Radio commander wiki9/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Lightoller returned to the Primrose Hill for his third voyage. ![]() Lightoller joined the crew of the clipper ship Duke of Abercorn for his return to England. They were rescued by the Coorong and taken to Adelaide, Australia. Another storm, on 13 November 1889 in the Indian Ocean, caused the ship to run aground on an uninhabited four-and-a-half-square-mile island now called Île Saint-Paul. Repairs were made in the midst of a smallpox epidemic and a revolution. During a storm in the South Atlantic, the ship was forced to put in at Rio de Janeiro. On his second voyage, he set sail with the crew of the Holt Hill. Early maritime career Īt age 13, not wanting to end up with a factory job, Charles began a four-year apprenticeship on board the barque Primrose Hill. His father, Frederick James Lightoller, emigrated to New Zealand when Charles was 10, leaving him in the care of extended family. ![]() His mother, Sarah Jane Lightoller (née Widdows), died of scarlet fever shortly after giving birth to him. Early life Ĭharles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, Lancashire, on 30 March 1874, into a family that had operated cotton-spinning mills in Lancashire since the late 18th century. During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, named the Sundowner and sailed her as one of the " little ships" that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and was twice decorated for gallantry. As the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, Lightoller strictly enforced the women and children only protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. He was the second officer on board the RMS Titanic and the most senior member of the crew to survive the Titanic disaster. Charles Herbert Lightoller, DSC & Bar, RD, RNR (30 March 1874 – 8 December 1952) was a British mariner and naval officer. ![]()
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