Lifeboat 14

**Lifeboat 14** was the fourth boat to be lowered from the port side, after 6, 8, & 16. Fifth Officer Lowe took charge of the boat. About 30-32 passengers were in it and there were ten or eleven crewmen and two stewardesses; probably no more than 45 in total when lowered. Chief Officer Wilde was, according to George Crowe & Joseph Scarrott, also in the vicinity.

Lowe thought that the crowd began to be unruly and men threatened to jump into it, so as a matter of precaution, he fired a few times in the air with his gun when the boat was lowered away. Nobody was hit. People heard the shootings, however, and it may turn out that those who heard it thought that people were shot and killed. One young man had tried to enter the boat and been thrown out and either him or another man was threatened by officer Lowe, at gunpoint.

When the boat was near the water, there was some sort of trouble and they let the boat drop three or four feet, which apparently led to the boat springing a leak and water started pouring into it, and some ladies had to take care of that problem.

Later in the night, they encountered boats 4, 10, 12, and Collapsible D and Lowe decided to distribute his passengers among the others boats, wanting to go back to the wreckage to see if he could save people in the water. It is believed that eight or ten crew remained, as well as second class passenger Charles Williams, whom Lowe took for rowing before the boat was lowered away (Williams would later claim that he had been swimming around in the water, yet officer Lowe's testimony proves that Williams entered the boat from the deck). Rowing into the area, No. 14 encountered few left alive: First class passenger William Hoyt was hauled in but later died, Fang Lang, a Chinese third class passenger, was rescued as well as steward Harold Phillimore. There may have been a fourth person rescued, even though some in the crew thought there were three saved and one died and another crew member said they found four, but two died. After having rescued these people, they spotted the swamped collapsible lifeboat A and took the about 13 people from it into boat 14. There were perhaps a dozen people on boat A. No. 14 reached the *Carpathia*, after 7 o'clock in the morning, with perhaps 25 or so people on board.

## Notable occupants

* Harold Godfrey Lowe (in charge) *Fifth Officer*
* Joseph George Scarrott *Able Seaman*
* George Frederick Crowe *1st Class Saloon Steward*
* John Stewart\* *Verandah Cafe Steward*
* Harold Phillimore\* *Bath Steward*
* Mrs. Mary E.I. Compton *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Sarah R. Compton *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Lillian Minahan *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Daisy E. Minahan *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Edith Eileen Brown *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Ada Maria Clarke *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Charlotte Caroline Collyer *Second Class Passenger*
* Miss Marjory Collyer *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Selina R. Cook *Second Class Passenger*
* Miss Eva Miriam Hart *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Esther Hart *Second Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Elizabeth A. Mellenger *Second Class Passenger*
* Miss Madeleine V. Mellenger *Second Class Passenger*
* Mr. Edward Ryan\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Master Assad Thomas *Third Class Passenger*

### Collapsible A rescuees

* Edward Brown *1st Class Saloon Steward*
* William McIntyre\* *Trimmer*
* John William Thompson *Fireman*
* Augustus Henry Weikman *First Class Barber*
* George Alexander Lucien Rheims *First Class Passenger*
* William John Mellors\* (B?) *Second Class Passenger*
* Olaus Jorgensen Abelseth *Third Class Passenger*
* Karl Olof Jansson\* *Third Class Passenger*
* August Edvard Wennerström\* *Third Class Passenger*

### Retrieved from the water

* Harold Charles William Phillimore *2nd Class Saloon Steward*
* William Fisher Hoyt (died) *First Class Passenger*
* Emilio Ilario Giuseppe Portaluppi\* *Second* *Class Passenger*
* Wing Sun Fong (Fang Lang) *Third Class Passenger*

\* = not certain