Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Threlfall, Mr Thomas
14 14 5.00


Herts Advertiser & St. Albans Times, Saturday 4th May 1912:
    "Leading Fireman T, Threlfall, one of the Titanic survivors, who was in boat No. 14, in the course of a narrative told to a pressman on landing at Plymouth, said:
    'From the wreckage we picked up four men. Then Mr. Lowe called out, 'There's a boat sinking over there.' Although we were then towing a collapsible boat with about eighty people in her we reached the sinking boat just as the water was up to her gunwale and took twenty-six men and one woman, a Mrs. Abbott off her. I held the woman in my arms till we reached the Carpathia.'"

The Bridgewater Mercury (undated) has the full story in Threlfall's own words.
    "We went up again and got into Number 14 boat.
    It was the last but one on the port side to go, Mr. Lowe was in command, and as we put off he took a revolver from his pocket and said: 'We want no dirty work here.  I'll shoot two at a time.'  Then he called to several other boats close by, 'Throw out your painters,' and we linked them all up.  Mr. Lowe passed about fifty women and children from his boat, and said, 'We will go for the wreckage', to which other people were clinging.  From the wreckage we picked up four men.  Then Mr. Lowe called out,'There's a boat over there and she's sinking.'  Although we were then towing a collapsible boat with about eighty people in her we reached the sinking boat just as the water was up to her gunwale and took twenty-six men and one woman, a Mrs. Abbott, off her.  I held the woman in my arms till we reached the Carpathia."

Mr. Threlfall was in #14 both as it lowered from Titanic, and when it reached the Carpathia.