Only a few of those in the water survived. Among them were Archibald Gracie, Jack Thayer and Charles Lightoller, who made it to the capsized collapsible boat B. Around 12 crew members climbed on board Collapsible B, and they rescued those they could until some 35 men were clinging precariously to the upturned hull. Realising the risk to the boat of being swamped by the mass of swimmers around them, they paddled slowly away, ignoring the pleas of dozens of swimmers to be allowed on board. In his account, Gracie wrote of the admiration he had for those in the water; "In no instance, I am happy to say, did I hear any word of rebuke from a swimmer because of a refusal to grant assistance... refusal was met with the manly voice of a powerful man... 'All right boys, good luck and God bless you'." Several accounts suggest that Captain Smith may have possibly managed to make it to Collapsible B before succumbing to hypothermia. Gracie said he heard men onboard Collapsible B saying that Smith was aboard the boat, and noted the accounts of Harry Senior, one of Titanic's stokers, and ship's cook, "J. Maynard", actually Entree cook Isaac Maynard, who said that Smith reached the boat but was too exhausted to be saved. One of the Collapsible B survivors, fireman Walter Hurst, said he thought the swimmer who cried out, "All right boys. Good luck and God bless you", was Smith. Hurst said the man cheered the occupants on saying "Good boys! Good lads!" with "the voice of authority". Hurst, deeply moved by the swimmer's valor, reached out to him with an oar, but the man was dead by then. Several other swimmers (probably 20 or more) reached Collapsible boat A, which was upright but partly flooded, as its sides had not been properly raised. Its occupants had to sit for hours in a foot of freezing water, and many died of hypothermia during the night.