Lost Photos of the Titanic and The Stories Behind Them

Surviving Stewards

Out of the 908 crew members on board, 421 of them were stewards (waiters and maids). Only 60 stewards survived, and 48 of them were women. The photo above shows steward Thomas Whitely. His leg was crushed when a piece of debris fell on him as he boarded a lifeboat. 

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