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There
are confilcting accounts. Some indicate
Collapsible B, others that Mr. Moss was ordered into a
lifeboat from a deck.
In the Chester Times of
April 24, 1912, Mr. Moss was standing among other
passengers when the mate of the Titanic asked
whether he was a seafaring man. Getting an
affirmative answer, the officer commanded him into
one of the lifeboats.
The Nordiske Tidende, April 25th
1912 disagrees.
"I was so lucky, I can
almost say, to be beaten overboard when the funnel
fell. That is, I was washed down by the wave that
rose after it. I had dressed well, first put on
these clothes, then a life belt, then on the outside
a raincoat and an ordinary outer coat. I thought to
throw them away, as they might be too heavy, but
decided that the life belt should hold. There were
many who undressed, but that was pure madness.�
How long were you in the water?"
"It must have been an hour," I
think, "though it is not good to calculate. I swam
around; soon I saw a light here and saw a light
there, and each time I thought what I saw last was
closest. I came up on a raft what they call a
�collapsible boat.� It is a flat tank that cannot
sink. It was capsized, but we were standing on the
keel - about 30 men, I think. "
"
These two accounts do not agree in the least, we
concluded we could not determine which lifeboat he
was in.
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