Lifeboat 7 was a wooden starboard lifeboat and the first one to be lowered from the sinking Titanic. Although there was a capacity of 65 people, it left with only 28 people on board, thus with 37 empty seats. The reason why was that many women and children were reluctant to enter a small wooden lifeboat and preferred to stay on the massive 'unsinkable', but sinking, Titanic.
Quartermaster Rowe saw the boat in the water from the aft bridge. He was still on duty like nothing happened and was forgotten by his colleagues. But when he spotted the lifeboat, he rang the bridge to ask them if they knew that a lifeboat was launched at starboard side. Next thing he knew he was on the bridge with a box full of pyrotechnic distress fireworks, and the first one was shot at 12:47 A.M.
Occupants
There were 28 people in Lifeboat 7, including these 26:
- Dickinson H. Bishop
- Helen Bishop
- Henry Blank
- Paul Romaine Marie Léonce Chevré
- Harriette Rebecca Crosby
- Catherine Elizabeth Crosby
- Olive Earnshow
- Antoinette Flegenheim
- Dorothy Winifred Gibson
- Pauline Caroline Gibson
- William Bertram Greenfield
- Blanche Greenfield
- Margaret Bechstein Hays
- George Alfred Hogg (in charge)
- Archie Jewell
- Pierre Maréchal
- James Robert McGough
- Alfred Nourney
- Alfred Fernand Omont
- Lily Alexenia Potter
- Frederic Kimber Seward
- William Thompson Sloper
- John Pillsbury Snyder
- Nelle Snyder
- Gilbert Milligan jr Tucker
- William Clifford Weller
Gallery
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