He then went down to B deck and started throwing deck chairs overboard. ![]() By the time he emerged, all the boats had gone. After the boat was launched, Joughin went back to his room and had a drop more liquor before returning to the boat deck. ![]() He helped to put women and children in the boat but did not get in himself. He then went up to the boat deck to get to his assigned lifeboat (ten) on the port side of the ship. He sent his bakers up with over 50 loaves of bread to provision the lifeboats and returned to his room for a drink. His evidence was heard on day six of the inquiry.Ĭharles Joughin testified that he was off duty, in his bunk, when the accident happened. He returned to England on the Lapland and was called to give evidence at the Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking. He was rescued by Carpathia and arrived in New York on 16 April 1912. ![]() Joughin survived the sinking, swimming to upturned collapsible lifeboat B and remaining by it until he was picked up by one of the other lifeboats. The 1911 census confirms that his wife Louise, aged 31, from Douglas, Isle of Man, his daughter Agnes, aged three, born in Kirkdale, Liverpool, and his son Roland, aged one, born in Southampton, were also living at this address. When Joughin signed on he gave his age as 30 and his address as Elmhurst, Leighton Road, Southampton. CR 10 card recording Joughin’s post-Titanic career.
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