<ben.wald@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Does anyone know something about the story behind this picture?
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515742163/
>
> I'm working on a school project where we have to take a picture from
> before 1920 and provide some sort of background information that isn't
> clear from the picture itself.
The boat on the left is an Englehardt collapsible, one of the two that
were
launched instead of being washed or floated off as Titanic sank.
The boat on the right is one of the fourteen actual lifeboats (the other
two
commonly referred to as "lifeboats" were actually "emergency lifeboats"
a.k.a. "cutters."). Since it shows the mast rigged, it would make it
lifeboat #14 under the command of third officer Lowe.
See http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lifeboat-specifications.html
for
more on the boats themselves.
For further research, since this is a school project, see
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
for more details. You can, for
example, find out which collapsible that is by researching which one Lowe
picked up and towed towards Carpathia. From that you can find out who the
passengers in each boat were and, perhaps, find someone famous. Story
behind the story stuff.
Good luck.
- Bill
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