50 Images From The Titanic You Have To See To Believe

Some Male Survivors might have Disguised themselves

Because of the limited number of lifeboats on the Titanic, and the limited carrying capacity of the available ones, there was a women and children first policy for loading the lifeboats. However, rumors have it that a couple of men disguised themselves as women to get on the lifeboats.

This was even identified as the reason Dickinson and Helen Bishop got divorced four years after the ship sank. Dickinson reportedly got dressed as a woman to survive the ship’s sinking. Other male passengers like William Carter and J. Bruce Ismay were also rumored to have done the same.