Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Sap, Mr Julius ? (8 votes)
11 (2 votes)
? (8 votes)
11 (2 votes)
1.00
2.50

 


A 1912 newspaper account with Mr. Sap says:
     "
Herded with others by officers in the stern of the sinking Titanic until the water reached his knees and then swimming off and keeping going for an hour until he heard singing on the water, is part of the experience of Jules Sap, a Belgian survivor, who reached Toronto last night. But probably the most thrilling part of his experience was when he discovers the singing came from a crowded lifeboat to which he swam and tried to climb into, only to have a sailor stick a revolver in his face.

    'I just thought I was going to to die and so I tried to get into that boat anyway,' was his view as he related his story to The World last night. Eventually one of the woman pushed the sailor aside and pulled the all but dead boy into the boat. The other women hid him in the bottom of the boat from the enraged sailors, who wanted to throw him out again."

The April 30, 1912 edition of the Daily Mirror, Mrs. Katherine Gold, confirmed in #11, says:
    "Two Germans had gotten in before anyone else, and hidden under seats."

Speculation was that these "Two Germans" may actually have been Sap and his friend Jean Baptiste Scheerlinck, who were actually Belgian.

The first account could be referring to #4, but the details are not definite enough to convince us.  Several members of the team felt the second account could be correct and they were in #11, but did not vote very highly for it.  Most of us chose to vote unknown lifeboat.