Molly Brown wasn’t the only fascinating and inspiring woman on Lifeboat 6. There was also Elsie Bowerman, an advocate for women’s suffrage both before and after her fateful voyage on the Titanic. Here’s what she later wrote about that night, according to Biography.com: “The silence when the engines stopped was followed by a steward knocking on our door and telling us to go on deck. This we did and were lowered into lifeboats, where we were told to get away from the liner as soon as we could in case of suction. This we did, and to pull an oar in the midst of the Atlantic in April with icebergs floating about is a strange experience.”
Bowerman later became a nurse in World War I and also witnessed the Russian Revolution while she was stationed there in 1917. And after women got the vote in England in 1918, she was allowed to study law and became the first barrister to practise at famed London Courthouse the Old Bailey. During World War II, she served in the Women’s Royal Volunteer Service, and afterward, she helped organise the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women. Bowerman died in 1973 at age 83.