What were the prices of the tickets to get on the titanic?

-- (whyte@enterprise.net.au), September 01, 1998

Answers

According to a 1912 newspaper/poster ad that appears in "Titanic - Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner," by Susan Wells, Time Life Books, 1998, the Third class tickets were priced as it follows:

$36.25 to Plymouth, Southmapton, London, Liverpool and Glasgow;

$41.50 to Copehnhagen, Malmo etc;

$44.50 to Stockholm, Helsingfors/Helsinki;

$45.00 to Hamburg, Cherbourg, Amsterdam etc;

$48.00 to Turin;

$52.50 to Naples;

$55.00 to Pireus (Greece);

$61 to Beyrouth.

All prices are from New York and expressed in 1912 US dollars.

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), September 01, 1998.