Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Bentham, Miss Lillian W. | 12 | 12 | 5.00 |
Renouf, Mrs Lillian Elizabeth | 12 | 12 | 5.00 |
Rugg, Miss Emily | 12 | 12 | 5.00 |
Miss Emily Rugg, in an account in The
Evening Journal, on April 20th 1912, told how
she had stayed with Mrs Renouf and Miss Lillian
Bentham “through the whole shipwreck.” In the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, April 15th 1931, she said, "Toward
morning we came upon one of the collapsible canvas
boats, in a sinking condition, with about 20 men on
it. They were huddled together, stiff and cold,
absolutely helpless.” Mrs. Rugg's account was corroborated in The
Morning Sun, Wilmington Delaware, April 20th
1912. In a letter to Walter Lord, written on July 23rd 1958, Miss Bentham, then Mrs Black, said that she was in boat 12 with Miss Emily Rugg. Mrs. Renouf, in the Guernsey Evening
Press for May 1st, 1912, says: |