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Updated: October 15, 2025
That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man and fugitive from justice, known to the police and in sporting circles as J. H. Rogers, went down with the Titanic after assisting many women aboard life-boats, became known when a note, written on a blank page torn from a diary: was delivered to his sister. This note was given by Rogers to a woman he was helping into a life-boat.
"Is it true that some of the life-boats sank with the Titanic?" "Yes. There was some trouble in manning them. They were not far enough away from her." All of this questioning and receiving replies was carried on with the greatest difficulty. The pounding of the liner's engines, the washing of the sea, the tugboat's engines, made it hard to understand the woman's replies.
He knew that however serious the damage, there was but small danger to life, since the convoy was at hand and since there were so very few people upon the ship; there were life-boats enough, without crowding, for all on board. But the impact, throwing him down the steps, as it did, had caused him to twist his foot and he limped over to the rail for its assistance in walking.
One man said there was absolutely no danger, that the boat was the finest ever built, with water-tight compartments, and that it could not sink. That seemed to be the general impression. A few of the men, however, were panic-stricken even when the first of the fifty-six foot life-boats was being filled. Fully ten men threw themselves into the boats already crowded with women and children.
"I'm thinking of transferring our account to your bank, Mr. Landover. We've been banking with " "I vas telling my vife at lunch," broke in Mr. Block, twitching his Hebraic nose emphatically, "not that we could eat any lunch, by gracious, no! I vas telling her I bet my boots dere ain't enough life-boats to get as much as half of us off safe in case something happens.
The 700 escaped filled most of the sixteen life-boats and the one collapsible which got away, to the limit of their capacity. "Had the ship struck the iceberg head on at whatever Mrs. speed and with whatever resulting shock, the bulkhead system of water-tight compartments would probably have saved the vessel.
There were no life-boats in those days; now the lives of hundreds are annually saved by the noble self-devotion of British sailors. My mother was the daughter of Samuel Charters, Solicitor of the Customs for Scotland, and his wife Christian Murray, of Kynynmont, whose eldest sister married the great grandfather of the present Earl of Minto. My grandmother was exceedingly proud and stately.
"The first life-boat reached the Carpathia about half-past five o'clock in the morning," recorded one of the passengers on the Carpathia. "And the last of the sixteen boats was unloaded before nine o'clock. Some of the life-boats were only half filled, the first one having but two men and eleven women, when it had accommodations for at least forty. There were few men in the boats.
As to the Isle of Man, situated in the track of an enormous traffic, with shores frequently studded with wrecks, we are told that there is not a single life-boat; for the four boats established there by Sir William Hillary, Baronet, 'have been allowed to fall into decay, and hardly a vestige of them remains! The paltry eight life-boats for the whole Irish coast of 1400 miles are stated to be likewise inefficient.
Many women went down, steerage women who were unable to get to the upper decks where the boats were launched, maids who were overlooked in the confusion, cabin passengers who refused to desert their husbands or who reached the decks after the last of the life-boats was gone and the ship was settling for her final plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic.
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