There was a lot of pathos when husbands and wives kissed each other good-bye. We were the second boat (No. 8) that got away from the ship and we saw nothing that happened after that. We were not near enough. We heard the yells of the passengers as they went down, but we saw none of the harrowing part of it. The women in our boat all rowed--every one of them. Miss Young rowed every minute. The men (the stewards) did not know the first thing about it and could not row. Mrs. Swift rowed all the way to the _Carpathia_. Countess Rothes stood at the tiller. Where would we have been if it had not been for the women, with such men as were put in charge of the boat? Our head seaman was giving orders and these men knew nothing about a boat. They would say: “If you don’t stop talking through that hole in your face there will be one less in the boat.” We were in the hands of men of that kind. I settled two or three fights between them and quieted them down. Imagine getting right out there and taking out a pipe and smoking it, which was most dangerous. We had woollen rugs all around us. There was another thing which I thought a disgraceful point. The men were asked when they got in if they could row. Imagine asking men who are supposed to be at the head of lifeboats if they can row! Senator Smith: There were no male passengers in your boat? Mrs. White: Not one. I never saw a finer body of men in my life than the men passengers on this ship--athletes and men of sense--and if they had been permitted to enter these lifeboats with their families, the boats would have been properly manned and many more lives saved, instead of allowing stewards to get in the boats and save their lives under the pretence that they could row when they knew nothing about it. BOAT NO. 10.[10] [10] British Report (p. 38) says third at 1.20. I think No. 6 went later, though Buley (Am. Inq., p. 604) claims No. 10 as the last lifeboat lowered. _No male passengers in this boat._ _Passengers:_ First cabin, Miss Andrews, Miss Longley, Mrs. Hogeboom. Second cabin, Mrs. Parrish, Mrs. Shelley. 41 women, 7 children. _Crew:_ Seamen: Buley (in charge), Evans; Fireman Rice; Stewards Burke and one other. _Stowaway:_ 1 Japanese. _Jumped from A Deck into boat being lowered:_ 1 Armenian. _Total:_ 55. INCIDENTS Edward J. Buley, A. B. (Am. Inq., p. 604). Chief Officer Wilde said: “See if you can find another seaman to give you a hand, and jump in.” I found Evans, my mate, the able-bodied seaman, and we both got in the boat. * * * * * Much of Seaman Buley’s and of Steward Burke’s testimony is a repetition of that of Seaman Evans, so I cite the latter only: F. O. Evans, A. B. (Am. Inq., p. 675).