Titanic‘s Crew
Titanic‘s 900 crewmembers were mostly men, with just twenty-three women. The crew hailed predominantly from England and Ireland. These include the firemen who fed the boilers to keep the ship running and engineers (all lost) who kept the mechanical systems operational. Titanic had stewards keeping the passengers happy, the bakers, cooks, and serving teams keeping the passengers fed. The ship also had some uncommon jobs, too; two women, Annie Canton and Maud Slocombe, tended the Turkish Bath, Thomas McCawley, who ran the ship’s gymnasium, two surgeons, four purser clerks, and three lift operators. Some of the most compelling workers weren’t even considered employees, the ‘outside contractors,’ two men working the Marconi communications who send out Titanic’s distress call, eight musicians and three self-employed barbers considered ‘victualling crew’ who worked for tips. 686 crew would never return to their homeland, but the 214 that did continued to have adventurous lives.