Lifeboat 13 was the 7th lifeboat to be lowered from the starboard side of the Titanic.
Lowering 
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It was partly filled from the Boat Deck and partly from A Deck after it had been lowered to that level when it was launched under the supervision of Murdoch and Moody at 1:15 A.M.. Again, it was heavily occupied, with over 65 people aboard. Leading Fireman Frederick Barrett was put in charge[1] by boatswain Alfred Nichols. The occupants were mainly Second and Third Class women and children, with some men also aboard including Lawrence Beesley, who subsequently wrote a popular book about the disaster [2] . Dr. Washington Dodge was also aboard, having earlier seen his wife and child aboard Boat 5. He owed his presence aboard the boat to the apparent guilty feelings of Steward F. Dent Ray, who had urged the Dodges to sail on Titanic in the first place. Just before Boat 5 was lowered, Ray bundled Dodge aboard.[3] Others did not want to board at all. A woman on deck became hysterical, crying: "Don't put me in that boat! I don't want to go in that boat! I've never been in an open boat in my life!" Ray told her: "You have got to go and you may as well keep quiet."[4]
Near-disaster Edit
While it was being lowered the lifeboat was nearly caught by "an enormous stream of water, three or four feet in diameter"[5] coming from the condenser exhaust which was being produced by the pumps, far below, attempting to purge the water that was flooding into Titanic. The occupants had to push the boat clear using their oars and spars and reached the water safely. The wash from the exhaust caused the lifeboat to drift directly under Boat 15, which was being lowered almost simultaneously. Its lowering was halted just in time, with only a few feet to spare. The falls aboard Boat 13 jammed and had to be cut free to allow the boat to get away safely from the side of Titanic.[6]
Lifeboat 13 attempts to row away in Titanic (1997)
From right to left, boats 9, 11, and 13 are swung out to be loaded in A Night To Remember.
Rescue Edit
A few hours later the occupants saw the Carpathia coming to their rescue and began rowing towards it to an accompaniment of the song "Pull for the Shore, Sailor."[7] They were picked up at about 6:30 am.[1]
Passengers & crew aboard Edit
- Leah Aks
- Johan Charles Asplund
- Percy Ball
- Frederick Barrett (in charge)
- George William Beauchamp
- Ruth Elizabeth Becker
- Lawrence Beesley
- Bridget Bradley
- Daniel Buckley
- Charles Burgess
- Arthur Victor Edwards Burrage
- Alden Gates Caldwell
- Albert Francis Caldwell
- Sylvia Mae Caldwell
- E. Joseph Colgan
- Catherine Connolly
- James Crimmins
- Mary Davies Wilburn
- Anna De Messemaeker
- Washington Dodge
- Elizabeth Dowdell
- Virginia Ethel Emmanuel
- Wilfred Cyril Foley
- Choong Foo
- Albert Ernest Fryer
- Mary Agatha Glynn
- Mary Dunbar Hewlett
- Robert John Hopkins
- Bernt Johannes Johannesen
- Einar Gervasius Karlsson
- George Knight
- Aurora Adelia Landergren
- Reginald Robinson Lee
- Alexander James Littlejohn
- Fridtjof Arne Madsen
- William James Major
- Paul Achille Maurice Germain Maugé
- Bridget Delia McDermott
- Mary McGovern
- Anna Louise McGowan
- Bentley Harold Neal
- Helmina Josefina Nilsson
- Anna Sofia Nysten
- Hanora O'Leary
- Artur Karl Olsen
- Percy Thomas Oxenham
- Frank Port
- Frederick Dent Ray
- Lucy Ridsdale
- Hannah Riordan
- Horace Leopold Ross
- Beatrice Irene Sandström
- Marguerite Rut Sandström
- Agnes Charlotta Sandström
- Ellen Shine
- Hilda Mary Slayter
- Julia Smyth
- Johan Cervin Svensson
- Gunnar Isidor Tenglin
- David Vartanian
- Philip Francis Vigott
- Walter John Williams
- Alfred Edgar Windebank
- William Wright
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Notes Edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wormstedt & Fitch 2011, p. 140.
- ↑ Balls, John (2012). Lucky for Some - Titanic's Lifeboat 13 and its Passengers Stenlake Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-84033-590-3. http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=699
- ↑ Butler 1998, p. 112.
- ↑ Butler 1998, p. 118.
- ↑ Dodge, Washington (15 April 2012). "Survivors share lifeboat; descendants share local ties". The Roanoke Times. http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/307439. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ↑ Butler 1998, p. 119.
- ↑ Butler 1998, p. 153.
