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.There was no inrush of water, or anything.Mr.Pitman then said to pull back to the scene of the wreckage.The ladies started calling out.Two ladies sitting in front where I was pulling said: ‘Appeal to the officer not to go back.Why should we lose all of our lives in a useless attempt to save others from the ship?’ We did not go back.When we left the ship No.5 had forty-two, including the children and six crew and the officer.Two were transferred with a lady and a child into boat No.7.Senator Smith: Of your own knowledge do you know whether any general call was made for passengers to rouse themselves from their berths; and when it was, or whether there was any other signal given?Mr.Etches: The second steward (Dodd), sir, was calling all around the ship.He was directing some men to storerooms for provisions for the lifeboats, and others he was telling to arouse all the passengers and to tell them to be sure to take their life preservers with them.There was no lamp in No.5.On Monday morning we saw a very large floe of flat ice and three or four bergs between in different places, and on the other bow there were two large bergs in the distance.The field ice was about three-quarters of a mile at least from us between four and five o’clock in the morning.It was well over on the port side of the Titanic in the position she was going.A.Olliver, Q.M.(Am.Inq., p.526):There were so many people in the boat when I got into it that I could not get near the plug to put the plug in.I implored the passengers to move so I could do it.When the boat was put in the water I let the tripper go and water came into the boat.I then forced my way to the plug and put it in; otherwise it would have been swamped.There was no rush when I got into the boat.I heard Mr.Pitman give an order to go back to the ship, but the women passengers implored him not to go.We were then about 300 yards away.Nearly all objected.A.Shiers, fireman (Br.Inq., p.48):He saw no women left.There were about forty men and women in the boat.There was no confusion among the officers and crew.We did not go back when the Titanic went down.The women in the boat said: ‘Don’t go back.’ They said: ‘If we go back the boat will be swamped.’ No compass in boat.Paul Maugé, Ritz kitchen clerk (Br.Inq.):Witness was berthed in the third-class corridor.Was awakened and went up on deck.Went down again and woke up the chef.Going through the second-class cabin he noticed that the assistants of the restaurant were there and not allowed to go on the Boat Deck.He saw the second or third boat on the starboard side let down into the water, and when it was about ten feet down from the Boat Deck he jumped into it.Before this he asked the chef to jump, but he was too fat and would not do so.(Laughter.) I asked him again when I got in the boat, but he refused.When his boat was passing one of the lower decks one of the crew of the Titanic tried to pull him out of the boat.He saw no passengers prevented from going up on deck.He thinks he was allowed to pass because he was dressed like a passenger.Mrs.Catherine E.Crosby’s affidavit (Am.Inq., p.1144):Deponent is the widow of Captain Edward Gifford Crosby and took passage with him and their daughter, Harriette R.Crosby.At the time of the collision, Captain Crosby got up, dressed, went out, came back and said to her: ‘You will lie there and drown,’ and went out again.He said to their daughter: ‘The boat is badly damaged, but I think the water-tight compartments will hold her up.’Mrs.Crosby then got up and dressed, as did her daughter, and followed her husband on deck.She got into the first or second boat.About thirty-six persons got in with them.There was no discrimination between men and women.Her husband became separated from her.She was suffering from cold while drifting around and one of the officers (Pitman) put a sail around her and over her head to keep her warm.George A.Harder, first-class passenger (Am.Inq., p.1028):As we were being lowered, they lowered one side quicker than the other, but reached the water safely after a few scares.Someone said the plug was not in, and they could not get the boat detached from the tackle.Finally, a knife was found and the rope cut.We had about forty-two people in the boat – about thirty women, Officer Pitman, a sailor and three men of the crew [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]