Name	Lifeboat from Titanic	Lifeboat to Carpathia	Confidence Level
Portaluppi, Mr Emilio Ilario Giuseppe	?	?	1.00

Portaluppi gave the following account in the Worcester Telegram on April 20, 1912:
“He hurried to the deck, strapped a life preserver around him and following the example of others, leaped into the sea. With the aid of the preserver and by holding on to a cake of ice he managed to keep afloat. He was seen by one of the lifeboats and picked up. There were 35 other people in the boat when he was hauled aboard.”

In an account in The Milford Cabinet, date unknown, Portaluppi claimed the following:
“Mr Portalupi found that a boat near him was being lowered and was only partly filled with people. No women were about on the deck where he stood, and he attempted to get into the lifeboat. Luck was against him, or seemed to be, for he lost his footing and fell into the ocean. The feelings of a man falling from the deck of a ship which he believes to be sinking, in the middle of the night, a thousand miles from land, into an ocean littered by floating ice and of freezing temperature, can best be imagined.
    When he hit the water Mr Portalupi found that he was not alone. and many others were swimming or floating in the icy, numbing water. At once he struck out and had succeeded in putting four or five hundred yards between himself and the ship before she took the final plunge. Chilled through by the water, weighed by his clothing, and supported only by the life-belt, the swimmer watched the enormous liner slip quietly beneath the waves. So quietly and gradually did she go that the man in the water felt no suction and only a big wave marked the final submerging. What the effect was in closer proximity to the ship Mr Portalupi of course cannot tell.
    As time went on and the first streaks of dawn made it possible to distinguish objects the half-frozen man in the water saw near him a woman, supported by a life preserver, and also a child which had succumbed to the cold and died. One of the lifeboats, passing near, came within ear shot, and the crew rescued the man and woman, pulling both into the boat. Here also the cold was almost intolerable, and of the men and women in the frail craft, three died from the exposure before the Carpathia reached them. Their bodies were taken aboard and buried at sea.  Once on board the Carpathia every attention and kindness was showed to those who had been rescued, but the horror of the night was on them and the lapse of years will not efface it. As fast as possible the names of the rescued were flashed ashore by the Carpathia 's wireless, and here it was that the mistake occurred which made the report that Mrs Portalupi had been saved. When New York was reached the custom house regulations were suspended and the survivors were again showed every courtesy.
    …From his severe experience Mr Portalupi has suffered little physical harm, and aside from a cold and lameness contracted during his two hour bath in the icy water, he is as well as ever.”

Portaluppi gave another interview in The Times on April 20, 1912:
    "In the boat in which Mr. Portaluppi was rescued, he says there was room for at least 10 more people.  Three men died from exposure before they were rescued.”

In all of his published accounts, Portaluppi claims to have been in the water.  Some details of his accounts sound similar to the events that happened in boat #4.  However, there is no known evidence to support his claims.

It has been speculated that Portaluppi was one of the four individuals pulled from the water into boat #14.  However, this is not possible, since the evidence, we believe, supports that those four individuals were William Hoyt, possibly Fang Lang, Harold Phillimore, and Thomas Street.  Due to the lack of detail and supporting evidence, we voted 1 for no particular boat.