![]() 75 years later, a Titanic expedition team exploring the debris field found the wallet and was able to recover it intact from the ocean floor. Taking the rope in hand, Arthur swung himself off Titanic and into the lifeboat, and survived the sinking.ĭuring that swing, his wallet slipped loose and splashed into the ocean, sinking to the bottom. But Lightoller replied that if he was as good a seaman as he claimed to be, he could rope down to the boat, about 25ft below. The Captain approved of this, and told him to go down to the promenade and hop out a window into the lifeboat. With no crew near Arthur Peuchen, an experienced yachtsman, stepped forward to heed the call. ![]() He called out, seeing if he could get another sailor into the boat. ![]() In the confusion of the sinking, he started lowering the lifeboat away with only one crewman aboard. As the Titanic was sinking, Second Officer Lightoller was trying to get Lifeboat #6 away.
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