Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Sjöblom, Miss Anna Sofia
13
13
1.94

 


Tacoma (Washington) Ledger
, April 14, 1912:
    "Our boat was swung over the side, and we were almost down to the water when another came down and was only several feet above us when men cut the ropes which held our boat and we got away before being crushed.
 
    The boat that I got in to was the next to the last launched. There must have been fifty people in it.  It was so crowded that we sat on each other's laps, three deep.  While the boat was being lowered, a man jumped into it from the deck above.  He came down feet first on my head, and nearly broke my neck.  He sprawled over the people in the lifeboat and nearly fell overboard.  I was in intense pain for hours after he had jumped on me."

An alternate version of the previous was given in her claim for damages:
    "As the life boat was lowered one of the crew of said steamship Titanic jumped from the upper deck into the life boat landing on affiant’s head and striking her with his boots, and as a result she lost consciousness, and has ever since suffered and still suffers great pain in her head and in her spine."

Tacoma (Washington) Ledger, April 14, 1929:
    " 'Our boat was swung out over the side', Mrs. Kincaid (Sjöblom) continued, 'and we were almost to the water when another came down and was only several feet above us when men cut the ropes which held out boat and we got away before being
crushed.' "

The problem we have with all these accounts, is that for someone who was rendered unconscious, and found herself injured and in pain when she recovered, she remembered an awful lot. It appears her memories may be a jigsaw of other survivors’ recollections.

Discussions included how in her 1929 account she described another boat coming down on top of hers, which is what we know happened to boat 13. In various accounts she mentions a man whose hair turned white, which is believed to be Alexander Littlejohn who was likely in boat 13. Since a man landed on her, injuring her, there is the possibility she just fused together bits and pieces of other peoples stories such as a couple who supposedly died in her boat. Her 1913 claim says she was knocked unconscious.  

We didn't vote highly on her being in lifeboat 13, but it is still the only one that seems to fit.