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发帖数: 6929 | 15 泰坦尼克事故调查有关中国水手的听证纪录：
There were eight Chinese passengers aboard Titanic, all of them sailors who
found themselves out of work because of the coal strike in Britain.
All were reassigned to a Donald Line freighter, Annetta, which was docked in
New York and chartered by the Atlantic Fruit Company to sail to Cuba. From
there, the sailors hoped to make their way back to Hong Kong.
Their names vary on a number of manifests, but U.S. Immigration record them
as Ah Lam (or Ali Lam), Len Lam, Bing Lee (or Lee Bing), Fang Lang, Chip
Chang (or Chang Chip) , Foo Cheang (or Choong Foo), and Ling Hee. They all
travelled on a single ticket, number 1601 (￡59, 9s, 11d).
The Lams were Cantonese; the others were British subjects from Hong Kong.
Bing Lee was married, all the others were single. Asians, even if they
travelled on British passports, were marginalized in Europe and North
America in 1912. They were tolerated but not accepted in society and would
have been shunned and not have been able to socialize with other steerage
passengers aboard Titanic.
Perhaps because they were sailors and knew the inner workings of a ship, all
of them made it into the lifeboats, but only six survived. According to one
newspaper, the two who died, Len Lam and Ling Lee, hid themselves under the
slats in the lifeboat and were “crushed to death by the weight of the
other passengers sitting on top of them. ” In fact, they probably died of
hypothermia.
There is disagreement over which boats they escaped in. Four of the men are
thought to have escaped in Collapsible C, one possibly in lifeboat 13 and
the sixth was picked up from the water by the sailors in lifeboat 14.
Re: Collapsible C.
According to Mrs Frank Goldsmith some of the Chinese sailors were discovered
when Murdoch and Wilde attempted to prevent a rush on Collapsible C. Four
of the Chinese sailors allegedly refused to get out of the boat and hid down
among the women passengers; Mrs Goldsmith said that the officer didn't dare
fire at them for fear of hitting the women, so the boat was eventually
lowered away with four of the Chinese sailors still aboard.
Second Officer: Charles Lightoller:
Board of Trade Inquiry
14001 Ultimately she was filled with women, the collapsible boat?
Yes, I believe it was a new boat, where a couple of Phillipinos or Chinese
got in, they stowed away under the thwarts or something. But for that there
were no men except crew - except the men I ordered in.
Quartermaster George Rowe and Bruce Ismay testified that the men were only
discovered after the boat had been lowered.
Senate Inquiry
Senator BURTON. The passengers, aside from your sailors, were all women and
children?
Mr. ROWE. Except Mr. Ismay and another gentleman. When daylight broke, we
found four men, Chinamen, I think they were, or Filipinos.
Senator BURTON. Were those additional to the 39?
Mr. ROWE. Yes, sir.
Senator BURTON. All the rest of the 39 were women and children, except two,
Mr. Ismay and another gentleman?
Mr. ROWE. Yes, sir.
Senator BURTON. When day broke, you found four Chinamen or Filipinos under
the seats?
Mr. ROWE. Not under the seats then, sir. They came up between the seats.
Board of Trade Inquiry
17646. And the rest of the people were what?
What I thought were women and children.
17647. Did they prove to be women and children? –
No, not at daybreak.
17648. Why? Tell us about that? -
I found four Chinamen aboard.
17649. Where were they? –
I could not see at the time.
17650. They were in the boat somewhere? -
They were in there at daybreak.
17651. How they got in you do not know, I suppose? -
No.
17652. (The Commissioner.) Were they all women and children, with the
exception of three Chinamen? -
Four Chinamen and Mr. Ismay and Mr. Carter.
17653. I have two male passengers. Were the rest all women and children with
the exception of the crew and the four Chinamen?
And the two gentlemen.
First Class Passenger: J. Bruce Ismay
Senate Inquiry.
Senator FLETCHER. How many men were in the boat?
Mr. ISMAY. Three - four. We found four Chinamen stowed away under the
thwarts after we got away. I think they were Filipinos, perhaps. There were
four of them.
Board of Trade Inquiry.
18563.Am I right, then, in this, that there were women and children and some
members of the crew to man the boat and two passengers, yourself and Mr.
Carter?
Yes, and four Chinamen were in the boat.
18564.Four Chinamen who, we have heard, were discovered after the boat was
lowered?
Yes.
Re: Lifeboat 13
Saloon Steward: Frederick Dent Ray.
Senate Inquiry.
Senator SMITH. I would like to know how many first-class male passengers
there were.
Mr. RAY. I could not say, sir. There was one Japanese. I remember a Japanese
, very well, being there. I have no idea, because I could not discriminate
second from third class passengers.
Re: Lifeboat 14
One of the other sailors, identity not definitely established but sometimes
listed as Fang Lang, was later found, lashed to a door or board by Officer
Lowe when he took lifeboat 14 back to pick up survivors from the water. This
fact was verified by Saloon Steward: George Frederick Crowe:
Senate Inquiry.
Mr. CROWE. ... also a Japanese or Chinese young fellow that we picked up on
top of some of the wreckage - it might have been a sideboard or table - that
was floating around...
Second Class Passenger: Charlotte Collyer:
A little further on, we saw a floating door that must have been torn loose
when the ship went down. Lying upon it, face downward, was a small Japanese.
He had lashed himself with a rope to his frail raft, using the broken
hinges to make the knots secure. As far as we could see, he was dead. The
sea washed over him every time the door bobbed up and down, and he was
frozen stiff. He did not answer when he was hailed, and the officer
hesitated about trying to save him.
"What's the use?" said Mr. Lowe. He's dead, likely, and if he isn't there's
others better worth saving than a Jap!"
He had actually turned our boat around; but he changed his mind and went
back. The Japanese was hauled on board, and one of the women rubbed his
chest, while others chafed his hands and feet. In less time than it takes to
tell, he opened his eyes. He spoke to us in his own tongue; then, seeing
that we did not understand, he struggled to his feet, stretched his arms
above his head, stamped his feet, and in five minutes or so had almost
recovered his strength. One of the sailors near to him was so tired that he
could hardly pull his oar. The Japanese bustled over, pushed him from his
seat, took the oar and worked like a hero until we were finally picked up. I
saw Mr. Lowe watching him in open-mouthed surprise.
"By Jove!" muttered the officer. "I'm ashamed of what I said about the
little blighter. I'd save the likes o' him six times over, if I got the
chance."
Once the six survivors arrived in New York, they were detained, “placed
under guard by U.S. Immigration officers,” and immediately escorted to the
Annetta, which sailed the next day for Cuba. Four of the survivors later
filed damage claims with the White Star Line: Chip Chang for $177, Fang Lang
, for $137, and Bing Lee $99.34 and Ling Lee’s wife filed for $91.05 for
the loss of her husband,
【在 t*c 的大作中提到】
: 泰坦尼克号记载有六位中国人和一位日本人，
: 似乎全都获救了。
: 这六位中国人来自香港，是泰坦尼克上的机房
: 锅炉工，每天工作十四个小时，但住三等舱房。
: 一位日本人是日本铁道部的官员，住二等舱。
: 但泰坦尼克快要沉没时，有四位中国人分别设法躲进
: 救生船座位底下，当救生船离开时才被发现。而一位
: 中国人冒险跳入载有35名妇女即将放下的救生船，
: 被船员发现，本要开枪，又怕伤及妇女，最终得以逃生。
: 另一位中国人抓住木板落水昏迷，被快要离开
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