15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About The Titanic

9. Even Now, You'd Probably Only Be Able To Afford A Steerage Ticket...

Whilst many of you would be happy to fork out £870 for an all inclusive, luxury holiday, this was the price of a First Class ticket in 1912. £870 is roughly the equivalent of £77,000 now in 2015. This was for the parlour suite and having been designed around the decor of the Ritz, you wouldn't expect anything less than decadent with lavish chambers. The average price for a Second Class ticket was £12 which is around £1000 now. Although you wouldn't have had access to the salt water swimming pools, the barbershop and dog kennels like they did in First Class, you would have a library and some enclosed promenades. A Third Class ticket was between £3-£7 ranging from £300 to £600 today. White Star Line considered their Third Class ticket holders to be sleeping in luxury as they had their own cabins, they ate dinner on chairs as opposed to benches and it was basically to encourage people to travel using White Star Line facilities. Other starliners made Third Class passengers bring their own food whereas the Titanic provided it for them. There was only two bathtubs for the 700 passengers though, one for women and one for men. Each ticket holder was allocated to particular areas of the ship, meaning that a Third Class passenger didn't have the same privileges as First Class passengers - White Star Line didn't want the rich mingling with the poor, or even looking at them for that matter. This is why so many people died below decks when the ship was sinking as there were gates to divide the Classes, meaning that Third Class passengers were locked below decks, not knowing what was going on until the ship started to flood.