Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Abelseth, Miss Karen Marie | 16? |
16? | 2.00 |
"I was the last who went in that lifeboat, and there was only one lifeboat left..." [Note: As can be seen, no specific
lifeboat number is mentioned here.]
Interview source: Sondmoorsposten, May 28, 1912: "At 6
o’clock we saw a ship far away, and then we were
very glad as you can imagine. We came alongside the
ship at 7 o’clock..." [Note: We don't know if
Miss Abelseth's watch was set correctly, but the
lifeboat arrival sequence on page 144 of Samuel
Halpern's Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic:
A Centennial Reappraisal estimates that
boat #16 reached the Carpathia at around 6:45 a.m.]
Paraphrased account from the Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1912: Edwin Lundstrom stated that he was on deck with a group of fellow steerage passengers including the Klasens, the Sandstroms, Karen Abelseth, Hilda Hillstrom and Elida Olsson. He claimed to have put the Sandstroms in the '13th boat', and saw the rest of them up to the next boat, and was pushed back. [Note: This description suggests Miss Abelseth might have been in boat #15, but the specific details are hazy.] Source of this information:
TITANIC: 31 Norwegian Destinies, by Per
Kristian Sebak.
Karen Abelseth
is said to have arrived on deck just as boat #14 was
departing. She is also said to have claimed she was
the last passenger to enter boat #16. [Note: Scarrott
and Morris both testified that boat #16 left the ship
before #14, not vice versa).
Although
Miss Abelseth might have been in boat #16, other
possibilities exist as well.
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