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From left to right: Fifth Officer Harold Lowe, Second Officer Charles Lightoller, Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall; Third Officer Herbert Pitman, seated The crew of the RMS Titanic were among the estimated 2,240 people who sailed on the maiden voyage of the second of the White Star Line 's Olympic -class ocean liners , from Southampton , England ...
Harold Godfrey Lowe was born in Llanrhos, Caernarvonshire, Wales, on 21 November 1882, the fourth of eight children, born to George Edward and Emma Harriette Quick.His father had ambitions for him to be apprenticed to a successful Liverpool businessman, but Lowe was determined to go to sea.
An experienced sailor, Lowe set up the lifeboat's mast and sail for better speed and maneuverability while searching for survivors, making it the only lifeboat to avail of sail power. [74] The boat rendezvoused with Carpathia at about 7:15 A.M. [45] Among the survivors in Lifeboat 14 were: Harold Godfrey Lowe (in charge) Eva Hart and her mother ...
Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912 . With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night.
The lifeboat was involved in an operation to rescue crew members of the SS Harold in 1908 which anchored near rocks between North Stack and South Stack. The third steam Lifeboat to serve at Holyhead, James Stevens No.3, was retired in 1928 when it was replaced by a motor-powered Watson-class lifeboat, H.C.J. (ON 708)
Today Scarborough's West Pier lifeboat station is run by the RNLI [Getty Images] A memorial service is being held on Sunday to remember three lifeboatmen who died in a storm 70 years ago.
At around 1:30 A.M., Wilde ordered Fifth Officer Harold Lowe, who had come to help fill Lifeboats 14 and 16, to board Lifeboat 14. [33] Sixth Officer Moody assisted Fifth Officer Lowe [34] but declined the offer of a place in the boat. The fourth officer, Boxhall, boarded Lifeboat 2 at around 1:45 A.M. [35]
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