Name |
Lifeboat from Titanic |
Lifeboat to Carpathia |
Confidence Level |
Trembisky, Mr Berk |
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(5 votes) aft star (3 votes) 9 (1 vote) |
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(5 votes) aft star (3 votes) 9 (1 vote) |
1.00 2.00 2.00 |
American Inquiry Testimony of Berk Pickard (Trembisky), page 1055 Mr. PICKARD. I said to myself that if the ship had to sink, I should be one of the last. That was my first idea, which was the best. I went and I found the door. There are always a few steps from this third class, with a movable door, and it is marked there second-class passengers have no right to penetrate there. I found this door open so that I could go into the second class, where I did not find any people, only a few that climbed on the ladder and went into the first class, which I did. I found there only a few men and about two ladies. They had been putting them into lifeboats and as no women were there; we men sprang in the boat. We had only one woman and another young girl. There were two women. They just stood in front of me. We were lowered down, and when I was lowered down I saw the whole ship, as big as she was the right side a little bit sinking, and I was far from imagining that it was the beginning of the end. When I was going away from the ship, of course I was rather frightened; I was sorry at not being on the ship, and I said to the seaman, "I would rather be on the ship." He was laughing at me, and he said, "Do you not see we are sinking?" I was rather excited, and I said, "It is fortunate that the sea is nice, but perhaps in five minutes we will be turned over." So I was in the boat until 5 o'clock in the morning. The lifeboat I got into was an ordinary lifeboat. I do not know what number it was; I am sorry to say I did not look at it. There was some seaman in charge of it, who belonged to the ship. What kind of employment the seamen were in I do not know, but they belonged to the ship. This definitely sounds like a starboard boat with the men being allowed in, and seeing the 'right side' of the ship sinking after they got away. The vote for #9 was due to the "young girl", and the number of stewards. The rest of us voted either unknown lifeboat or an aft starboard boat. |