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Note - All times are based on testimony at the British Enquiry into
the disaster. The number of occupants in many of the boats
was estimated by witnesses who testified in both the American and
British Enquiries into the disaster. The numbers cannot be totally
accurate, seeing as they total up to several more than
the 705 people who were rescued.
Time Launched |
Boat # |
Capacity
|
# Occupants |
Side |
In Command |
12:45 |
7 |
65 |
27 |
starboard |
Mr. George Alfred Hogg |
12:55 |
5 |
65 |
41 |
starboard |
Herbert Pittman |
12:55 |
6 |
65 |
28 |
port |
Quartermaster Robert Hichens |
1:00 |
3 |
65 |
50 |
starboard |
Able Bodied Seaman George Moore |
1:00 |
1 |
40 |
12 |
starboard |
Lookout George Symons |
1:15 |
8 |
65 |
39 |
port |
William Thomas |
1:20 |
10 |
65 |
60-70 |
port |
Able Seaman Edward Buley |
1:20 |
9 |
65 |
56 |
starboard |
Albert Haines |
1:25 |
12 |
65 |
16-18 |
port |
John Poingdestre |
1:30 |
14 |
65 |
63 |
port |
Harold Lowe |
1:30 |
13 |
65 |
64 |
starboard |
Frederick Barrett |
1:35 |
16 |
65 |
40 |
port |
Master of Arms Bailey |
1:35 |
15 |
67 |
70 |
starboard |
Fireman Frank Dymond |
1:40 |
C |
47 |
39 |
starboard |
Quartermaster George Rowe |
1:45 |
2 |
40 |
26 |
port |
Boxhall |
1:45 |
11 |
65 |
70 |
starboard |
James Humphreys |
1:55 |
4 |
65 |
29 |
port |
Perkis |
2:05 |
D |
47 |
44 |
port |
Quartermaster John Bright |
2:20 |
A |
47 |
13? |
starboard |
- |
2:20 |
B |
47 |
30? |
port |
2nd Officer Lightoller |
* Collapsible boats "A" and "B"
were never physically launched, they were washed off the ship.
Collapsible "B" was upside down, and no occupants aboard when it left the
ship,
but aprox. 30-40 men finally got on and stood on the overturned
boat.
The canvas sides of Collapsible "A" had not yet been raised,
so when it washed off the deck it was swamped by people.
Occupants of the boat had to stand in knee deep water until they were
rescued.
Many in the boat died in the night of exposure before being rescued.
Three dead bodies were left in collapsible A as she was cast adrift.
A month after the sinking, the ship Oceanic came across the boat
bobbing in the open sea not far from where Titanic had sank.
Sir Shane Leslie, who was aboard the Oceanic, recalled:
"the sea was calm at noon when the watch called out that something
could be seen floating ahead. The ship slowed down and it was apparent that
the object was an open ship's lifeboat floating in mid Atlantic.
What was horrifying is that it contained three prostrate figures.
Orders from the bridge dispatched a lifeboat with an officer and a medical
officer.
What followed was ghastly. Two sailors could be seen, their hair bleached
by
exposure to sun and salt, and a third figure, wearing evening dress, flat
on the benches.
All three were dead and the bodies had been tossing on the Atlantic swell
under the open sky ever since it had seen the greatest of ocean liners sink.
The three bodies were sewn into canvas bags with a steel bar at the end of
each.
Then one after the other the bodies were draped in the Union Jack,
the burial service was read, and they splashed into the sea."
The following table shows the numbers of :
the male crew, male passengers, and women and children who,
according to the evidence in The British Enquiry,
left the ship in each boat.
boat# |
men-crew |
men-passengers |
women & children |
total |
7 |
3 |
4 |
20 |
27 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
30 |
41 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
24 |
28 |
3 |
15 |
10 |
25 |
50 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
2 |
12 |
8 |
4 |
- |
35 |
39 |
10 |
5 |
- |
50 |
- |
9 |
8 |
6 |
42 |
56 |
12 |
4 |
1 |
21 |
26 |
14 |
2 |
- |
40 |
- |
13 |
5 |
- |
59 |
64 |
16 |
8 |
2 |
53 |
63 |
15 |
13 |
4 |
53 |
70 |
C |
5 |
2 |
64 |
71 |
2 |
6 |
- |
50 |
- |
11 |
9 |
1 |
60 |
70 |
4 |
4 |
- |
36 |
- |
D |
2 |
2 |
40 |
44 |
A |
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|
B |
|
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Plus in addtion about 60 people, two of whom
were women,
were said to have been transferred, from A & B collapsible boats
to other boats, and were also rescued from the water,
making a total of 914 who escaped the sinking alive.
It's clear these figures are unreliable, because only 705-712 were
in fact, rescued by the Carpathia, and all lifeboats were accounted for.
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disclaimer:
The lifeboat occupancy lists are at best an educated guess
based on a comparison of survivor recollections,
official inquiries, other written sources and basic arithmetic.
So the above list is a suggested occupancy.
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