Greetings, everyone.
I hope I'm not repeating a question that was already posted, and no one finds the nature of it too weird, but I wanted to know the answer to that.
From what I have read in posts around here, it seems that Lifeboat 4 went back to the place where the Titanic sank immediately after the sinking and picked up either 8 or 9 people, two of which later died. And later on, Lifeboat 14 went back and picked up 4 more people, one of which died.
However, in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember - or at least, in the Portuguese translation that I own - it is said that only Lifeboat 14 went back, and Lifeboat 4 picked up those 8 people not because it went back to the site, but because it hadn't gone too far away.
Yet, like I said, many posts on this forum say that Lifeboat 4 went back to the site of the sinking.
I know that it has been almost sixty years of research since Walter Lord wrote A Night To Remember, but I would say that that particular tidbit of information could have been known feasibly back in the 1950s.
So, regarding this particular fact... is that something that Walter Lord got wrong when he wrote his book? Could it have been a mistake by the translator? Or is there some other explanation for it?
Well... this is it. Thank you to anyone who answers.
I hope I'm not repeating a question that was already posted, and no one finds the nature of it too weird, but I wanted to know the answer to that.
From what I have read in posts around here, it seems that Lifeboat 4 went back to the place where the Titanic sank immediately after the sinking and picked up either 8 or 9 people, two of which later died. And later on, Lifeboat 14 went back and picked up 4 more people, one of which died.
However, in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember - or at least, in the Portuguese translation that I own - it is said that only Lifeboat 14 went back, and Lifeboat 4 picked up those 8 people not because it went back to the site, but because it hadn't gone too far away.
Yet, like I said, many posts on this forum say that Lifeboat 4 went back to the site of the sinking.
I know that it has been almost sixty years of research since Walter Lord wrote A Night To Remember, but I would say that that particular tidbit of information could have been known feasibly back in the 1950s.
So, regarding this particular fact... is that something that Walter Lord got wrong when he wrote his book? Could it have been a mistake by the translator? Or is there some other explanation for it?
Well... this is it. Thank you to anyone who answers.