I came across a book from Edward P. De Groot where 3 pictures of Titanic lifeboats were named. Until that moment, I thought one of the pictures was from another lifeboat and the other pictures from unknown boats.
Here are the pictures:
1.
Mr. De Groot claimed this was Lifeboat 4, with mostly women & children and about 10 crew members.
2.
De Groot gave the following description to this picture: "one of the last boats to reach the Carpathia was Lifeboat 8. Most of the night the occupants of boat 8 had tried to reach the ship on the horizon"
3.
I always assumed this was boat 6, but De Groot claimed this was boat 12, with the man at the tiller being "a soaking wet, shivering Lightoller" wrapped in a cape.
What do you think of this?
Here are the pictures:
1.
Mr. De Groot claimed this was Lifeboat 4, with mostly women & children and about 10 crew members.
2.
De Groot gave the following description to this picture: "one of the last boats to reach the Carpathia was Lifeboat 8. Most of the night the occupants of boat 8 had tried to reach the ship on the horizon"
3.
I always assumed this was boat 6, but De Groot claimed this was boat 12, with the man at the tiller being "a soaking wet, shivering Lightoller" wrapped in a cape.
What do you think of this?