Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Stewart, Mr John
15 15 5.00

 


John Stewart is often cited as one of the three-to-four individuals who were pulled out of the water by crewmen in boat #14, after Fifth Officer Lowe returned to the site of the sinking.  This is entirely because of the American Inquiry testimony (page 750) of Able Bodied Seaman Frank Evans.  Evans stated that one of the men pulled into their boat was “the steward, young Stewart.”  Because of this, Colonel Archibald Gracie lists Stewart as an occupant of boat #14, in The Truth About the Titanic,

However, at the British Inquiry, Bathroom Steward Samuel Rule, who was rescued in boat #15, testified as follows:
    6596. Do you know who took charge of the boat? - A man called Jack Stewart.
    6597. What was he? - A steward; he was a steward called Stewart.
    6598. A man who was a steward, whose name was Jack Stewart? - Yes.
    6599. (The Commissioner.) He is alive? - Yes.

In the 1998 Madacy Entertainment documentary, Titanic Remembered, Molly Adams, Stewart’s daughter, stated that her father ‘came off on the last lifeboat’. Stewart had told her that he was rescued in a lifeboat, not that he was pulled from the water. Boat #15 was the last of the aft starboard boats lowered away, which provides circumstantial evidence supporting Rule’s claim that Stewart was in that boat.

Due to the supporting evidence, we concluded, with certainty, that Stewart was rescued aboard #15.