In frightfully boring terms...
In 1912 any 'Mercans who could afford to sail on the Titanic were probably First Class passengers who could get their butlers or valets to elbow the frightfully inferior European types aside.

All the European peasant scum were consigned to the bilges, which is where the water got in first.

Always worth remembering that Marconi - the Italian inventor who had developed the concept of the radio receiver - was, despite his invention - too poor to afford a first class berth and therefore drowned when the Titanic went down.

Anyway, that's yer factual stuff. Feel free to resume your homo-erotic fantasies.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 19:49, Reply)