Titanic Tales - the hazards of queuing

The propensity of individuals from the UK to queue could be deadly....or so it was the case in the Titanic tragedy!

The following excerpt from Shadow of the Titanic (Andrew Wilson, 2011) seems to bear this out....'The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 per cent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people travelling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other nations....British good manners - the propensity to happily form a queue in almost any situation - almost certainly contributed to the lower survival rates among people from the United Kingdom.'

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