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128 children aged 14 or under were aboard the Titanic on her maiden voyage. There were 11 first class child passengers, 26 second class, 89 in third class and 2 child crew members. Three of the children disembarked at Cherbourg and one at Queenstown thereby avoiding the disaster.
NameAgeClass/deptTicketCA2673 £20 5s10m392091 £9 7s2666 £19 5s 2d2666 £19 5s 2dHow many children died in the Titanic disaster? This page lists all those aged 14 and under that died in the sinking of the Titanic. See also Children on the Titanic.
NameAgeClass/deptTicketCA2673 £20 5s113781 £151 16s347082 £31 5s 6d347082 £31 5s 6d- 10 William Carter II
- 9 Robert Douglas Spedden
- 8 Jean Hippach
- 7 Madeleine Violet Mellinger
- 6 The Navratil Children
- 5 Millvina Dean
- 4 Mary Conover Lines
- 3 Jack Thayer
- 2 Eva Hart
- 1 August Abraham Johannes Abrahamsson
William Carter, or Billy, was 11 years old when he first stepped onto the Titanic. Billy was a first-class passenger, and the Carters were among the richest families on the Titanic. Not only were they first-class passengers, but all of their children, including Billy, attended boarding schools, and they had a servant with them on the boat. Even tho...
Robert Spedden was six years old when the Titanic crashed into the iceberg. He was on the ship with his mother and father. Spedden is a famous young boy from the Titanic because after the event, his mother wrote a book called Polar the Titanic Bear. This book was dedicated to Spedden, and it was about his teddy bear and his trip on the Titanic. Sin...
Jean Hippach was a 16-year-old girl who was traveling on the Titanic with her mother. On the night of the collision, Hippach slept through the initial crash. She was not awoken until she heard the steam roaring from the ship. Hippach remembered nobody being initially alarmed by the crash, and a ship worker told her not to worry and to go back to he...
Madeleine Violet Mellinger was 13 years old and was a second-class passenger when the Titanic left port. Mellinger was traveling with her mother. During the night the Titanic hit the iceberg, Mellinger was jarred awake by the sound of the crash. After that, she went back to bedfor a little while until a man pounded on their door and told them to ge...
This next story is one of how the kindness of strangers and a little luck can completely change a child’s life. The night that the Titanic sank, Mr. Navratil and his two young sons were aboard the doomed ship. Mr. Navratil had lost custody of the boys to his estranged wife, so he had decided to run off to the United Stateswith them. Before putting ...
When the Titanic was making its voyage to New York, Millvina Dean was only two months old. This made her the youngest passenger on the ship. She and her family were third-class passengers and were on the Titanic because they were moving to the US. During the night of the crash, Millvina, her mother, and her brother all boarded a lifeboat and made i...
Mary Conover Lines was 16 years old when she was aboard the Titanic. She was traveling with her mother, and they were going to the United States to attend her brother’s graduation from college. The two were in the reception room of the ship when it hit the iceberg. Lines and her mother made their way up to board a lifeboat. There they saw iceall ov...
John “Jack” Thayer’s story is one of the most thrilling from the sinking of the Titanic and one of extreme luck. Thayer, 17 at the time, was traveling with his parents and made some friends on board the ship. The night the Titanic hit the iceberg, Thayer and one of his friends were separated from his family and made their way to get onto a lifeboat...
Eva Hart was just seven years old when the Titanic collided with the iceberg. She was traveling with her mother and father on the great ocean liner. Hart and her family were second-class passengers on the ship. Hart and her mother were able to get on a lifeboat and survived, but her father was lost to the deadly cold ocean. Her story has a happy en...
August Abrahamsson was 19 when he was on the Titanic. He was a third-class passenger on the ship, and he was travelingwith his parents and two siblings. During the night of the crash, Abrahamsson left his room late because he didn’t believe there was a problem with the ship. Since he waited so long to leave his room, he could not get a life belt. A...
Mar 13, 2024 · Among the survivors of the Titanic was Millvina Dean, the youngest survivor at just two months old. Several notable individuals survived the sinking of the Titanic, including: Lawrence Beesley: A schoolteacher and journalist, Beesley was traveling aboard the Titanic and survived by boarding lifeboat number 13.
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- Millvina Dean. Dean, the last living survivor of the Titanic, passed away in 2009 at the age of 97. At the time of the sinking, Dean was just 2 months old.
- Molly Brown. Brown—historically known as The Unsinkable Molly Brown—was also on Lifeboat number 6 and allegedly pleaded (even argued) with the crew to return to the wreckage to help survivors.
- Elsie Bowerman. Bowerman, a suffrage advocate who was on the same lifeboat as Brown, later wrote her own account: "The silence when the engines stopped was followed by a steward knocking on our door and telling us to go on deck.
- Cosmo and Lucy Duff-Gordon. The Duff-Gordons—a married couple—also survived but Cosmo Duff-Gordon was eviscerated by the public for boarding a lifeboat when it was supposed to be women and children only.
4 days ago · The boys were unaware that they were being abducted. Too young to tell and simply following their father, the children boarded the Titanic as second-class passengers under pseudonyms. Their father ...
Loraine Allison was the only child in first and second class to die (53 of 76 children in third-class perished). Her body was never found.
