The passengers included Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon his wife Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon her secretary, Mabel Francatelli Abraham Salomon and C. Murdoch permitted five passengers and seven crewmembers to board Boat 1. Most of the occupants of Boat 1 were men, despite Captain Smith's call for "women and children first." First Officer Murdoch, in charge of the evacuation effort on the ship's starboard side, allowed a number of First-Class male passengers to board lifeboats. The lifeboat had a capacity of 40 people, but was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. 1 was the fifth lifeboat launched from RMS Titanic at 1:05 A.M., well over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912. Each standard clinker-built lifeboat on the ship had a capacity of 65, while the smaller emergency boat's capacity was 40. Although they performed double-duty as lifeboats, their primary purpose was to serve the crew in the event of an emergency, such as a man overboard, and were therefore already swung out from the rail to be launched quickly. 1 was one of two small "emergency" wooden cutters that were located one on each side of the Titanic No.
With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. 1 (front) emergency cutter as shown on a large-scale Titanic model
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