Is this true?

[123everton]

I've just read a letter written by a Mr. G J Rowe, who was a crew member on the Titanic, to Walter Lord, author of "A Night To Remember."
The letter's pretty unremarkable with exception to the post script, in this he describes the aftermath, that all the life boats were loaded apart from the two Engelhardt (collapsible) boats (there was actually four, one was upturned though) so presumably one or two were loaded.
The two boats were emptied completely and then cut away, exactly four weeks later he claims R.M.S Olympic found one of these boats with two dead stokers and a passenger aboard.
I've never come across this, so, is there any evidence to support this story?

[boxtops]

I've always understood that some lifeboats couldn't be launched because of the angle at which the ship was going down http://wiki.answers.c...s_were_on_the_Titanic

[ABerrant]

After the "1912 mutiny" RMS Olympic departed Southampton 15th May. This would place it in the vicinity more like 5 weeks after the sinking.

RMS Oceanic recovered three bodies, occupants of Collapsible A, which was swamped in the last moments of the sinking. Several people managed to reach this lifeboat, although some died during the night. When Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued the survivors of Collapsible A, he left the three dead bodies in the boat: Thomas Beattie, a first-class passenger, and two crew members, a fireman and a seaman. The bodies were buried at sea from Oceanic.

[ABerrant]

^ Thomson (not Thomas) Beattie.

[123everton]

Just found this, most likely to be good old fashioned sensationalism, http://www.encycloped...tims-died-hunger.html

[ABerrant]

Fifth Officer Harold Lowe was in lifeboat No. 14. He gathered four more lifeboats (Nos. 10, 12, [unknown] and a collapsible) together and redistributed the survivors in the group of lifeboats to ready one lifeboat to return to the wreck and search for additional survivors. This resulted in the rescue of four men one of whom, first-class passenger William Hoyt, died later that night.

Lowe had his crew of men raise the mast (he was the only officer to make use of the mast and sail in each lifeboat) and the available breeze allowed them to sail to the sinking Collapsible A, from which they plucked twenty-one survivors and left the three dead bodies. He then sailed on to the Carpathia.

Lowe's testimony at the US Senate Inquiry includes this about Collapsible A:

'As to the three people that I left on her - of course, I may have been a bit hard hearted, I can not say - but I thought to myself, "I am not here to worry about bodies; I am here for life, to save life, and not to bother about bodies," and I left them.'

http://www.titanicinq...Inq/AmInq05Lowe01.php