by Tim Maltin
As he watched a lifeboat of women being lowered to the sea, a crew member called up to ask if there were any women on his deck. My grandfather said there were not, and the crew member replied, “Then you had better jump.” To that chance interchange he owed his life, and his descendants theirs.
NICHOLAS WADE
1. With the evidence on the subject presented later he recognizes that Boat A floated away and was afterwards utilized.
1 Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
1. Temperature of water 28 degrees, of air 27 degrees Fahrenheit, at midnight, April 14th (American Inquiry, p. 1142).
2. Maturin’s Bertram.
1. British Report (p. 38) puts this boat first to leave port side at 12:55. Lightoller’s testimony shows it could not have been the first.
2. “An English girl (Miss Norton) and I rowed for four hours and a half.” —Mrs. Meyer in New York Times, April 14th, 1912.
3. British Report (p. 38) puts this boat second on port side at 1:10. Notwithstanding Seaman Fleet’s testimony (Am. Inq., p. 363), I think she must have preceded No. 6.
4. By the testimony of the witness and Steward Crawford it appears that Mr. and Mrs. Straus approached this boat and their maid got in, but Mr. Straus would not follow his wife and she refused to leave him.
5. British Report (p. 38) says third at 1:20. I think No. 6 went later, though Buley (Am. Inq., p. 604) claims No. 10 as the last lifeboat lowered.
6. British Report (p. 38) says this was the fourth boat lowered on port side at 1:25 a.m.
7. British Report (p. 38) says this was the fifth boat on the port side, lowered at 1:30.
8. Undoubtedly reference is here made to the same Japanese described in an account attributed to a second-class passenger, Mrs. Collyer, and which follows Crowe’s testimony.
9. British Report (p. 38) gives this as the sixth boat lowered from the port side at 1:35 a.m.
10. British Report (p. 38) gives this as the seventh boat lowered on the port side at 1:45 a.m.
11. Probably the same officer, Murdoch, described by Major Peuchen, p. 95, this chapter.
12. British Report (p. 38) says this was the eighth and last lifeboat that left the ship and lowered at 1:55 a.m.
13. Picked up from sea.
14. Picked up from sea but died in boat.
15. I agree with this statement though other testimony and the British Report decide against us. The difference may be reconciled by the fact that the loading of this boat began early, but the final lowering was delayed.
16. British Report (p. 38) puts this as the last boat lowered at 2:05.
17. The interval of time can then be approximated as nearly a half hour, that we remained on the ship after the lifeboats left.
1. First to leave ship starboard side at 12:45 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
2. Second boat lowered on the starboard side at 12:55 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
3. Dr. H. W. Frauenthal.
4. Third boat lowered on starboard side, 1:00 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
5. British Report (p. 38) says 15 crew, 10 men passengers, 25 women and children. Total 50.
6. “All boats were new and none transferred from another ship,” President Ismay’s testimony.
7. Seaman Lee testifies to this odor.
8. One of the Navratil children whose pathetic story has been fully related in the newspapers.
9. This was the fourth boat to leave the starboard side.
10. Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
11. The fifth boat lowered on starboard side, 1:20 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
12. Brice, A. B. (Am. Inq., p. 648) and Wheate, assistant second steward (Br. Inq.), say No. 9 was filled from A Deck with women and children only.
13. Sixth boat lowered on starboard side, 1:25 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
14. Seventh boat lowered on starboard side, 1:25 (Br. Rpt., p. 38).
15. Br. Rpt., p. 38, places this next to last lowered on starboard side at 1:35.
16. Br. Rpt., p. 38, makes this last boat lowered on starboard side at 1:40.
17. Body found in boat by Oceanic.
18. Died in boat.
19. Pulled into boat out of sea.
20. Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
21. Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
22. Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
23. Italics are mine. —AUTHOR.
