Can anyone verify the direction the wind came from after 3-30am on the morning of the 15th?
I ask this because of what 5th.Officer Lowe said in his evidence relative to how he handled boat 14 under sail.
"Mr. LOWE.
And by and by, I noticed a collapsible boat [D], and it looked rather sorry, so I thought, "Well, I will go down and pick her up and make sure of her." So I went about and sailed down to this collapsible, and took her in tow."
Lowe was trained in sail so did not use the term "went about" in a casual manner.
In sailing terms, to 'go about' means to change the direction you are sailing in by turning the boat to bring the wind from being on one side of the boat to its opposite side . i.e. if you were sailing SE and the wind was from the East blowing on your port side, you would turn the boat to the left, swinging the bow across the wind so that it then blew on your starboard side.
Lowe was in boat 14. he returned from searching for survivors and took collapsible D in tow toward Carpathia. He had left D beside boats 12,10 and 8 when he went to search for survivors.
Just after he started towing D, he saw the people in collapsible A - changed course by 'going about'- and went over and picked them up before 'going about' again and resuming his course toward Carpathia.
We can make an educated guess from evidence given that collapsible A would have been nearly over the spot where Titanic's bridge disappeared below the waves - almost 200 yards from collapsible D which was about 150 yards off the port side of Titanic when she went down. We also can also assume that the main concentration of bodies would have been about 150 yards in the other direction from D - directly over where Titanic's stern disappeared.
Lifeboat 14 was fitted with a dipping lugsail - a very inefficient rig. It would not have sailed as well as Lowe described if the wind was any less than 45 degrees on either bow.
With the foregoing information, I have developed a rough sketch of how the scenario might have been acted out that morning. True to my conviction, I have shown Titanic heading west and the wind coming from the north.
Lowe used the term 'sailed down to her' twice. The first time when he went to collapsible D and the second when he went to collapsible A. If by 'down', he meant sailed 'south', then Titanic would have to have been heading in that direction since Collapsible A was in the direction of Titanic's bow relevant to the position of collapsible D,
Whatever way Titanic was heading when she sank, Lowe would have to have taken his boat to the left to get to collapsible A before heading for Carpathia.
I ask this because of what 5th.Officer Lowe said in his evidence relative to how he handled boat 14 under sail.
"Mr. LOWE.
And by and by, I noticed a collapsible boat [D], and it looked rather sorry, so I thought, "Well, I will go down and pick her up and make sure of her." So I went about and sailed down to this collapsible, and took her in tow."
Lowe was trained in sail so did not use the term "went about" in a casual manner.
In sailing terms, to 'go about' means to change the direction you are sailing in by turning the boat to bring the wind from being on one side of the boat to its opposite side . i.e. if you were sailing SE and the wind was from the East blowing on your port side, you would turn the boat to the left, swinging the bow across the wind so that it then blew on your starboard side.
Lowe was in boat 14. he returned from searching for survivors and took collapsible D in tow toward Carpathia. He had left D beside boats 12,10 and 8 when he went to search for survivors.
Just after he started towing D, he saw the people in collapsible A - changed course by 'going about'- and went over and picked them up before 'going about' again and resuming his course toward Carpathia.
We can make an educated guess from evidence given that collapsible A would have been nearly over the spot where Titanic's bridge disappeared below the waves - almost 200 yards from collapsible D which was about 150 yards off the port side of Titanic when she went down. We also can also assume that the main concentration of bodies would have been about 150 yards in the other direction from D - directly over where Titanic's stern disappeared.
Lifeboat 14 was fitted with a dipping lugsail - a very inefficient rig. It would not have sailed as well as Lowe described if the wind was any less than 45 degrees on either bow.
With the foregoing information, I have developed a rough sketch of how the scenario might have been acted out that morning. True to my conviction, I have shown Titanic heading west and the wind coming from the north.
Lowe used the term 'sailed down to her' twice. The first time when he went to collapsible D and the second when he went to collapsible A. If by 'down', he meant sailed 'south', then Titanic would have to have been heading in that direction since Collapsible A was in the direction of Titanic's bow relevant to the position of collapsible D,
Whatever way Titanic was heading when she sank, Lowe would have to have taken his boat to the left to get to collapsible A before heading for Carpathia.