Emily Richards and sons

So sad¡ but she survived!!!!!

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but after accepting the more likely probability that Anna Hamalainen and her baby son Wiljo were rescued on Lifeboat #10 rather than #4, I have been checking into other 2nd class survivors whose lifeboats were uncertain. PE-K has consistently argued that in his opinion no Second Class survivor was rescued on any forward lifeboat, but I find that opinion to be rather too fixed. For instance, there is no doubt that William Mellors was rescued on Collapsible A but as that lifeboat floated free rather than being launched and Mellors had to swim to reach it, it cannot be used as evidence against PE-K's view.However, Emily Richards and her two children Sibley and William provide better evidence that they were indeed rescued on Lifeboat #4. Although no lifeboat is specifically mentioned in their ET bios, the introductory note on Lifeboat #4 itself indicates that they were in fact on that boat (but their names are curiously missing in the list that follows). Emily said that her two sons, her mother Eliza Hocking and herself were "pushed through a window" into the lifeboat; that could only have been Lifeboat #4. Further, Emily Richards said that they picked up seven more men out of the water - again true for Lifeboat #4.

Good post Arun.I agree that the idea that no second class survivors boarded any forward lifeboat is hard to believe. With a number of third class survivors boarding forward boats, then second class passengers must have been in and around that part of the boat deck as well.