The Final Lifeboat Launched from the Titanic

Titanic collapsible lifeboat D, pictured here with an estimated 31 passengers, was the ninth and final lifeboat to be lowered from the ship. At first, the boat was filled with about 20 people, but it eventually received more from boat 14 later in the ordeal. Initially only filled with women and children, two men jumped in from a lower deck.

One other man, Frederick Hoyt, accompanied his wife to the lifeboat and devised a plan to swim toward the direction it was rowing in hopes that they would rescue him. Remarkably, his plan worked, making him the only person the vessel picked up from the water.