RMS Titanic for a ship of "Titanic"'s size, and tenders were used to bring passengers aboard. In all, 123 passengers boarded "Titanic" at Queenstown – three First Class, seven Second Class and 113 Third Class. In addition to the 24 cross-channel passengers who had disembarked at Cherbourg, another seven passengers had booked an overnight passage from Southampton to Queenstown. Among the seven was Father Francis Browne, a Jesuit trainee who was a keen photographer and took many photographs aboard "Titanic", including the last-ever known photograph of the ship. A decidedly unofficial departure was that of a crew member, stoker John Coffey, a
Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic had left a husband on board). The boat was the first to reach "Carpathia", at 4:10 a.m. Boat 10 was launched at about 1:50 A.M. with Able Seaman Edward Buley in charge. It appears to have had about 35 people aboard when it was launched. By this time "Titanic" was listing to port, making it increasingly difficult to launch lifeboats from that side of the ship, as the ship's list had created a gap of about between the deck and the sides of the port-side lifeboats. An attempt to board by a young French woman nearly ended in disaster when