Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Connolly, Miss Catherine | 13 (7 votes) 14 (1 vote) |
13 (7 votes) 14 (1 vote) |
2.71 2.00 |
Smyth, Miss Julia | 13 (7 votes) 14 (1 vote) |
13 (7 votes) 14 (1 vote) |
2.71 2.00 |
Oral family history from Miss Connolly's great grandson, David Arkins: "The women and the rest of the third class were trapped in steerage. But the two Irish men they had met before had gotten in with some second-class passengers and found a way out of third class. Feeling a loyalty to their fellow countrywomen, they came back for all four women from County Cavan and brought them up to second class. From there they were able to reach open air and find a lifeboat. Kate also met up with a second-class passenger who had three girls, including a 2-year-old, and she helped the family get into a lifeboat. While being lowered, the lifeboat was nearly crushed by the lifeboat above it due to tangled wires, but they were cut at the last minute and the lifeboat managed to row to safety just in the nick of time." Note that the story about the lifeboat descending on top of theirs matches the experience of lifeboat #13. Miss Smyth wrote the following letter to her mother shortly after the disaster, quoted in On Board RMS Titanic, page 400: "There was thousand before me and Katie jumped ought into the boat.only my legs was long I would never made it." It is unclear which lifeboat Smyth was in, but she does mention that she and Kate Connolly got into the same boat. Miss Connolly's account is second hand, otherwise we'd likely have given the two a higher level. |