After first assisting their shipmates in Lifeboat No. 1 to head back towards "Wilhelm Gustloff", Schürmann was able to reach "Pegaway". One by one the 19 men on "Pegaway" jumped into the sea and were hauled onto Lifeboat No. 6, with both them and the crew of the lifeboat back at "Wilhelm Gustloff" by 7:45 am. By now a Dutch tugboat had arrived but was unable to save "Pegaway", which soon rolled to port and sank. Lifeboat No. 1 had been so badly damaged by the waves that after its crew had climbed up via ladders to the safety of their ship it was set adrift, to later be washed up on the shores of Terschelling on 2 May.