voices of Titanic: Lifeboat 3

voices of Titanic: Lifeboat 3 by ric Gustafson


Lifeboat 3 was the third lifeboat launched on the starboard side of the doomed liner. This boat was filled with first class passengers and some crew. Fifth Officer Lowe and First Officer Murdoch were in charge of filling the boat. There were fifty people on board this lifeboat.
First Class Passenger Elizabeth Shutes was a governess traveling with two other women. That Sunday night, she felt a strange quivering. Someone knocked on her door and told her that the liner had struck an iceberg. They got dressed, put on life vests and went up to the Boat Deck. There two men helped her into Lifeboat 3. As they rowed away from the Titanic, she sat next to Mrs Hays and Mrs Davidson.
Edith Graham was in Lifeboat 3 along with her daughter Margaret and their governess Elizabeth Shutes. She described the sound of the iceberg hitting the ship as a grinding tearing sound. Her daughter tried to go back to sleep. Mr Roebling and Mr Case helped the women get into the lifeboat.
Robert Daniel was a First Class Passenger on the lifeboat. In 1914, he married Mary Smith who also survived the sinking.


research help: ' Titanic Voices' by Hannah Holman


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