TITANIC Honors All Nurses

Titanic Honors all Nurses!

In honor of National Nurses Week,TITANIC Museum Attraction is offering a special discount from May 5 – May 11 for all nurses who come to visit our museum. All Nurses will receive complimentary admission with purchase of an adult ticket and valid ID.

Valid dates May 5th – 11th, 2024. Reservations required. Call 1-800-381-7670 for details.

Did You Know?

In honor of all nurses, here’s a little Titanic trivia for everyone… 

How many nurses were on board the Titanic?
There were 7 confirmed Nurses & Future Nurses on Titanic:

• Violet Jessop: Served as a nurse on the hospital ship Britannic during WWI
• Caroline Endres: Trained nurse who served as the nursemaid of Madeleine Astor
• Susan Ryerson: Later trained and served as a bacteriologist during WWI
• Evelyn Marsden: Trained nurse who boarded Titanic as a Stewardess
• Elizbeth Burns: Trained nurse who served as the nursemaid of Robert Spedden
• Edith Pears: Served as a nurse and drove an ambulance for the British Red Cross during WWI
• Lucy Ridsdale: Trained nurse who had worked in a nursing home

How many of the nurses survived?
All 7 of the Nurses listed above survived.

Where was a hospital room on Titanic?
There was one main hospital for passengers in 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Class, located near the middle of the starboard side of D Deck. It included an infectious hospital that had a separate ventilation system for quarantine needs. The crew had its own hospital on C Deck.

There were no actual surgeries performed on the ship.