Your Ticket to Titanic
(Click on each ticket to see how much it would cost today.)
Welcome Aboard the
“Practically Unsinkable” Ship!
$4,591 in today’s dollars.
A first class suite will cost $133,132
at today’s prices. You’ll have to be
very wealthy to buy that ticket.
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$1,834 in today’s dollars.
To buy this ticket, you’ll need to have
some expendable income. That means
after you pay your bills, there’s some
left for extras. But you don’t have to be
terribly rich. You might have a regular
job such as teacher, writer, small
business manager, or pastor.
$1,071 in today’s dollars.
It’s the cheapest ticket.
But still not cheap!
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. — Psalm 118:8
Titanic passengers got their names printed in the
newspaper to show they would board the historic
voyage. Worth the ticket? We say no way . . .
but that’s because we know how the story ends.
A lifeboat carrying Titanic shipwreck survivors
Click thumbnails to zoom in
A first
class
room
First Class:
• squash courts
• gyms
• Turkish baths
• swimming pool
• shuffleboard
• chess
• reading and writing room
• dinner in the main dining
room from 7:00 to 8:15 p.m.
• on the menu: oysters,
duckling, lamb, fancy
cheese
• a live orchestra serenades
you during dinner
The gym
The
Turkish
baths
Second Class:
• private cabins
• shared bathrooms
• smoking rooms (men only!)
• library
• access to decks for fresh sea air
• on the menu: haddock, chicken,
lamb with mint, turkey with
cranberry sauce
A second
class
room
Second
class
deck
Library
Third class
cabin
Third
class
deck
Third Class:
• shared cabins—up to 10 people each
• just two bathtubs to share between
all 709 third class passengers
• two dining rooms
• outdoor deck
• breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper
(“Dinner” means “lunch” here. “Dinner” was
the term for the largest meal of the day.)
• on the menu: rice soup, biscuits,
roast beef, fruit
Third
class
menu