Lifeboat 3

Lifeboat 3
Starboard lifeboats of the Titanic
Type	Standard
Location on deck	Starboard forward
Time when launched from Titanic	12:43 A.M.
Launched by officers	Murdoch, Lowe
Capacity	65
Estimated occupancy at launch	40
Estimated occupancy at rescue	40
Previous lifeboat launched	6
Next lifeboat launched	1

Lifeboat 3 was the third boat to be lowered from the starboard side and the fourth one lowered overall, after 7,5 and 6. It was one of the 14 standard wooden lifeboats, and it departed with about 38 people, even though other sources say it was 32.

While all the available women and children had been put in to the boat several men, including a handful of the ships firemen, were also allowed to jump in. First Officer Murdoch and Fifth Officer Lowe supervised the lowering of the boat. It was lowered at around 12:43 A.M., At the same time, lifeboat 6 was being launched on the other side by Captain Smith and Second Officer Lightoller.

Able seaman George Moore was in command of lifeboat 3. In the water, it is said that two of the boats oars were lost overboard, possibly due to the effect of the cold on the crew’s hands. At least two survivors who were aboard the boat stated that there was no light in the boat. With the lack of light in the boat, the passengers burned what they could find to try to make themselves visible to the RMS Carpathia.

All the passengers and crew aboard lifeboat 3 were rescued by Carpathia and taken to New York.

Occupants

• George Alfred Moore ---------------- Able Seaman (in charge)
• John Haggan* ---------------------- Fireman
• Robert Frederick William Couper* -----Fireman
• Thomas Jubilee Mayzes* ------------- Trimmer
• J. Moore* ---------------------------- Fireman
• Charles Alfred Othen* ---------------- Fireman
• Robert Triggs* ----------------------- Fireman
• George Combes* --------------------- Fireman
• Walter William Binstead* --------------- Trimmer
• Wilfred Deable Seward ---------------- Chief Pantry Steward
• Harry Anderson ---------------------- First Class Passenger
• Elizabeth Margaret Burns ------------- Nursemaid of the Speddens
• Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza ------ First Class Passenger
• Charlotte Wardle Cardeza ------------- First Class Passenger
• Albert Adrian Dick --------------------First Class Passenger
• Vera Dick ---------------------------- First Class Passenger
• Orian Davidson ---------------------- First Class Passenger
• Edith Graham ------------------------ First Class Passenger
• Margaret Edith Graham -------------- First Class Passenger
• G. Lesueur -------------------------- Servant of the Cardeza Family
• Henry Sleeper Harper---------------- First Class Passenger
• Mayra Harper + her dog Sun Yat Sen -- First Class Passenger
• Hammad Hassab -------------------- Servant of Henry Harper
• Walter James Hawksforth* ----------- First Class Passenger
• Clara Jennings Hays ---------------- First Class Passenger
• Mary Anne Perreault ----------------- Maid of the Hays Family
• Adolphe Saalfeld* ------------------- First Class Passenger
• Elizabeth Weed Schutes ------------- First Class Passenger
• Oberst Alfons Simonius-Blumer ------ First Class Passenger
• Max Stäehlin-Maeglin --------------- First Class Passenger
• Frederic Oakley Spedden ------------- First Class Passenger
• Margaretta Corning Spedden --------- First Class Passenger
• Robert Douglas Spedden ------------- First Class Passenger
• Annie Moore Ward ------------------- Maid of Charlotte Cardeza
• Helen Alice Wilson ------------------- Maid of the Spedden family

_{*= not certain}

Popular culture

Lifeboat 3 in Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Lifeboat 3 received no special attention in any Titanic film, though it does appear a few times in other media.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Carlson wakes up at 1:10 AM. If he goes to the deck immediately, he'll see a seaman guarding lifeboat 3. Beatrix Conkling is also there, waiting to board the lifeboat with baby Edward.

Seaman: I'm swingin' out boat 3 directly! Line starts in the back, mate!

Carlson: Can you help me?

Seaman: Help?! Now?! I'm busy! We have plenty of women and children for boat 3, here.

The lifeboat is gone after the first cutscene in the sinking part of the game, which starts when the clock hits 1:20 AM. Mrs. Concling will have moved on to lifeboat 9.

2012 Titanic Miniseries

Lifeboat 3 and Lifeboat 5 being loaded in 2012 Miniseries Titanic

In the 2012 Titanic Miniseries, one of the Allison family servants, Sarah Daniels was escaped on Lifeboat 3. Lorraine Allison refused to be separated from her mother, so she took her off from Lifeboat 3 to search Alice and Trevor. Grace Rushton also refused to take her place in Lifeboat 3 because her dog is still remain on the kennels, but later escaped on Emergency lifeboat 2.

Sources

1. _{'Titanic' ©1996 (second print, 1998) Edward P. De Groot}
2. https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic/lifeboats/lifeboat-3/

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