From Wikipedia.
A couple posts ago i wrote about the sale of items belonging to Abraham Lincoln Salomon at auction. He was one of the five first-class passengers on this boat saved from the sinking.
Lifeboat No. 1 was the fourth lifeboat launched at approximately 1:05 a.m., over an hour after the collision with the iceberg on April 14, 1912. It had a 40 person capacity, but only 12 aboard, the least number of occupants of any boat that made it off the doomed ship that night.
Most of the passengers were men, despite Captain Smith's orders of women and children first.
First Officer Murdoch, in charge of the starboard side lifeboats permitted five passengers to board Lifeboat No. 1:
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon
Lucy Duff-Gordon, his wife
Mabel Franeatella, her secretary
Abraham Lincoln Salomon
C.E. Henry Stengel, a leather manufacturer from Newark, N.J.
--Cooter
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