Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Toomey, Miss Ellen Mary |
9 | 9 |
5.00 |
The Cedar Rapids Republican of May 19, 1912: "Miss Toomey got off in the third boat and was about a mile away from the Titanic when it went down." Paraphrasing from the Indianapolis Star, April 23, 1912. She said it was a starboard boat and that men were brandishing guns, and in her more coherent interview says they were not actually fired. She believed it was the 2nd or 3rd launched, but doesn't say whether she based that on seeing them launched, or seeing boats already in the water. She mentions a 'hysterical French woman', also brought up by multiple witnesses in #9, who may have been Madame Aubart. Miss Toomey estimates only about thirty people in her boat, which is somewhat lower than we estimate in that boat, however, we know #9 did not have the large numbers that the later starboard boats did (#11, #13, #15). Given her descriptions that match other events we know happened in #9, we are convinced that was her lifeboat. |