Name	Lifeboat from Titanic	Lifeboat to Carpathia	Confidence Level
Troutt, Miss Edwina Celia	Collapsible D	Collapsible D	4.64

Edwina Troutt’s lifeboat has been argued over for years. Oddly, she definitively named a handful of people being in it, including Master-At-Arms Bailey, who was known to be in boat 16, and the Navratil children, who were known to be in Collapsible D. There was simply no way that both could be true.

In 2021 the Titanic Historical Society’s magazine, The Commutator #235, printed an article by Don Lynch entitled “Winnie’s Boat.” The article took all of Miss Troutt’s known 1912 writings, letters and interviews and analyzed the details she provided. Critical to this analysis was one letter in which she stated that the Titanic struck the iceberg at 10:55 p.m. This meant that she had put her watch back forty-three minutes before going to bed to allow for the adjustment in ship’s time that would occur that night had the disaster not occurred. This gave a more accurate view of the times she gave for when she left the ship. These times became roughly 2:00 a.m., which coincides with her belief that the ship sank within half an hour after she left it.

Edwina Troutt had also written that her boat was the last to be launched, but not the last to leave the ship. When she reached her lifeboat the Titanic had sunk to the second deck. It had a lamp, but no oil. These pieces of description, along with the launch time, matched collapsible D, but not #16, as did the number of occupants she described.

Lifeboat 16 was the first boat launched from the after end of the ship. It is believed that this occurred at around 1:20 a.m. It would have been impossible for Miss Troutt to have seen a boat launched and another being uncovered, gone below, conversed with several table companions, knocked on doors of those she knew to get them up, helped people on with their lifejackets, gone back to her cabin and helped one of her roommates dress, then gone up on deck and watched boat after boat leave before finally entering 16, which would have meant rushing from the bow to the stern. For this reason it was concluded she could not have been in boat 16 under any circumstances.

Evidence for boat D, which included interviews in later years, included having to step up from the deck to get into the boat, which described the bulwark at the forward end of the boat deck. The ship was listing such that the boat hung away from the ship, leaving a gap to be crossed. In one interview very near the end of her life she suddenly described a man being pulled into the boat from the water, which, if true, would have been Frederick Hoyt.

Although Miss Troutt did claim that her boat tied to another, at no time did she speak of hers being a collapsible, that it was towed by boat 14, nor did she ever mention the rescue of the survivors from swamped collapsible A. The group was in agreement that she was not in boat 16, but the confidence for collapsible D wasn’t quite 100%. Although everyone voted for her being in D, she was given an average rating of 4.64.