![]() ![]() The First Class passenger Thomson Beattie, the third class passengers Arthur Keefe, Edvard Lindell and Gerda Lindell and a couple of firemen were amongst the seven or eight who did not make it alive to be rescued by the Carpathia. Passengers climbed back in from the water but many either died of hypothermia or fell back into the water. In the ensuing confusion the canvas sides did not get pulled up properly as the over loaded boat drifted from the Titanic. Charles Edward Andrews Assistant Saloon StewardĬollapsible Lifeboat A reached the deck in the correct upright position however it got washed overboard.stewardess Violet Jessop who was aboard boat 16 was unique in that she survived all the Olympic class accidents - the collision of Olympic with HMS Hawke in 1911, the sinking of Titanic in 1912 and the loss of Britannic in 1916. When it reached the Carpathia there were said to be some forty people aboard. Order of Lifeboat Launchesīoat 16 was loaded with mostly women and children it is thought mainly from second and third class, supervised by Sixth Officer James Moody. This project will list those survivors who were in Lifeboats One, Two, and Three and attempt to describe the unthinkable nightmare they would have experienced, though mere words will be inadequate. The aim of this group of projects is to list those survivors linked to the lifeboat they were rescued in so that we can get a clearer picture of who experienced that nightmare together and what their reactions were under such severe stress and fear. The total number of survivors on the night of 14-15 April 1912 was only 706. Had the twenty been used as intended they could have carried 1,178 of the 2,224 on board. The ship was built with all the most up to date safety measures however there were only enough lifeboats to carry a fraction of the passengers and crew should the unthinkable happen which did happen. There were Twenty Lifeboats aboard the Titanic on that fateful journey that ended so disastrously. Titanic Survivors of Lifeboats Sixteen, A, B, C, & D
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