--------------------------------------- | No. | Starboard | No. | Port side.| | | Side. | | | -------------------|------------------| | | _a. m._ | | _a. m._ | | 7 | 12.46 | 6 | 12.55 | | 5 | 12.55 | 8 | 1.10 | | 3 | 1.0 | 10 | 1.20 | | 1 | 1.10 | 12 | 1.25 | | 9 | 1.20 | 14 | 1.30 | | 11 | 1.25 | 16 | 1.35 | | 13 | 1.35 | 2 | 1.45 | | 15 | 1.35 | 4 | 1.56 | | C | 1.40 | D | 2.05 | |[1]A | |[3]B | | --------------------------------------- As regards the collapsible boats, C and D were properly lowered; as to A and B, which were on the roof of the officers' house, they were left until the last. There was difficulty in getting these boats down to the deck, and the ship had at this time a list. Very few of the deck hands were left in the ship, as they had nearly all gone to man the lifeboats, and the stewards and firemen were unaccustomed to work the collapsible boats. Work appears to have been going on in connection with these two boats at the time that the ship sank. The boats seem to have floated from the deck and to have served in the water as rafts. The following table shows the numbers of the male crew, male passengers, and women and children who, according to the evidence, left the ship in each boat. In three or four instances the numbers of women and children are only arrived at by subtracting the numbers of crew and male passengers from the total said to be in the boat (these are in italics). In each case the lowest figures given are taken: Key A: Starboard side boat. No. B: Men of crew. C: Men passengers. D: Women and children. E: Total. F: Port side boat No. G: Men of crew. H: Men passengers. I: Women and children. J: Total +------+----+----+------+----++------+---+----+------+----+ | A | B | C | D | E || F | G | H | I | J | +------+----+----+------+----++------+---+----+------+----+ | 7 | 3 | 4 | _20_ | 27 || 6 | 2 | 2 | _24_ | 28 | | 5 | 5 | 6 | 30 | 41 || 8 | 4 | | 35 | 39 | | 3 | 15 | 10 | _25_ | 50 || 10 | 5 | | 50 | 55 | | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 12 || 2 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 26 | | 9 | 8 | 6 | 42 | 56 || 12 | 2 | | 40 | 42 | | 11 | 9 | 1 | 60 | 70 || 14 | 8 | | 53 | 63 | | 13 | 5 | | 59 | 64 || 16 | 6 | | 50 | 56 | | 15 | 13 | 4 | _53_ | 70 || 4 | 4 | | 36 | 40 | | C | 5 | 2 | 64 | 71 || D | 2 | 2 | 40 | 44 | | A[1] | | | | || B[1] | | | | | +------+----+----+------+----++------+---+----+------+----+ |Total | 70 | 36 | 355 |461 || |37 | 7 | 349 |393 | +------+----+----+------+----++------+---+----+------+----+