Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Sunderland, Mr Victor Francis Collapsible B

4 or 12
5.00
3.00


From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 27, 1912:
    "'Here she goes,' shouted Lightoller, and jumped over the port side.  I followed.
    A lifeboat, bottomside up, and evidently one of those which had overturned under it's load, floated up to the rail, and we grabbed for it.  We climbed upon it, and it drifted over the the submerged part of the Titanic.  We passed under the forward funnel and just as it was clear it fell.  At that minute the Titanic broke in two just aft of amidships and the stern stood straight in the air. ....  Harold Bride, second wireless operator on the Titanic, was one of those who found a place on the boat."

Sunderland’s account makes it clear he was on Collapsible B. As far as the boat he had to transfer to, either #4 or #12, the only statement in that regard is “When the Carpathia was reached five babies were taken from Sunderland’s boat and lifted to the liner’s deck in ashbags.” 

Other accounts from Sunderland, such as his
June 5, 1912 letter, the Syracuse Herald for April 21, 1912 and a later in life account in the Winnipeg Free Press of August 25, 1973, all mention the overturned lifeboat.
 
Though the team are sure he was on Collapsible B, we could not determine which boat he transferred to, #4 or #12.