The corpse in the dinner jacket was identified as Titanic first class passenger Thomson Beattie. The bodies found by Oceanic were left on the lifeboat when Collapsible A’s survivors were picked by another lifeboat. A woman’s ring was also found on the lifeboat, according to the note.Ī number of Titanic passengers made it to the lifeboat, known as ‘Collapsible A’ when it washed off the ship’s deck, partly submerged, but not all survived. One corpse was wearing a dinner jacket and the bodies of two Titanic firemen were wedged under the lifeboat’s seats, it explained, adding that one corpse’s arms came off in the hands of the Oceanic’s boarding officer. ship's time on Apand sank just over two hours later with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.Ī handwritten account of the lifeboat recovery by an unidentified Oceanic passenger describes the gruesome discovery of three corpses. A third picture shows Oceanic crewmen on the Titanic lifeboat. One photo shows a boat from Oceanic being lowered, another shows the boat approaching the drifting lifeboat. Inside the lifeboat, thought to be the last to leave the sinking ship, were the decomposing bodies of three Titanic passengers. The three photos were taken on May 13, 1912, almost a month after Titanic’s sinking, and show crewmen from RMS Oceanic attempting to recover one of the doomed liner’s lifeboats.
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