What happened to Titanic’s Collapsible A after the sinking?
Author and maritime researcher Mark Chirnside joins Damon Henrichs to follow the extraordinary provenance of one of Titanic’s most unusual lifeboats.
Collapsible A was never launched in the conventional sense. As Titanic disappeared beneath the Atlantic, the partially flooded boat floated free, with survivors struggling aboard. But its story did not end on the morning of April 15, 1912.
Nearly a month later, the White Star liner Oceanic encountered the abandoned boat drifting in the Atlantic, with bodies still aboard. Her crew investigated the grim discovery, recovered personal effects, buried the dead at sea, and brought Collapsible A aboard Oceanic..
