Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Snow, Mr Eustace Philip
Collapsible B
4 or 12
5.00


Eustace Snow gave a deposition from the British Inquiry, although he was never called to testify.  This deposition was lost, but later resurfaced at auction in September 2002:
    “I was in my bunk and I was awakened by a shock. I went on deck and saw water rushing into the hold. I saw ice all about the well deck. At about midnight some of us went forward the boat deck but were ordered to our own quarters in the well deck. We were next ordered to put on lifebelts by our lead-ing hand (William Bellows Small). About 12:30 I went to the boat deck and helped lower boats from port side and afterward starboard side. The Captain from Chart Room called out for Firemen to launch two boats from top of chart house, and after the port boat filled with passengers and crew was lowered. But it filled with water because the bung could not be found.
    I helped launch the starboard collapsible boat, but she stove her bow in when she fell on the boat deck and she turned over by the rush of the water. There were no women or children about, and I heard the Captain shout “Wait till the boat [take?] the water, then every man for himself.” I did not see the Captain again. This was about just before 2 am. I jumped into the water and clung to the upturned boat with 9 or 10 others. One of the funnels fell near the boat and some of the men let go and sank. I could see ice which resembled a field of ice, and also [illegible] some high bergs. I saw the stern of the ship rise straight up in the air and remained there for 10 or 15 minutes. I heard explosions of the boilers. There was no suction when the vessel sank about 2:30. We were about 100 yards away. I could hear the band playing until the last [next few words are scratched out.] We picked up about 30 of the crew [chiefs?] and firemen and we were rescued by three of the lifeboats at daybreak."

Given that this information was given in a deposition, we concluded with certainty that Snow was rescued on top of Collapsible B.  It is uncertain whether he was one of the survivors subsequently taken aboard boat #4 or #12.