Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Quick, Mrs Jane |
11 | 11 |
4.93 |
Quick, Miss Phyllis May |
11 | 11 |
4.93 |
Quick, Miss Winifred Vera |
11 | 11 |
4.93 |
Detroit Journal, April 20th 1912: "Mrs. Jane Quick, wife of Frederick Quick 383 Brooklyn Avenue, with her two daughters, one aged eight and the other three years, all survivors of the Titanic, also arrived on the same train with Mrs Hamlin. 'Jane!' cried a mans voice as Mrs. Quick prepared to step from the coach with her children. A man rushed up, unconscious of the stares of curious travellers, and took his wife in his arms. The two children danced with glee at the pleasure of being home again with their father. 'Oh Fred, it was terrible'', sobbed Mrs. Quick as she buried her head on her husband's shoulder, 'I never expected to see my loved ones again'. Mrs. Quick and her children came from Plymouth, England, to join her husband who works for a Detroit contractor. With her children Mrs. Quick was placed in lifeboat 11.'' In a letter to her mother, on April 25th 1912, Jane mentioning climbing an iron ladder to reach the boats. In an interview given in 1953, Jane said, “A man approached and asked if he could help me. I asked him to hold my baby while I put on a lifebelt. Another man put one on my little girl. She screamed with fear. She was afraid she was going to be tossed into the water. They were getting ready the eleventh lifeboat and several of the men told me to climb up to it. They helped us into the boat. There were as calm as though helping a woman into a taxicab I did not realize then that these men knew there was no chance for their lives. No sooner were we in than they began lowering the boat. That part was horrible. They lowered it 70 feet and just as it touched the water a deck hand yelled, ‘For Gods sake row fast or the suction with take you’. There were about 40 on the boat and no one spoke except Winnie. She became hysterical. That was about 12:30 o’clock." Almost all members of the group were confident that the Quick family were in lifeboat 11. However, Mrs James Drew, in one of her accounts, said that she was in the same boat as Mrs Quick. Some doubt about the boat which the Drews left the Titanic has been expressed, as we have them in either #11 or #10. This in turn caused two members to vote lower. Corroborated by Titanic Commutator, Volume 17, No.2, "The Night God Chose Between the Quicks and the Dead" by George Behe. |