Name	Lifeboat from Titanic	Lifeboat to Carpathia	Confidence Level
McDermott, Miss Bridget Delia	?	?	1.00

We were able to track down a number of accounts for this lady, and one is only partial.

We do have a full account from The St Louis Republic, Thursday, May 23, 1912, shortly after the sinking.  It relates:

   "Officers ran down to say there was nothing the matter, and some returned to their beds. Others refused to be pacified, however, and when the orders to lower away the boats and the tramping on the upper decks were heard they cried out we were trapped so the cabin passengers could escape. It was then that the officers had to fire on some of the men to keep them quiet.
   Then an officer burst into the room and shouted that there was no time for praying if we wanted to save our lives, and those of us who could went above and got into the boats.

   I don’t remember clearly how I got into a boat. I was pushed in some way and fell, striking on my face and injuring my teeth so that most of them had to be taken out after we reached New York.”

  Miss McDermott was in the water eight hours before picked up by the Carpathia. She saw the Titanic sink, and says it floated apart following an explosion, and went down in two sections. The band was playing “Nearer My God, to Thee,” she said, when the ship went under."

The partial account, which we only have second hand, is from The Connaught Telegraph, for an unknown date.  It said her boat held a lot of water, and that there were no men in the boat, only sailors.  And she jumped down fifteen feet into the boat.

The North Mayo Historical Journal from 1995/6, has a short piece on Bridget, which recounts:
  "She was one of the first to find a place in a lifeboat but remembered she had a new hat in her cabin and returned for it.  She was saved as she got a place in another boat."  
This story was repeated in her November 4 1959 obituary in the Jersey Journal, though the 'hat' was turned into 'clothes'.

These accounts are very different from the first account, and adds the detail that she was going to get into an early lifeboat but went back for her hat/clothes

Researcher Don Lynch corresponded with her granddaughter in the 1980s.  This grandaughter said her grandmother would never speak about the Titanic.  However this doesn't agree with the North Mayo and obituary accounts.

The early account mentions shots being fired, which suggests lifeboat #14, but is not definite.  After reviewing the evidence, we all agreed what evidence we did have did not agree, and we did not have enough other evidence to place her in any lifeboat, hence a vote of '1' for unknown lifeboat.