Name
Lifeboat from Titanic
Lifeboat to Carpathia
Confidence Level
Williams, Mr Richard Norris Jr
Collapsible A 14 5.00


In May of 1912, Williams wrote to Colonel Gracie (reprinted in On Board RMS Titanic, page 425):
    “I was not under water very long, and as soon as I came to the top I threw off the big fur coat. I also threw off my shoes. About twenty yards away I saw something floating.
    I swam to it and found it to be a collapsible boat. I hung on to it and after a while got aboard and stood up in the middle of it. The water was up to my waist. About thirty of us clung to it. When Officer Lowe’s boat picked us up eleven of us were still alive; all the rest were dead from cold. My fur coat was found attached to this Engelhardt boat “A” by the Oceanic, and also a cane marked “C. Williams.” This gave rise to the story that my father’s body was in this boat, but this as you see, is not so. How the cane got there I do not know.”

The notion that a cane was found in Collapsible A was due to a newspaper error.

This letter makes it obvious that Williams was on Collapsible A, and he was picked up by Officer Lowe in #14.