Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Beckwith, Mr Richard Leonard 5 5 5.00
Beckwith, Mrs Sallie 5 5 5.00
Behr, Mr Karl Howell 5 5 5.00
Newsom, Miss Helen Monypeny 5 5 5.00

 

From the Newark Advocate (Ohio), April 19th 1912:
     “A mate stood close by them and Bruce Ismay was near the mate. Both of them gave orders for families to keep together, and said that everyone could go, as there was room for all. The Beckwiths were placed in the second boat, which was lowered from the ship. There were hardly enough people to man the boat and Mr Beckwith and Behr took oars and rowed all night.”

Dictated letter by Karl Behr, in New York after the Carpathia got in (On Board RMS Titanic page 208):
     “We were a party of four, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Beckwith, their daughter, Miss Helen W. Newsom, and myself. …… We then went to the second boat, which had about forty in it. Mr. Ismay himself directed the launching splendidly. …… We stopped rowing when far enough out and transferred some of our passengers to another boat, probably the first one launched.”

An account by Richard Beckwith, given to Mrs. Beckwith's brother also written in New York (
On Board RMS Titanic page 193), gives the same details.
     "The Beckwiths were placed in the second boat, which was lowered from the ship. There were hardly enough people to man the boat and Mr. Beckwith and [Karl] Behr took oars and rowed all night."

Mr Behr gave the same details in a longer account written in 1944.  Archibald Gracie's book The Truth About the Titanic also places them in Lifeboat 5.

Corroborated by The New York Times, April 20th 1912, and a typed account in the collection of Walter Lord.