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Lifeboat No. 6 was one of Titanic's twenty lifeboats aboard the ship when she sank. It was the most famous of Titanic's lifeboats as it carried Molly Brown, who tried and failed to hijack the craft in an attempt to rescue survivors in the water in the Titanic, but succeeded in real life.

Titanic Sinking[]

Lifeboat 6 is prepared for being filled with passangers

Lifeboat 6 is prepared for being filled with passengers

Second Officer Charles Lightoller prepared, loaded and launched lifeboat 6 at 1:00 A.M. in the movie. In real life, lifeboat 6 had twenty eight people with a full capacity of 65 and was launched much sooner, as early as 12:40 A.M. Robert Hichens was put in charge of this boat. Among the passengers in the boat were Frederick Fleet, the lookout, Margaret Brown and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, who boarded immediately. Rose DeWitt Bukater was also about to board this boat (under her mother's demands) but she realized she couldn't leave Jack Dawson. She bid her mother goodbye and escaped from Cal's attempt to force her to stay, abandoning them both so she could be with (and rescue) Jack. Right after she left, the boat was launched to the freezing North Atlantic Ocean. Ruth back to her but she doesn't respond. Lifeboat 6 started to row away from Titanic and was soon at sea.

Lifeboat 6 was launched

Lifeboat No. 6 was launched

In a deleted scene, Molly urged Hichens to go back to the ship, but he refused, saying they will be plunged if they do. Back on the ship, Captain Edward Smith, Chief Officer Henry Wilde, and Thomas Andrews saw that the boat has enough room for more people. They yell for the boat to come back with Smith talking into a loudspeaker saying, "THIS IS THE CAPTAIN, COME BACK TO THE SHIP!". The passengers row back but Hitchens tells them, "It's our lives now, not theirs". He then yells, "And I'm in charge of this boat! NOW ROW!". Smith says to himself "The fools" as Chief Officer Henry Wilde loses his temper and left to help with the aft port lifeboats.

Molly and Ruth and other people end up surviving on this boat. It was eventually found and tied up to Boat 16 after the Titanic sank. It was one of the last to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia at 8:00 A.M.

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Titanic Boat 6- Deleted scene

Trivia[]

  • In the real disaster Brown asked Hichens to let the women row to help keep them warm. When he refused, she threatened to throw him overboard.
  • In the actual sinking Boat 6 played a large role and one of the most notable lifeboats in Titanic's lifeboat, along with lifeboat 14. Like the Olympic and Britannic, nothing remains now of Lifeboat 6.
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