Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Corr, Miss Ellen | 10 (2 votes) 14 (6 votes) |
10 (2 votes) 10 (6 votes) |
3.00 2.92 |
Murphy, Miss Catherine | 10 (2 votes) 14 (6 votes) |
10 (2 votes) 10 (6 votes) |
3.00 2.92 |
Murphy, Miss Margaret Jane | 10 (2 votes) 14 (6 votes) |
10 (2 votes) 10 (6 votes) |
3.00 2.92 |
Ellen Corr was almost certainly sharing a cabin and very likely a lifeboat with Kate and Margaret Murphy. They were all from County Longford, and Corr's ticket number is consecutive with the joint ticket issued to the sisters. From the Longford Leader, June 15, 1912: "The Murphy sisters and Miss Corr were on the tenth lifeboat and were only a few hundred yards away from the big ship when it went down; they could see everything that was going on on board. While their boat stood still at a short distance away, they saw each row of lights on the side of the ship go out as the ship gradually sank and eventually disappeared altogether, coming up again in a dark mass about 40 feet over the water, to again disappear for good." Bob Bracken obtained this information from the Murphy family. Margaret Murphy: "...got dressed and went on deck, where she saw the lifeboats being made ready. Thought about returning to her cabin, but her friend said not to. She entered the boat. During the night she was transferred to another boat. She was glad she was dressed as it was so cold. In the last boat but one." New York American, April 29, 1912. Margaret Murphy: "Later we were tied up to another boat and some people were pulled out of the water and saved". According to the accounts above, they could have been transferred to another boat, which would indicate they left Titanic in #14 . The reference to "the tenth boat" could refer to lifeboat #10. We disagreed on how to vote, but in no cases were we very sure. |