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Charles Herbert Lightoller

Birth date

March 30th, 1874

Birth place

Chorley, Lancashire, England

Death date

December 8th, 1952

Death place

London, England, UK

Death cause

Chronic heart disease

Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller was the Second Officer on board the RMS Titanic, and the most senior officer to survive the disaster. Lightoller was decorated for gallantry as a naval officer in World War I and later, in retirement, further distinguished himself in World War II by providing and sailing one of the "little ships" during the perilous Dunkirk evacuation.

Biography

Early Maritime Career

Charles Herbert Lightoller was born in Chorley, Lancashire, England on 30 March 1874. His mother, Sarah Lightoller, died shortly after giving birth to him. He was born into a cotton family who owned the Lightoller mill in Chorley. His father, Fred Lightoller, abandoned young Charles and left for New Zealand. Not wanting to end up with a factory job like most of Britain's youth at the time, at the age of 13 young Charles began a four-year seafaring apprentices

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Charles Lightoller

British mariner, Royal Navy officer (1874–1952)

CommanderCharles Herbert Lightoller, DSC & Bar, RD, RNR (30 March 1874 – 8 December 1952) was a British mariner and naval officer who was the second officer on board the RMS Titanic. During the ship's sinking, and 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.[1][2] He was the most senior officer to survive the disaster. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and, despite ordering an alleged war crime while engaged in anti-submarine warfare,[3][4] he was twice decorated for gallantry.[5][6] During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, the Sundowner, and sailed her as one of the "little ships" in the Dunkirk evacuation.[7]

Early life

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Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller

In 1912, the last man to be rescued from the Titanic, Englishman Charles Herbert Lightoller boarded the ship two weeks before the maiden voyage to perform sea trials and had been Second Officer on the infamous journey.

Charles Herbert Lightoller remarked on the night of the North Atlantic disaster that the crew would have seen icebergs since the moonlight and many stars would have reflected off of them.

Despite warnings from many other ships of icebergs in the area, only one of the warnings had been posted in the chartroom, which gave the Titanic crew the impression that the situation was not as dire as it was.

Once the ship was sinking, he was vital in helping the passengers onto the lifeboats and had even resorted to holding a gun to a boat that was commandeered by a bunch of men. As the Carpathia arrived to rescue the survivors, Lightoller made sure that everyone was safe aboard the ship before he boarded, which made him the last survivor to board to safety.

In the following years, he joined the

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