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American Inquiry
Testimony of George Rowe, page 519
Mr. ROWE. I took them [the
distress signals] to the forebridge and turned them
over to the fourth officer. I assisted the officer
to fire them, and was firing the distress signals
until about five and twenty minutes after 1. At that
time they were getting out the starboard collapsible
boats. The chief officer, Wilde, wanted a sailor. I
asked Capt. Smith if I should fire any more, and he
said "No; get into that boat." I went to the boat.
Women and children were being passed in. I assisted
six, three women and three children. The order was
then given to lower the boat. The chief officer
wanted to know if there were more women and
children. There were none in the vicinity. Two
gentlemen passengers got in; the boat was then
lowered. When we reached the water we steered for a
light in sight, roughly 5 miles. We pulled through
the night, but seemed to get no nearer to the
lights. So we altered our course back to a boat that
was carrying a green light. During that time
daylight broke and the Carpathia was in sight.
Senator BURTON. There was
nothing special about your getting on the Carpathia?
Mr. ROWE. No, sir. In the
meantime I found that one of the two gentlemen was
Mr. Ismay. I don't know who the other was.
Thirty-nine in the boat, all told.
The starboard boat he took charge of
was Collapsible C.
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