Because on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the Armistice to end the War to End All Wars was signed, bringing an end to the hostilities of...
First class passengers were the first allowed in the lifeboats with most lifeboats admitting women and children first then filling the remaining seats with any other first class men.
They say women and children went first and then first class people which was unfair because first class people were the most rich ones, so the poorer people had to wait last or find so other way of...