Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Wheelton, Mr Edneser Edward
11 11 5.00


American Inquiry
Testimony of Ed Wheelton, page 544
    Mr. WHEELTON.We went down to A deck. Number 11 boat was hanging in the davits. We got into the boat. Mr. Murdoch shouted "Women and children first." He was on the top deck then, standing by the taffrail. We loaded the boat with women and children, and took in a few of the crew. I think there were about - well, there were eight or nine men in the boat, all together. That was including our crew. I think there were one or two passengers, but I really could not say.
    I shouted to Mr. Murdoch, "The boat is full, sir." He said, "All right." He said, "Have you got your sailors in?" I said, "no, sir." He told two sailors to jump into the boat. We lowered away. Everything went very nice, very smoothly, until we touched the water. We pushed away from the ship's side and had just a slight difficulty in hoisting the afterblock. We were not there a minute. The sailor got at the block and loosened the tackle. We pulled away from the ship. We pulled away until we were about 300 yards away from the ship. I looked around into the boat. I saw the boat was pretty well crowded, because I had some little difficulty in rowing, because the passengers were so close together, and I kept hitting my hands against the passengers. We bent to our oars until the ship eventually went down.