Ryan Burns
Member
Greetings!
I've spent most of the night researching this, and I'm feeling pretty confident that this is Boat No. 10
Several reasons:
1) Assuming there was a man at the tiller, there are only 5 men in this boat. I've given them each a blue dot. There were around that many men in Boat 10.
2) The man pulling the oar in the top left doesn't appear to be wearing a cap like the other men rowing (all crewmen) and his hair his is jet black. Masabumi Hosono?
3) The child in the pink dot is a tiny, tiny infant. That's 2 month old Millvina Dean held by her mother Eva. I suspect Millvina's 2 year old brother Bertram is bundled up somewhere as well in that group.
4) Wrapped up next to the Dean's and dotted in baby blue is likely 11 month old Barbara West being held by her mother Ada. The child in the yellow dot facing the camera is likely Ada's other child, 4 and a half year old Constance.
5) The yellow dotted child facing away from the camera may be 8 year old Marshall Brines.
6) Perhaps most importantly, during my investigation, I discovered that only two other lifeboats had multiple babies (2 years old or under) and that was Lifeboats 11 and 15. But Boat 11 had 45 people and 15 men. So there's no way this is 11, and Boat 15 was packed with over 50 people, which this boat clearly isn't.
Thus, this is very, very likely a photograph of Boat 10.
I've spent most of the night researching this, and I'm feeling pretty confident that this is Boat No. 10
Several reasons:
1) Assuming there was a man at the tiller, there are only 5 men in this boat. I've given them each a blue dot. There were around that many men in Boat 10.
2) The man pulling the oar in the top left doesn't appear to be wearing a cap like the other men rowing (all crewmen) and his hair his is jet black. Masabumi Hosono?
3) The child in the pink dot is a tiny, tiny infant. That's 2 month old Millvina Dean held by her mother Eva. I suspect Millvina's 2 year old brother Bertram is bundled up somewhere as well in that group.
4) Wrapped up next to the Dean's and dotted in baby blue is likely 11 month old Barbara West being held by her mother Ada. The child in the yellow dot facing the camera is likely Ada's other child, 4 and a half year old Constance.
5) The yellow dotted child facing away from the camera may be 8 year old Marshall Brines.
6) Perhaps most importantly, during my investigation, I discovered that only two other lifeboats had multiple babies (2 years old or under) and that was Lifeboats 11 and 15. But Boat 11 had 45 people and 15 men. So there's no way this is 11, and Boat 15 was packed with over 50 people, which this boat clearly isn't.
Thus, this is very, very likely a photograph of Boat 10.
