Lifeboat 14

Lifeboat 14
Lifeboat 14 (one cross) towing Collapsible lifeboat D (two crosses)
Type	Standard
Location on deck	Port aft
Time when launched from Titanic	1:25 A.M.
Capacity	65
Estimated occupancy at launch	40
Estimated occupancy at rescue	40
Previous lifeboat launched	16
Next lifeboat launched	9, 12

Lifeboat 14 (foreground) at the Carpathia with Lifeboat 11

Shootings at Lifeboat 14: a movie screenshot

Lifeboat 14 was the fourth boat to be lowered from the port side, after 6, 8 & 16. Fifth Officer Lowe took charge of the boat. About 30-32 passengers were in it and there were ten or eleven crewmen and two stewardesses; probably no more than 45 in total when lowered. Chief Officer Wilde was, according to George Crowe & Joseph Scarrott, also in the vicinity.

Lowe thought that the crowd began to be unruly and men threatened to jump into it, so as a matter of precaution, he fired a few times in the air with his gun when the boat was lowered away. Nobody was hit. People heard the shootings, however, and it may turn out that those who heard it thought that people were shot and killed. One young man had tried to enter the boat and been thrown out and either him or another man was threatened by officer Lowe, at gunpoint.

When the boat was near the water, there was some sort of trouble and they let the boat drop three or four feet, which apparently led to the boat springing a leak and water started pouring into it, and some ladies had to take care of that problem.

Later in the night, they encountered boats 4, 10, 12, and Collapsible D and Lowe decided to distribute his passengers among the others boats, wanting to go back to the wreckage to see if he could save people in the water. It is believed that eight or ten crew remained, as well as second class passenger Charles Williams, whom Lowe took for rowing before the boat was lowered away (Williams would later claim that he had been swimming around in the water, yet officer Lowe's testimony proves that Williams entered the boat from the deck). Rowing into the area, No. 14 encountered few left alive: First class passenger William Hoyt was hauled in but died, a Chinese third class passenger was rescued as well as steward Harold Phillimore. There may have been a fourth person rescued, even though some in the crew thought there were three saved and one died and another crewman said they found four, but two died. After having rescued these people, they spotted the swamped collapsible lifeboat A and took the few people from it into boat 14. There were perhaps a dozen people on boat A. No. 14 reached the Carpathia, after 7 o'clock in the morning, with perhaps 28 or so people on board.

Based on a summary by Peter Engberg

Passengers & crew on board

1. Edith Eileen Brown
2. Elizabeth Catherine Brown
3. Clear Annie Cameron
4. Ada Maria Clarke
5. Marjorie Charlotte Collyer
6. Charlotte Annie Collyer
7. Sara Rebecca Compton
8. Mary Eliza Compton
9. Selena Cook
10. George Frederick Crowe
11. John Morgan Davies
12. Elizabeth Agnes Mary Davies
13. William Harder
14. Frederick Harris
15. Eva Miriam Hart
16. Esther Ada Hart
17. Laina Heikkinen
18. William Fisher Hoyt (passed away)
19. Bertha Ilett (transferred to lifeboat 12)
20. Fang Lang
21. Louise Laroche
22. Simonne Marie Anne Andrée Laroche
23. Juliette Marie Louise Laroche
24. Amelia Lemore
25. Alice Adelaide Louch
26. Harold Godfrey Lowe (in charge)
27. Madeleine Violet Mellinger
28. Elizabeth Anne Mellinger
29. Daisy E. Minahan
30. Lillian E. Minahan
31. Meier Moor
32. Beila Moor
33. Frank Herbert Morris
34. Adele Nasser (possibly)
35. Harold Charles William Phillimore
36. Emilio Ilario Giuseppe Portaluppi
37. Alfred Pugh
38. Edward Ryan
39. Joseph George Scarrott
40. Thamīn Tannūs
41. Thomas Threlfall
42. Ellen Wallcroft
43. Ralph Lester Wells
44. Joan Wells
45. Addie Dart Wells
46. Charles Eugene Williams