“I want to say that there was nothing but the most heroic conduct on the part of all men and women at that time where I was at the bow on the port side. There was no man who asked to get in a boat with the single exception that I have already mentioned. (Referring to Col. Astor’s request to go aboard to protect his wife. Am. Inq., p. 991.) No women even sobbed or wrung their hands, and everything appeared perfectly orderly. Lightoller was splendid in his conduct with the crew, and the crew did their duty. It seemed to me it was a little bit more difficult than it should have been to launch the boats alongside the ship. I do not know the cause of that. I know I had to use my muscle as best I could in trying to push those boats so as to get them over the gunwale. I refer to these in a general way as to its being difficult in trying to lift them and push them over. (As was the case with the Engelhardt “D.”) The crew, at first, sort of resented my working with them, but they were very glad when I worked with them later on. Every opportunity I got to help, I helped.” How these statements are corroborated by the testimony of others is recorded in the detailed description of each boat that left the ship on the port side as follows: BOAT NO. 6.[6] [6] British Report (p. 38) puts this boat first to leave port side at 12.55. Lightoller’s testimony shows it could not have been the first. _No male passengers._ _Passengers:_ Miss Bowerman, Mrs. J. J. Brown, Mrs. Candee, Mrs. Cavendish and her maid (Miss Barber), Mrs. Meyer, Miss Norton, Mrs. Rothschild, Mrs. L. P. Smith, Mrs. Stone and her maid (Miss Icard). _Ordered in to supply lack of crew:_ Major A. G. Peuchen. _Said good-bye to wives and sank with ship:_ Messrs. Cavendish, Meyer, Rothschild and L. P. Smith. _Crew:_ Hitchens, Q. M. (in charge). Seaman Fleet. (One fireman transferred from No. 16 to row.) Also a boy with injured arm whom Captain Smith had ordered in. _Total:_ 28. (Br. Inq.) INCIDENTS Lightoller’s testimony (Am. Inq., p. 79): I was calling for seamen and one of the seamen jumped out of the boat and started to lower away. The boat was half way down when a woman called out that there was only one man in it. I had only two seamen and could not part with them, and was in rather a fix to know what to do when a passenger called out: “If you like, I will go.” This was a first-class passenger, Major Peuchen, of Toronto. I said: “Are you a seaman?” and he said: “I am a yachtsman.” I said: “If you are sailor enough to get out on that fall--that is a difficult thing to get to over the ship’s side, eight feet away, and means a long swing, on a dark night--if you are sailor enough to get out there, you can go down”; and he proved he was, by going down. * * * * * F. Fleet, L. O. (Am. Inq., p. 363) and (Br. Inq.):