When Titanic sank on the night of 15 April 1912, 712 of her passengers and crew escaped the disaster in a flotilla of 20 small lifeboats, some filled to overflowing, some floating precariously on the verge of sinking themselves, while others rowed away barely half full.
This page contains a comprehensive list of every person to survive the Titanic disaster and links to a detailed life story, showing what led them to be aboard Titanic, and how they coped with life in the aftermath of an unprecedented disaster.
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