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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 ...
Basing lifeboat capacity on the number of passengers and crew instead of ship tonnage, conducting lifeboat drills so passengers know where their lifeboats are and crew know how to operate them, instituting manned 24-hour wireless (radio) communications on all passenger ships, and requiring mandatory transmissions of ice warnings to ships, were ...
Within the water, Lifeboat 10 pulled 200 yards away from the Titanic and managed to unite with Lifeboats 4, 12, 14 and D. Evans reported seeing the Titanic split into two between the 3rd and 4th funnels. Evans was then ordered by Harold Lowe to transfer to Lifeboat 14 and later returned to the Titanic in an attempt to find any remaining survivors.
After the ship sinks, Aase is knocked off the lifeboat by Doonan after she recognizes him, and he attempts to hold the passengers in the boat hostage at gunpoint, but Officer Lowe, who is in charge of the boat, hits Doonan in the head with an oar, snapping his neck and killing him.
He was also in charge of closing the last gangway, and most likely saved the lives of six crewmen who arrived too late to board by turning them away. Moody was assembled with men for the ship's lifeboat drill and along with Lowe, was selected to take charge of two lifeboats chosen for testing, boats Nos 11 and 13. Lowe took 11 and Moody took 13 ...
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Andy Webb for The Movie Scene stated that several of the scenes feel as though they were "cram[med] in", which indicated to Webb that the piece was originally intended to be a mini-series rather than the 105 minutes it ended up as. Webb also stated that the film was "quite good" for a Danielle Steel movie, with good costumes and camera work.