Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Whabee, Mrs Shawneene 12 (8 votes)
14 (2 votes)
12 or C (1 vote)
12 (8 votes)
14 (2 votes)
12 or C (1 vote)
3.88
3.25
4.00

 

We have a 1937 account from Mrs. Whabee (also called Shawneene Abi-Saab or Shabini Georges) where she says:
    “I saw Gerios Yousseff, one of my cousins. He pushed me toward one of the lifeboats. Sailors armed with revolvers drove the men away from the boats shouting, ‘Women and children first!’ They shot into the air to frighten the men. Many passengers were overcome with fright. Banoura [Ayoub] and I were placed into the next to the last lifeboat to be lowered from the ship. A scared young man leaped over the side of the liner and landed in the bottom of the lifeboat. Women shielded him with their night clothing so the sailors wouldn’t see him. They would have shot him.”

The article further says:
    "At dawn, we saw the overturned empty boats.  A short while later we were picked up by a German ship."

Shawneene’s comment about being in “the next to last lifeboat” could of course apply to Collapsible C, as would her comments about shots being fired [by First Officer Murdoch] in order to control unruly passengers. However, her comment could apply equally well to boat  #12, which could be the “next to last” lifeboat positioned on the ship’s aft port side and where Fifth Officer Lowe fired shots at #14 to control passengers in that location. The reference to "overturned boats" could apply to #12 or #4, which recovered the survivors on Collapsible B.  Shawneene’s statement about women shielding the frightened young man with their clothing is strikingly similar to Daniel Buckley’s statement that a woman threw her shawl over him in order to keep him from being seen and thrown out of her lifeboat.

After our discussion, most of us felt Mrs. Whabee was most likely in #12, though we had a few votes for #14, and even one for #12 or Collapsible C.