Elizabeth Mary Leather

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• Name: Mrs Elizabeth May Leather (née Edwards)
• Titanic Survivor
• Born: Sunday 16th June 1861 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England
• Age: 50 years 9 months and 29 days (Female)
• Marital Status: Married to Isaiah (Arthur) Leather
• Last Residence: at 28 Park Road, Port Sunlight, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
• Occupation: Stewardess
• Last Ship: "Olympic"
• Victualling crew
• First Embarked: Southampton on Saturday 6th April 1912
• Rescued: (Boat 16)
• Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
• Died: Tuesday 29th June 1937 aged 76 years
• Buried: in Bobington Cemetery, Wirral, Cheshire, England on Friday 2nd July 1937
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-lifeboat-16/ Life Boat No. 16
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-deckplans/ R.M.S. Titanic deck plans

Mrs Elizabeth Leather, 50, was born in Liverpool.

When she signed-on to the Titanic on 6 April 1912 she gave her address as 28 Park Road, Port Sunlight, Liverpool. Her last ship had been the Olympic. As a stewardess she received monthly wages of £3 10s.

At the time of the collision she was asleep in her berth and was not awakened by the impact, instead she awoke some three quarters of an hour later. She found as she made her way to see to her passengers that they had already abandoned their quarters, so she proceeded on up to B deck. She was rescued in lifeboat 16.

She was called to testify at the Board of Trade Enquiry on Monday, May 20, 1912.

References and Sources Agreement and Account of Crew (PRO London, BT100/259) Wreck Commissioners' Court, Proceedings before the Right Hon. Lord Mersey on a Formal Investigation Ordered by the Board of Trade into the Loss of the S.S. Titanic

Credits Rob Ottmers, USA

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• Reference: Full text- https://archive.org/details/truthabouttitani00grac/page/n6 "The Truth About the Titanic" by Colonel Archibald Gracie, IV 1913 pp. 170-172

No. 16.*

British Report (p. 38) gives this as the sixth boat lowered from the port side at 1.35 a. m. No male passenger.

Passengers: Fifty women and children — second and third-class.

Crew: Master-at-arms Bailey in charge. Seaman Archer, Steward Andrews, Stewardess Leather, and two others.

Total: 56.

INCIDENTS

E. Archer, A. B. (Am. Inq., p. 645) : I assisted in getting Nos. 12, 14 and 16 out — getting the falls and everything ready and passengers into No. 14. Then I went to No. 16. I saw that the plug was in tight. I never saw any man get in, only my mate. I heard the officer give orders to lower the boat and to allow nobody in it, having fifty passengers and only my mate and myself. The master-at-arms came down after us; he was the coxswain and took charge. When we were loading the boat there was no effort on the part of others to crowd into it; no confusion at all. No individual men, or others w^ere repelled from getting in; everything was quiet and steady. One of the lady passengers suggested going back to see if there were any people in the water we could get, but I never heard any more of it after that. There was one lady in the boat, a stewardess (Mrs. Leather) who tried to assist in rowing. I told her it was not necessary, but she said she would like to do it to keep herself warm. There was one fireman found in the boat after we got clear. I do not know how he came there. He was transferred to another boat (No. 6) to help row.

C. E. Andrews, steward (Am. Inq., p. 623) : Besides these six men I should think there were about fifty passengers.

There was no effort on the part of the steerage men to get into our boat. I was told by the officer to allow none in it. When the officer started to fill the boat with passengers and the men to man it, there were no individuals who tried to get in, or that he permitted to get in. There was no confusion whatever. The officer asked me if I could take an oar. I said I could.

• Residence: 1871 - Everton, Lancashire, England
• Residence: 1881 - West Derby, Lancashire, England
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