How much were the most expensive tickets on the Titanic?

The family fortune came from her father, a wealthy textile-mill owner. Cardeza had no trouble affording what is believed to have been the most expensive ticket on the ship: $2,560 in 1912 dollars, or more than $61,000 today. She boarded the ship in Cherbourg with her 36-year-old son, Thomas, her maid, and his valet.



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First-Class Tickets The average cost of a first-class ticket to board the Titanic was about $400 ($5,000 in today's money). There were two first-class rooms on the Titanic that cost $3,300 each (more than a brand new car back then). The rooms were each 50 feet long with there own personal deck.

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The first class tickets ranged enormously in price, from $150 (about $1700 today) for a simple berth, up to $4350 ($50,000) for one of the two Parlour suites. Second class tickets were $60 (around $700) and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170 - £460).

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Cabins B-51/53/55 were the most expensive and one of the most luxurious Parlor Suites of the Titanic, located on the starboard side of B Deck. They were occupied by Charlotte Cardeza and her son Thomas Cardeza. The sitting room B-51 had green chairs, several sofas and armchairs, and a fireplace.

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A third class ticket on the Titanic cost around £7 in 1912, which is equivalent to about £852 or $1,071 in today's money. That price included food and accommodation on board the ship. Titanic's third class was considered to be as good as second class on other ships of that time.

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Titanic 1st Class Victims An estimated 123 of the roughly 324 passengers journeying in first class perished in the accident, 39% of those traveling on a 1st class ticket.

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The first class tickets ranged enormously in price, from $150 (about $1700 today) for a simple berth, up to $4350 ($50,000) for one of the two Parlour suites. Second class tickets were $60 (around $700) and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170 - £460). 7. WHICH WERE THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS?

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J. Pierpont Morgan and Milton Hershey were among those who missed the disaster.

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How much does it cost to tour the Titanic? The OceanGate Titanic expedition cost $250,000 per person, which excludes transportation to and from St. John's, Newfoundland, where the journey starts and ends before traveling about 400 miles to the wreck.

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Going to be launched in 2022, the current project of Titanic II is under the renowned Australian businessman and politician Clive Palmer.

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Exclusive rights to salvage items from the wreck were given to RMS Titanic Inc. (RMST) This is only the case for the United States, however. These laws have no bearing on citizens of other countries. Since no one owns the Titanic, people are free to recover items from the ship if they are able.

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White Star paid nothing until December 1915, when they agreed to pay compensation of $664,000 to to be be divided amongst the survivors. Worked out at about $950 per person. Adjusted for inflation, that works out to be $22,000.

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