I shall now present the record and story of each lifeboat, on both port and starboard sides of the ship, giving so far as I have been able to obtain them the names of persons loaded aboard each boat, passengers and crew; those picked up out of the water; the stowaways found concealed beneath the thwarts, and those men who, without orders, jumped from the deck into boats being lowered, injuring the occupants and endangering the lives of women and children. At the same time will be described the conditions existing when each boat was loaded and lowered, and whatever incidents occurred in the transfer of passengers to the rescuing steamer _Carpathia_. The general testimony of record, covering the conduct which was exhibited on the port side of the ship, is contained in the careful statements of that splendid officer, Charles H. Lightoller, before the United States Senate Committee: (Am. Inq., p. 88.) Senator Smith: From what you have said, you discriminated entirely in the interest of the passengers--first women and children--in filling these lifeboats? Mr. Lightoller: Yes, sir. Senator Smith: Why did you do that? Because of the captain’s orders, or because of the rule of the sea? Mr. Lightoller: The rule of human nature. And also in his testimony before the British Inquiry (p. 71): “I asked the captain on the Boat Deck, ‘Shall I get women and children in the boats?’ The captain replied, ‘Yes, and lower away.’ I was carrying out his orders. I am speaking of the port side of the ship. I was running the port side only. All the boats on this side were lowered except the last, which was stowed on top of the officers’ quarters. This was the surf boat--the Engelhardt boat (A). We had not time to launch it, nor yet to open it.” (Br. Inq.) “I had no difficulty in filling the boat. The people were perfectly ready and quiet. There was no jostling or pushing or crowding whatever. The men all refrained from asserting their strength and from crowding back the women and children. They could not have stood quieter if they had been in church.” And referring to the last boats that left the ship (Br. Inq., p. 83): “When we were lowering the women, there were any amount of Americans standing near who gave me every assistance they could.” The crow’s nest on the foremast was just about level with the water when the bridge was submerged. The people left on the ship, or that part which was not submerged, did not make any demonstration. There was not a sign of any lamentation. On the port side on deck I can say, as far as my own observations went, from my own endeavor and that of others to obtain women, there were none left on the deck. My testimony on the same point before the United States Senate Committee (Am. Inq., p. 992) was as follows: