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Message: [QUOTE="Arun Vajpey, post: 446832, member: 146608"] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]I was looking at the handful of male passengers who survived on port side lifeboats and one of them is Second Class passenger [B]Charles Eugene Williams [/B]who survived on Lifeboat #14. In fact Williams and Masabumi Hosono (#10) were the only two male adult Second Class passengers who survived on port side lifeboats. I am interested in finding out how Williams made it into Lifeboat #14 where no men passengers were allowed to enter even though there was room. In his testimony at he American Inquiry, Fifth Officer Lowe claimed that he took on Williams to help with the rowing. Lowe even mentioned the fact that Williams was a racquet player (which he was) and his Harrow address in England.[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Senator SMITH. Who had charge of the loading of lifeboat No. 14? Mr. LOWE. I had. Senator SMITH. And how many people did you put into it? Mr. LOWE. Fifty-eight. Senator SMITH. How many women; do you know? Mr. LOWE. They were all women and children, bar one passenger, who was an Italian, and he sneaked in, and he was dressed like a woman. [Possibly [URL='https://www.titanicinquiry.org/outsidelinks.php#r']Edward Ryan[/URL]] Senator SMITH. Had woman's clothing on? [B]Mr. LOWE. He had a shawl over his head, and everything else; and I only found out at the last moment. And there was another passenger that I took for rowing. Senator SMITH. Who was that? Mr. LOWE. That was a chap by the name of [URL='https://www.titanicinquiry.org/outsidelinks.php#w']C. Williams[/URL].[/B] Senator SMITH. Where did he live? Mr. LOWE. I do not know where he lived. Senator SMITH. Have you ever seen him since? Mr. LOWE. Yes; I saw him since, on board the [I]Carpathia[/I]. Senator SMITH. Was he one of the men whose names you have on that paper? Mr. LOWE. I have his name; that is, his home address, but not his New York address. Senator SMITH. I would like his home address. Mr. LOWE. I can give you that. Will you have it now? Senator SMITH. Yes; also the name of any other man or woman in the boat that you know, and their address. Mr. LOWE. ([I]referring to book[/I]) "C. Williams, racket champion of the world," he has here, "No. 2 Drury Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England."[/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]Despite that testimony, the fact that Charles Williams was allowed to enter Lifeboat #14 by Lowe to help with the rowing is not mentioned in most leading [I]Titanic[/I] works. In [I]On A Sea Of Glass[/I], he just is mentioned as one of that lifeboats occupants but not how he got on board. AFAIK, that part of Lowe's testimony is mentioned only in Paul Quinn's book [I]Dusk to Dawn[/I]. I wondered if this was because there was any doubt about the circumstances of Charles Williams' rescue. I ask because, he could have been confused with Charles Duane Williams (Richard Norris Williams' father) who died in the disaster, presumably one of those caught under Funnel No:1 when it toppled over late in the sinking. Or with another Second class male survivor Charles Whilems, also from the London area but rescued on Lifeboat #9.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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