Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Rule, Mr Samuel James
15 15 5.00


British Inquiry
Testimony of Samuel Rule
    6487. You got eventually to your boat, the aftermost boat on the starboard side? - Yes.
    6488. That is No. 15? - Yes.
    6489. Was she uncovered when you got to her? - Yes.
    6490. What did you do? - The time I got there Mr. Murdoch had given orders to see the plug and rudder shipped and the tiller shipped, and everything ready, and then to call the men together into the boat.
    6491. Mr. Murdoch was in charge then? - Yes.
    6492. He was the officer superintending? - Yes.
    6493. You say he called to the men to get into the boat. Will you tell us as nearly as you can what it was he said? - He said: "Some of you get into the boat." About six went in and he said: "That will do; no more; lower away to A deck and receive any women and children there are."
    6494. "Lower away to A deck"? - Yes.
    6495. Did you then go down to A deck? - I went along down the stairs to the boat and met her at A deck.
    6496. Before she was lowered to A deck had she taken any passengers at all? - No, there were no passengers there.
    6497. When you got to A deck was there an officer there? - There was someone in charge; I do not know who it was.
    6498. Did you hear him give any orders? - To get all the women and children into the boat that we could find.
  
    6523. (The Attorney-General.) When there were no more women and children, what orders were given to you? - Mr. Murdoch said, "Fill the boat up; take in what you have got there, and lower away."
    6524. "Take in what you have got there." What do you mean by that? Those already in the boat? - No, whoever was at the ship's side.

    6534. Were there any other boats left besides yours? - No, that was the last in the davits.
    6535. Then yours was the last boat to leave on the starboard side? - Yes.