Read what is recorded, who helped and what remains uncertain. The 3D scene is an optional illustration.
Geometry and motion are estimated. Facts and testimony are sourced individually.
Time precision · Date only; exact time not establishedThe date refers to the help described. The linked ship-loss scene supplies context, not the rescue location or its exact time.
Sheila Macbeth Mitchell and companions · care in a boat
People and actions
Edinburgh Libraries publishes scrapbook extracts in which Sheila recalls her boat’s occupants picking injured people from the water and caring for them. The library also describes returning to search after the ship sank. These actions belong to the boat’s group, not Sheila alone.
What to remember
Those escaping danger can also help others; remember shared care without assigning a solo rescue score.
What this record does not establish
These are library-published extracts and interpretation, not a complete independent incident log. The original scrapbook pages were not fully inspected. Names, individual totals and exact times are not established.
Time precision · Date only; exact time not establishedThe date refers to the help described. The linked ship-loss scene supplies context, not the rescue location or its exact time.
A contemporary Press cable attributes to Matron Dowse an account of unwell staff being carried up and evacuated safely. It records assistance within the medical team; it does not identify every helper or say Dowse carried them herself.
Facts and scope
Newspaper publication
1916-11-25date
Press, issue15757, page10. Publication date, not the evacuation date.
Caregivers may need help themselves. Assisted evacuation belongs in the record alongside independent escape.
What this record does not establish
This is an attributed newspaper account, not a verbatim interview transcript. Exact routes, helper identities and totals are unknown. The article’s provisional casualty figures and wartime claims are not adopted here.
Archival account · ON THE SEAS / ACTION OF THE NURSES; cable attributing account to Matron Dowse via Daily Chronicle Athens correspondent; contemporary newspaper, OCR text; provisional casualty claims elsewhere excluded.
Source checked · 2026-11-03
The linked scene provides context; it does not reconstruct this person’s exact time, route or actions.
Time precision · Date only; exact time not establishedThe date refers to the help described. The linked ship-loss scene supplies context, not the rescue location or its exact time.
Scourge’s sailors · sharing food after rescue
People and actions
The library’s account of Sheila’s scrapbook describes her transfer to Scourge and sailors sharing tea, biscuits and oranges. Bringing people aboard was followed by practical hospitality. The account identifies a ship’s crew effort, not a complete list of individual providers.
What to remember
Remember the ordinary things that restore comfort and dignity after immediate danger.
What this record does not establish
One survivor’s account is not a full inventory or a complete rescue-fleet history. It does not establish exact serving times, food quantities or individual rescue totals.
The expedition account describes the wreck and changes observed on the seabed. The rendered corrosion and organisms are illustrative, not a survey of each surface.
What to remember
A historical site deserves documentation and care, beyond the moment of sinking.
What this record does not establish
This selection does not reconstruct individual actions or predict an exact future collapse.