Lawn Cemetery, 59 were repatriated, 19 were buried in the Roman Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery, and 10 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 "Hometown" field may be misleading. Many crews 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.
Officers
Deck
The Titanic employed:- One able officer, also known as a bosun or boatswain, and one boatswain's mate, who had seniority over all the unlicensed deck crew. They were experienced seamen who managed the deck lines, deck cranes, winches, lifeboat davits, etc. on the deck. Only the boatswain's mate survived.
- Two medical doctors, one senior and one junior, titled Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon respectively. They were responsible for treating injuries and illnesses on board involving passengers or crew and had access to the ship's hospital and store of pharmaceuticals. Neither medical officer survived the sinking.
- 29 able seamen, who had completed additional training and usually had seniority over other crew members. They carried out the day-to-day operations of the ship. In addition, they were trained to operate the lifeboat davits and man the lifeboats themselves. Each able seaman was assigned to a lifeboat and take charge of that boat if no officer were present. About eight of these men were lost when they went below decks to open the E Deck gangway and were never seen again. As almost all the remaining able seamen had departed in the first lifeboats launched, the lifeboats launched subsequently had a shortage of trained seamen to man them. As a result, a few stokers and even victualling stewards were ordered to man the launching and rowing of the boats. In one instance, a passenger with yachting experience was put in co-command of a lifeboat. Nineteen of these survived the sinking.
- Two Masters-at-Arms, who, along with the First Officer, kept the keys to the only firearms on board. One survived, one was lost.
- Seven quartermasters ; highly trained seamen who worked on and around the bridge to steer the ship as helmsmen, manage signal flags, and stand watch on the bridge to assist the duty officer with general navigation.
- Two window cleaners. One survived, one was lost.
- Two Carpenters/Joiners which keep eye on fresh water and were repairing and working with wooden parts of ship
- One lamp trimmer. His duties, as he said was “to mix the paint, and all that kind of thing for the ship, and to look after all the decks, trim all the lamps, and get them in proper order. That is all, I think. To put the lights in at nighttime and take them off at daybreak.” He survived the sinking.
- Six lookouts, who worked two to a shift in the crow's nest; the shifts lasted only two hours at a time because of extremely cold winds which lookouts were exposed to in the open crow's nest. Despite the myths, lookouts were never supposed to have binoculars. They were supposed to see the object and not identify it. The binoculars would have made the view area even smaller and not help at all since the iceberg was practically invisible to the human eye, with the air temperature at, and a headwind.
| Name | Age | Hometown | Boarded | Position | Lifeboat | Body |
| Anderson, Mr. John | 42 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 3 | |
| Archer, Mr. Ernest Edward | 36 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 3 | |
| Bailey, Mr. Henry Joseph | 46 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Master-at-arms | 16 | |
| Bradley, Mr. Thomas Henry | 28 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Brice, Mr. Walter Thomas | 42 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 11 | |
| Bright, Mr. Arthur John | 42 | Woolston, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Quartermaster | D | |
| Buley, Mr. Edward John | 26 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 10 | |
| Clench, Mr. Frederick Charles | 33 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 12 | |
| Clench, Mr. George James | 31 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Couch, Mr. Frank | 28 | Port Isaac, Cornwall | Southampton | Able Seaman | 253MB | |
| Davis, Mr. Stephen James | 39 | Landport, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Evans, Mr. Alfred Frank | 25 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Lookout | 15 | |
| Evans, Mr. Frank Oliver | 25 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 10 | |
| Fleet, Mr. Frederick | 25 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Lookout | 6 | |
| Foley, Mr. John | 46 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Storekeeper | 4 | |
| Forward, Mr. James | 27 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 16 | |
| Haines, Mr. Albert M. | 31 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Boatswain | 9 | |
| Harder, Mr. William | 39 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Window Cleaner | 14 | |
| Hemming, Mr. Samuel Ernest | 43 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Lamp Trimmer | 4 | |
| Hichens, Mr. Robert | 29 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Quartermaster | 6 | |
| Hogg, Mr. George Alfred | 29 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Lookout | 7 | |
| Holman, Mr. Harry | 27 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Able Seaman | ||
| Hopkins, Mr. Robert John | 40 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 13 | |
| Horswill, Mr. Albert Edward James | 33 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 1 | |
| Humphreys, Mr. Sidney James | 52 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Quartermaster | 11 | |
| Hutchinson, Mr. John Hall | 28 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Carpenter/Joiner | 170MB | |
| Jewell, Mr. Archie | 23 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Lookout | 7 | |
| Jones, Mr. Thomas William | 34 | Liverpool, Lancashire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 8 | |
| King, Mr. Thomas Walter | 42 | Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Master-at-arms | ||
| Lee, Mr. Reginald Robinson | 41 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Lookout | 13 | |
| Lucas, Mr. William Arthur | 25 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | D | |
| Lyons, Mr. William Henry | 25 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 4 | |
| Matherson, Mr. David | 33 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 192MB | |
| Mathias, Mr. Montague Vincent | 29 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Mess Steward | ||
| Maxwell, Mr. John | 29 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Carpenter/Joiner | ||
| McCarthy, Mr. William | 48 | Cork, County Cork, Ireland | Southampton | Able Seaman | 4 | |
| McGough, Mr. James Francis | 36 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 9 | |
| Moore, Mr. George Alfred | 32 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 3 | |
| Nichols, Mr. Albert William Stanley | 47 | Shirley, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Boatswain | ||
| O'Loughlin, Dr. William Francis Norman, MD | 62 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Surgeon | ||
| Olliver, Mr. Alfred John | 27 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Quartermaster | 5 | |
| Osman, Mr. Frank | 27 | Itchen, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 2 | |
| Pascoe, Mr. Charles Henry | 45 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 8 | |
| Perkis, Mr. Walter John | 37 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Quartermaster | 4 | |
| Peters, Mr. William Chapman | 26 | Woolston, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 9 | |
| Poingdestre, Mr. John Thomas | 27 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 12 | |
| Rowe, Mr. George Thomas | 32 | Gosport, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Quartermaster | C | |
| Sawyer, Mr. Robert James | 31 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Window Cleaner | ||
| Scarrott, Mr. Joseph George | 33 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 14 | |
| Simpson, Dr. John Edward, MD | 37 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Assistant Surgeon | ||
| Smith, Mr. William | 26 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Symons, Mr. George Thomas Macdonald | 24 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Lookout | 1 | |
| Tamlyn, Mr. Frederick | 23 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Mess Steward | 123MB | |
| Taylor, Mr. Charles William Frederick | 35 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Terrell, Mr. Bertram | 20 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | ||
| Vigott, Mr. Philip Francis | 32 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Southampton | Able Seaman | 13 | |
| Weller, Mr. William Clifford | 30 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Able Seaman | 7 | |
| Wynn, Mr. Walter | 41 | Shirley, Hampshire, England | Belfast | Quartermaster | 9 |