Which is your favourite lifeboat

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João Carlos Pereira Martins

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I know that some lifeboats are more famous than others, not just by the passengers they carried but by their crew's actions during the sinking night. Personally, I prefer the starboard boats, specially No3 and No7, not only because both of them were launched in the early hours of the night but also by the passengers on them, like the Cardezas, Alfred Nourney and some young couples like the Bishops. My preferences are also influenced by the fact that Murdoch launched these boats and he is my favourite officer.I would like to hear the opinians of other members about this issue.
 
If I were a passenger, I would answer as Michael S. did, and when I was safely on Carpathia,I would tear a piece out of that boat as a talisman.

If I snapped up a Titanic book, I would look for references to Boat 6. Fleet, Peuchen, Molly Brown and Hitchens. Who complained? Who kept still? What was said? What was heard? There must've been stuff for a story.
 
Does anyone know how many people got into more than one lifeboat, and were saved? Delia McDermott for instance was in a lifeboat, noted she had forgotten her hat and went back to retrieve it. She then got into Lifeboat 13.

Thanks
 
Miss Kornelia Andrews, a first class lady, reported that she tried to enter in Lifeboat 6 and Lifeboat 8 but both of them didn't have room for her (it's ridiculous because these boats were launched half-full). She finally entered Lifeboat 10. I'll try to find more useful information for you, Mick.

João
 
I think I've found something!Mrs. Anna Lahtinen got into a lifeboat but then declined and prefer to stay with her husband.However, Miss Silvén, a friend of the couple, entered another lifeboat and Mr. Lahtinen tried to convince his wife and she entered with many doubts. But later she returned to her husband and both died.

Regards,

João
 
I'd like to have been in boat 6 to get the details of what really happened when the iceberg was first sighted while folks were still candid. And two of the key players Marilyn mentioned happened to be there.
 
It's true that the Andrews party reported trying to get into earlier boats that were full. The Minahans reported something similar. I would hesitate to take this at face value, however.

It's been reported that Miss Funk got out of a lifeboat to give her seat to another lady, and also that Stella Sage entered one at one point. I don't know if these things are true.

Constance Willard, according to Walter Lord, refused to enter lifeboat 8 but then got into 4.
 
I would like to know more about Lifeboat #5. I have read the official accounts and several online tales that, based on knowledge from the family of survivors or even later photos of the survivors, are likely not able to be true or do not take into account the physically precarious setting or perhaps the emotionally charged perceptions of those present. I have come to doubt their veracity. I believe it was one of the first three lowered.
 

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