Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Sundman, Mr Johan Julian |
15? |
15? | 2.50 |
From The Salt Lake Tribune, April 28, 1912, account by Sundman: "By the time I succeeding in reaching the upper deck several boats had already been launched. I made my way to the rail where a boat was being put off. It was full of people but I saw no women left on deck. Someone yelled to me, 'jump.' The boat was already being lowered. I jumped and fell on my head in the middle of the boat, knocking over two or three of the occupants. I do not know how many were in the boat, all the way from forty to sixty, I should say. There were eight women, all of whom were in their night clothes. One of them, a Swedish woman, lost her two children and husband in the wreck. The husband carried all the money they possessed and she was left destitute. About half of the occupants of the boat seemed to be of the ship's crew, waiters or stokers. There were no sailors among them, and we passengers had to take the oars. I crawled over several people and took an oar on the port side. We rowed for five or six hours before we were picked up by the Carpathia. We were the third boat picked up, I believe. The women and some of the men in the boat who were lightly dressed suffered severely from the cold. After leaving the Titanic I did not observe much that followed, as I was busy with the oar. Before I fell into the boat I noticed there was much confusion on the deck, which was filled with struggling men. I heard no shots or any explosion as the vessel sank, as has been reported. After our boat put off, there is not much to relate. Silently we floated around in the realization that our only hope lay in being picked up by a passing ship. It was a great relief when we at last sighted the Carpathia. It was biting cold, and all around us we could see icebergs." Uusi Suometar, June 2nd 1912: Was saved in the same boat as Abrahamsson. When he got on the deck, the last boat was being lowered, and as he saw there was still a place in it for himself, he got in just as the men started to lower it. His Salt Lake Tribune account above implies he was in the same boat as Mrs Asplund (the Swedish lady who lost children), and also that the boat was perhaps one at the end of the starboard deck - half the occupants being waiters or stokers, and there being no sailors. But our votes on Asplund were all over the map, and not conclusive. We only have a low confidence for #15. |