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TITANIC Honors All Nurses
Titanic Honors all Nurses!
In honor of National Nurses Week,TITANIC Museum Attraction is offering a special discount from May 6 – May 12 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 6th – 12th, 2025. 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 1st, 2nd, and 3rd 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.
