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.
Carpathia · Rostron and a prepared crew
People and actions
The Senate report records Rostron turning Carpathia toward the distress call. While the ship approached, crew prepared medical stations, blankets, hot drinks and space for survivors. Rescue depended on coordinated work across departments.
What to remember
Remember practical preparation and care, including the work of people who are not individually named here.
What this record does not establish
Orders in a report do not establish every person’s actions or an exact minute-by-minute route. Rescue totals differ across historical records; none is assigned to one person here.
Investigation report · Account of the Saving and Rescue of those who Survived; course change, reception and reported totals; Titanic Inquiry Project transcription
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.
Harold Lowe and volunteers · returning to search
People and actions
Lowe testified that he transferred passengers to other boats, asked for volunteers and returned in boat14 to search the wreckage. He said four people were brought aboard alive; one later died. This describes a crew effort, not a solo rescue.
Facts and scope
People picked up alive, according to Lowe
4people
This return search only; one later died. Not four final survivors or all boat14 rescues.
Remember the volunteers and the difference between bringing someone aboard alive and their eventual survival.
What this record does not establish
This is Lowe’s testimony, not an independently measured rescue total. It does not identify every volunteer or establish exact personal routes. The four are not the total rescued by boat14 in all operations.
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.
Violet Jessop · caring for a child
People and actions
The Cornwall museum relates Jessop’s recollection that an officer handed her a baby as she entered a Titanic lifeboat. She said a woman later took the child aboard Carpathia. The episode is presented as recollection, not a fully identified family history.
What to remember
Care also includes staying with someone who cannot look after themselves.
What this record does not establish
The child’s identity, the woman’s relationship to the child and an exact time are not established here. This is a Titanic account from1912, not a Britannic episode.