Emergency lifeboats

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Emergency Lifeboat 1


Emergency Lifeboat 1 (capacity 40 persons) was launched from the starboard side at 1.10am under the command of Lookout George Symons. It was the fifth boat to leave the Titanic and contained 12 people.

First Class Passengers
Duff Gordon, Sir Cosmo Edmund
Duff Gordon, Lady (Lucille Wallace Sutherland)
Salomon, Mr Abraham L.
Stengel, Mr Charles Emil Henry

First Class Servants
Francatelli, Miss Laura Mabel, maid to Lady Duff Gordon

Deck Crew
Able Bodied Seaman: Horswell, Mr Albert Edward James
Lookout: Symons, Mr George Thomas Macdonald [in charge]

Engineering Crew
Fireman: Collins, Mr Samuel
Leading Fireman: Hendrickson, Mr Charles George
Fireman: Pusey, Mr Robert William
Trimmer: Sheath, Mr Frederick
Fireman: Taylor, Mr James

Boat 1 was recovered and taken to New York by the Carpathia.


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