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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.
[5] [6] They are also included in the list of passengers on board RMS Titanic. Crew members are colour-coded, indicating whether they were saved or perished. The crew member did not survive The crew member survived Survivors are listed with the lifeboat from which they were known to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia, on 15 April 1912.
[77] [31] By this time Titanic was listing to port, making it increasingly difficult to launch lifeboats from that side of the ship, as the ship's list had created a gap of about 3 feet (0.9 m) between the deck and the sides of the port-side lifeboats. An attempt to board by a young French woman nearly ended in disaster when she jumped towards ...
George Thomas Macdonald Symons (23 February 1888 – 3 December 1950) was a British sailor who worked as a lookout on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic. Symons, who was 24 at the time of the sinking of the ship, was put in charge of one of the first lifeboats to be launched, lifeboat #1. The boat was an emergency cutter which was launched with ...
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 ...
Reginald Robinson Lee (19 May 1870 – 6 August 1913) was a British sailor who served as a lookout aboard the Titanic in April 1912. He was on duty with Frederick Fleet in the crow's nest when the ship collided with an iceberg at 23:40 on 14 April 1912; both Lee and Fleet survived the sinking.
Prentice signed on to Titanic ' s crew on 4 April 1912 as an assistant storekeeper, having transferred from another White Star liner, Celtic. He boarded Titanic in Southampton on 10 April 1912 and the ship set sail for New York that same day. [2] On 14 April 1912 at 11.40 pm, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink.
On Titanic ' s sailing day, 10 April, Moody assisted, among other things, in aiding Fifth Officer Lowe in lowering two of the starboard lifeboats to satisfy the Board of Trade that Titanic met safety standards. 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 ...