Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Salomon, Mr Abraham Lincoln | 1 | 1 | 5.00 |
Stengel, Mr Charles Emil Henry | 1 | 1 | 5.00 |
American Inquiry Testimony of Charles Stengel, page 971-972 Mr. STENGEL. I turned toward the bow. I do not know what led me there, but there was a small boat that they called an emergency boat, in which there were three people, Sir Duff Gordon and his wife and Miss Francatelli. I asked the officer - I could not see them, it was so dark, and I presume I was agitated somewhat - I asked him if I could not get into that boat. There was no one else around, not a person I could see except the people working at the boats, and he said, "Jump in." The railing was rather high - it was an emergency boat and was always swung over toward the water - I jumped onto the railing and rolled into it. The officer then said, "That is the funniest sight I have seen to-night," and he laughed quite heartily. That rather gave me some encouragement. I thought perhaps it was not so dangerous as I imagined. After getting down part of the way there was a painter on the boat, and we were beginning to tip, and somebody hollered to stop lowering. Somebody cut that line and we went on down. Just as I jumped into the boat some one else, a man named A. L. Solomon, appeared. I do not know where he appeared from, but he asked to get in and jumped in the boat with us. There were five passengers and, I understand, three stokers and two seamen; that is, five of the crew. |