Lifeboat 11

Lifeboat 11
Lifeboat 11 (background) at the Carpathia with Lifeboat 14
Type	Standard
Location on deck	Starboard aft
Time when launched from Titanic	1:35 A.M.
Launched by officers	Murdoch
Capacity	65
Estimated occupancy at launch	70
Estimated occupancy at rescue	70
Previous lifeboat launched	9
Next lifeboat launched	2

Lifeboat 11 was the 6th lifeboat to be lowered from the starboard side of the Titanic, lowered under First Officer Murdoch's supervision at 1:35 A.M. with Quartermaster Sidney Humphreys in charge. By then, the lifeboats were being filled much closer to their capacity, and it is estimated to have had as many as 70 people aboard.

One occupant, Steward James Witter, had not intended to board but was knocked into it by a hysterical woman whom he was helping aboard while it was being lowered. First Class passenger Edith Louise Rosenbaum brought along her lucky toy pig, which played 'the Maxixe'. She had wrapped it in a blanket to protect it but was too frightened to enter the lifeboat; thinking it was a baby, a steward took it and tossed it to one of the women already aboard. Rosenbaum could not bear the thought of losing the pig and boarded the lifeboat to retrieve it. Both Rosenbaum and the pig survived; it is now part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.

On reaching the water, the lifeboat was nearly swamped by a jet of water being pumped out of Titanic in a futile bid to stem the ship's progressive flooding. Tempers flared among the crowded passengers, some of whom had to stand, as the lifeboat was rowed away from the ship. Rosenbaum used her toy pig to entertain the children aboard. The lifeboat finally made it to the Carpathia at about 7:00 A.M.

From right to left, boats 9, 11, and 13 are swung out to be loaded in A Night To Remember.

The water from the pump rushed into Lifeboat 11 in Titanic (1997).

Lifeboat 11 start to row away from the ship as Lifeboat 13 came down. (Titanic 1997)

Occupants

• Sidney Humphreys --------------Quartermaster (in charge)
• Walter Thomas Brice -------------Able Seaman
• Edward Wheelton ---------------1st Class Saloon Steward
• Williams Stephan Faulkner ------1st Class Bedroom Steward
• A. Theissinger ------------------1st Class Bedroom Steward
• Alfred McMicken ----------------1st Class Saloon Steward
• James Witter ------------------ 2nd Class Smoke Room Steward
• Jacob William Gibbons ----------2nd Class Saloon Steward
• Charles Donald Mackay* (3?) ----1st Class Bathroom Steward
• Joseph Thomas Wheat---------- 1st Class Ass.Second Steward
• James Leo Hyland --------------Third Class Steward
• Maude Louise Slocombe --------Masseuse Turkish Bath
• Mrs. Kate Gold ------------------1st Class Stewardess
• Mrs. Annie Martin ---------------1st Class Stewardess
• Annie Robinson -----------------1st Class Stewardess
• Elizabeth Lavington ------------ Stewardess
• Hudson Trevor Allison -----------First Class Passenger
• Alice Catherine Cleaver ---------First Class Passenger
• Mr. Philip E. Mock --------------First Class Passenger
• Edith Louise Rosenbaum ------- First Class Passenger
• Emma Schabert ----------------First Class Passenger
• Florence Angle ------------------Second Class Passenger
• Richard Fulton Becker ----------Second Class Passenger
• Marion Louise Becker-----------Second Class Passenger
• Mrs. Nellie E. Becker -------------Second Class Passenger
• Amelia Mary Brown -------------Second Class Passenger
• Miss Mildred Brown* ------------Second Class Passenger
• Argene Genovesi Del Carlo ------ Second Class Passenger
• Master Marshall Drew -----------Second Class Passenger
• Mrs. Lulu T. (Opie) Drew ---------Second Class Passenger
• Annie Harper* -------------------Second Class Passenger
• Jessie Leitch*------------------ Second Class Passenger
• Elizabeth Nye ------------------Second Class Passenger
• Miss Phyllis Quick* -------------Second Class Passenger
• MIss Vera W. Quick* (13?) --------Second Class Pasenger
• Mrs. Jane Quick* ---------------Second Class Passenger
• Maude Sincock* ----------------Second Class Passenger
• Frank Phillip Aks ----------------Third Class Passenger
• Theodore De Mulder ------------Third Class Passenger
• Julius "Jules" Sap --------------Third Class Passenger

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