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yetanotherfratboy
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Found this list of (of all things) women who happened to be expecting while taking the Titanic on her maiden voyage. Here's some of the highlights I've found:

1) Oldest: Marion Kenyon, 40 years, 9 months, 10 days
2) Youngest: Adele Nasrallah, 14 years, 27 days*
3) Longest-lived (survived the wreck): Ethel Beane, 22 years, 5 months at time of wreck, 93 years, 10 months.
4) Shortest-lived (survived the wreck): Helen Bishop, 19 years, 10 months, 27 days at time of wreck, 23 years, 10 months.
5) First to pop: Maria Backstrom, June 1912
6) Baby conceived on board: Ethel Beane, Ada Doling, Kate Phillips
7) Richest: Madeleine Astor, 18 years, 9 months, 26 days, husband JJ was worth approximately 2.21 billion USD in 2017.

*Death certificate. Social Security application gave age of 17 years, 27 days. 1920 and 1940 census gave age of 18 years, 1930, 16 years. Age reported variously as 18-21 years, she wrote to Madeleine Astor after the wreck claiming to be 21.
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janaie13
(June 1, 2018, 10:08 pm)yetanotherfratboy 6) Baby conceived on board: Ethel Beane, Ada Doling, Kate Phillips

Jesus, talk about fortunate/unfortunate timing. Although, hell of a party story for those kids to tell down the line, I'm sure.
DaveTheMan
That is bit of a Random List
yetanotherfratboy
(June 2, 2018, 1:06 am)janaie13
(June 1, 2018, 10:08 pm)yetanotherfratboy 6) Baby conceived on board: Ethel Beane, Ada Doling, Kate Phillips

Jesus, talk about fortunate/unfortunate timing. Although, hell of a party story for those kids to tell down the line, I'm sure.

From what I've read, third class was segregated between men and women by a long corridor between the bow and stern called Scotland Road. There's a lot of stories of stewards going into the bow section to wake the men up and finding more than a few girls in the bunks with them.

Chances are that if you set up along Scotland Road early in the morning, you'd get to see the Edwardian equivalent of the walk of shame.
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