Lifeboat 4

**Lifeboat 4** was the eighth boat to be lowered from the port side. The boat had been lowered from the Boat Deck to A Deck and there was some trouble before passengers could start entering it. Some of the socially most well-known ladies were gathered around the boat; the Astors, the Carters, the Wideners and the Thayers. When John Jacob Astor asked whether he might join his wife in the boat, seeing as she was in a "*delicate condition*", he was stopped from doing so. When John Ryerson, age 13, was about to enter it, Second Officer Lightoller is said to have tried to stop him, as he was old enough to stay with the men. He was let in after his father, Arthur, insisted that he go with his family. Eventually, about 30 passengers, mainly ladies from first class, but also some from second class, including Mrs. Richards with two small sons and also her mother, were in it. Quartermaster Walter Perkis was put in charge and there were two other seamen with him. The boat was left hanging beside A-deck for most of the night, and not launched untill 1:50 A.M. When finally lowered away, at least one more crewman came down the falls and while they were trying to get away from the sinking ship, rather close to the end, eight crewmembers were plucked from the sea; Alfred White, Thomas Dillon, Frederick Scott, Samuel Hemming, Frank Prentice, Andrew Cunningham, William Lyons and Sidney Siebert; the two last were so overcome with cold that Sidney died in the boat shortly after having been hauled aboard; while Lyons died on the RMS *Carpathia* on April 16th. With now more than 40 people on board, they received another five or six from boat 14, to which they had been attached. When 14 left them, they went, together with boat 12, to rescue those on boat B and received another 6 or 8 people from that boat and reached the Carpathia late, with perhaps 55 living survivors on board.

## Notable occupants

* Walter John Perkis (in charge) *Quartermaster*
* W. McCarthy *Able Seaman*
* Thomas Ranger *Greaser*
* Frederik Scott *Trimmer*
* Jack Foley *Storekeeper*
* Miss Madeleine Talmage Astor *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Rosalie Bidois *maid of Madeleine Astor*
* Miss Grace S. Bowen *First Class Passenger*
* Lucile Carter *First Class Passenger*
* Master William T. Carter *First Class Passenger*
* Miss V. Chandowson *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. W.M. Clark *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Florence Cummings *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Caroline Louise Endres\* *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Elizabeth M. Eustis *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Emily Geiger *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Jean G. Hippach *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Ida S Hippach *First Class Passenger*
* Emily Maria Ryerson *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Emily Borie Ryerson *First Class Passenger*
* Miss Susan Parker Ryerson *First Class Passsenger*
* John Borie Ryerson *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs Martha Eustis Stephenson *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Marian Longstreth Thayer *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Eleanor Widener *First Class Passenger*
* Mrs. Selma Augusta E. Asplund\* *Third Class Passenger*
* MIss L.G. Asplund\* *Third Class Passenger*
* E.R.F. Asplund\* *Third Class Passenger*
* Miss Jamila NIcola-Yarred\* *Third Class Passenger*

###### Saved out of the water

* Andrew Orr Cunningham *1st Class Bedroom Steward*
* Thomas Patrick Dillon *Trimmer*
* Samuel Ernest Hemming *Lamp Trimmer*
* Frank Winnold Prentice *Assistant Storekeeper*
* Frederick William Scott *Greaser*
* Alfred White *Greaser*

* William Henry Lyons *Able Seaman* (passed away)
* Sidney Conrad Siebert *1st Class Bedroom Steward* (passed away)

\* = not certain