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
Numbers 324 and 325 were unused, and the six bodies buried at sea by the Carpathia also went unnumbered. Several recovered bodies were unidentifiable and thus not all numbers are matched with a person.
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.
NameAgeHometownBoardedPositionLifeboatBody
Anderson, Mr. John42Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman3
Archer, Mr. Ernest Edward36Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman3
Bailey, Mr. Henry Joseph46Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonMaster-at-arms16
Bradley, Mr. Thomas Henry28Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Brice, Mr. Walter Thomas42Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman11
Bright, Mr. Arthur John42Woolston, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonQuartermasterD
Buley, Mr. Edward John26Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman10
Clench, Mr. Frederick Charles33Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman12
Clench, Mr. George James31Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Couch, Mr. Frank28Port Isaac, CornwallSouthamptonAble Seaman253MB
Davis, Mr. Stephen James39Landport, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Evans, Mr. Alfred Frank25Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonLookout15
Evans, Mr. Frank Oliver25Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman10
Fleet, Mr. Frederick25Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastLookout6
Foley, Mr. John46Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastStorekeeper4
Forward, Mr. James27Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman16
Haines, Mr. Albert M.31Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastBoatswain9
Harder, Mr. William39Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonWindow Cleaner14
Hemming, Mr. Samuel Ernest43Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastLamp Trimmer4
Hichens, Mr. Robert29Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonQuartermaster6
Hogg, Mr. George Alfred29Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastLookout7
Holman, Mr. Harry27Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastAble Seaman
Hopkins, Mr. Robert John40Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman13
Horswill, Mr. Albert Edward James33Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman1
Humphreys, Mr. Sidney James52Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonQuartermaster11
Hutchinson, Mr. John Hall28Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastCarpenter/Joiner170MB
Jewell, Mr. Archie23Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastLookout7
Jones, Mr. Thomas William34Liverpool, Lancashire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman8
King, Mr. Thomas Walter42Portsmouth, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonMaster-at-arms
Lee, Mr. Reginald Robinson41Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonLookout13
Lucas, Mr. William Arthur25Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble SeamanD
Lyons, Mr. William Henry25Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman4
Matherson, Mr. David33Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman192MB
Mathias, Mr. Montague Vincent29Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonMess Steward
Maxwell, Mr. John29Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastCarpenter/Joiner
McCarthy, Mr. William48Cork, County Cork, IrelandSouthamptonAble Seaman4
McGough, Mr. James Francis36Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman9
Moore, Mr. George Alfred32Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman3
Nichols, Mr. Albert William Stanley47Shirley, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastBoatswain
O'Loughlin, Dr. William Francis Norman, MD62Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastSurgeon
Olliver, Mr. Alfred John27Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastQuartermaster5
Osman, Mr. Frank27Itchen, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman2
Pascoe, Mr. Charles Henry45Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman8
Perkis, Mr. Walter John37Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastQuartermaster4
Peters, Mr. William Chapman26Woolston, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman9
Poingdestre, Mr. John Thomas27Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman12
Rowe, Mr. George Thomas32Gosport, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastQuartermasterC
Sawyer, Mr. Robert James31Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonWindow Cleaner
Scarrott, Mr. Joseph George33Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman14
Simpson, Dr. John Edward, MD37Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAssistant Surgeon
Smith, Mr. William26Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Symons, Mr. George Thomas Macdonald24Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonLookout1
Tamlyn, Mr. Frederick23Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonMess Steward123MB
Taylor, Mr. Charles William Frederick35Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Terrell, Mr. Bertram20Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman
Vigott, Mr. Philip Francis32Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandSouthamptonAble Seaman13
Weller, Mr. William Clifford30Southampton, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastAble Seaman7
Wynn, Mr. Walter41Shirley, Hampshire, EnglandBelfastQuartermaster9