money

(I am not sure if this has been asked before—if it has, feel free to merge my query with the relevant thread.) If a passenger wanted, for example, to tip a steward, or to pay for a meal at the à la carte restaurant, would they have done so in British pounds or American dollars?

Many people are familiar with the lavish lifestyle of first-class passengers on the Titanic, thanks to the award-winning Hollywood film (via IMDb). Not only did they have access to an inclusive gymnasium and a Turkish bath, but they also ate like royalty. In modern times, seafood doesn't come...

Question: Are there any accounts of 1st Class passenger stating or another passenger seeing a man throwing his money overboard? Reason I am asking is that my grandfather Richard Norris Williams stated in his unpublished memoir of witnessing such an act but did not name him. The passenger...

I've just been watching a remarkable little documentary about some chaps from Newfoundland who are onto a new money-making scheme. In the spring, they send out a plane to find icebergs that are drifting along their coast on the Labrador Current. They are looking for fairly small bergs, maybe...

What ever happened to Molly's fortune. I know she had a daughter and maybe a son. I guess that they would have gotten the money. Her daughter died in 1993. Did she have any kids? Is the money gone by now? While I'm on the subject what about J.J. Astor's decendents? I know his son with...

Earlier posts re conversion rate gave $4.79 (call it $5.00) per Pound Sterling in 1912, and books comparing 1912 w/current (including Titanica exhibits) use multipliers of about 17.5 (call it 18). But my calcs, using ticket prices given on this website, give results radically different from...

Well, I've done some searching, but all of the pictures I can find are priced in pounds. Does anyone know a site that lists the price in AMERICAN MONEY, too?! I would enjoy pictures of the Titanic leaving, or any passengers, much like the ones posted in the thread called Library Of Congress...

Medals earned by Captain Benjamin Steel, who was White Star's Marine Superintendent at Southampton in 1912 have been sold for £23,000. The first part of the story is at http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/southampton/titanic/SOTON_TITANIC_NEWS2.html Whether Captain Steele was really the...

to all members of the board i would like to say that a titanic cremember by the name of ann caton wasnt paid by the white star after surviving the sinking she went to get paid by the white star line but they told her that they wont pay her because the ship went down is this right or could they...

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths and the leave of morals that will take place in the name of the allmighty dollar. The reason i am dismissing this wedding idea is because all it is is a silly desperate reach for publicity and nothing more. Just as i feel the people who want to build the...