Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Taussig, Mrs Tillie
8 8 5.00
Taussig, Miss Ruth
8 8 5.00


Moberly Weekly Monitor April 23, 1912:
    "Most of the men picked up to man the lifeboats were stewards, Mrs. Taussig says, and in the lifeboat No. 8, which took here off the sinking ship, there was only one sailor.
    There were only 25 persons in the boat, which could have held fully a score more comfortably ....
    Miss
Taussig says that a seaman, after the boat had been In the water some time, snatched a valuable fur piece from around her neck, saying: 'You don't need this and I do;' whereupon he placed it around his neck and kept it. She was unable to learn his name, but says it was the only seaman in the lifeboat No. 8, the other members of the crew being stewards."

In addition to both Taussig women mentioning the boat number, their estimate of 25 persons in the boat is very close to our own estimate, and we know there were only two seamen, per the testimony of seaman Thomas Jones, in charge of #8.