You probably mean the crew of the lifeboat. For any boats, yachts, ships etc, 'crew' is the usual word for the people who make it work.
Lifeboat number 1 carried 5 passengers and 7 crew members, making it a total of 12 people. The lifeboat's capacity was about 45. It was later speculated that the 5 passengers, since they were mostly all from one family, had bribed Officer Murdoch (the officer who launched the boat) to give them a lifeboat all to themselves. This family, the Duff-Gordons, later paid all the crew members in the lifeboat for their lost wages and supplies when the ship sank, and thus people took this as a bribe. In truth, there was no bribery, it was simply kindness taken out of context by the media, and Officer Murdoch launched the boat because the ship was starting to sink fast, and no other people were nearby. He had to get the next lifeboat ready. So, lifeboat 1 had the fewest people, with 12 passengers and crew.
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Everybody plans for eventualities, especially being in peril on the sea, but Titanic's crew missed lifeboat training the day of the sinking.
No, Not Every Lifeboat was filled, It has been said a boat was filled with 11. Also many boats were broke during the rush of the passengers and crew trying to get to safety
in 1610 when the crew put henry hudson, his son, and seven others into a small lifeboat and pushed them away . It is likely that they died of starvation or they froze to death. After he was put in the lifeboat he was never seen again.
Sound the alarm - inform a member of the crew - then get to a lifeboat station as quickly, but as calmly as possible.
There were no passengers on the SAMTAMPA - she was a cargo ship in ballast. Her crew of 39 were all drowned. The eight crew of the Mumbles Lifeboat also drowned when the boat capsized during its attempt to reach the ship.
I believe you are talking about the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown who was an American socialite aboard the Titanic. While she may have rowed lifeboat #6 for 6 hours, she is more famous for insisting that the lifeboat go back to pick up survivors from the water. Unfortunately by the time she convinced the crew on the lifeboat to return to the site of the sinking, there was nobody left alive.
Lifeboat 6
Yes, lifeboat is one word.
Lifeboat. 1944, black and white.