Talk:Harold Lowe

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:47, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Clearly at the tiller?
An image taken by a passenger on the Carpathia clearly shows Lowe at the tiller of lifeboat 14 as they approach rescue.1

I don't think the picture referenced "clearly" shows anything, except some people in a boat, with a man (who could be anyone) at the tiller. Unless it's a low quality reproduction of a much better image, the statement is questionable. 66.234.222.96 (talk) 14:13, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Minor changes
Updated the article to give Lowe's birthplace it's proper designation, Conwy County did not exist at the time of his birth and the village is properly known as Llanrhos (see linked Wikipedia page confirming this).

I also removed the claim that Lowe was reprimanded for being racist, as the source linked was insufficiently clear and included no page numbers to reference. Will be happy to return it once the claim is properly sourced. Incidentally, the word 'racist' does not appear at all in the text of Walter Lord's a night to remember, so I'm not expecting this to happen any time soon.
 * I've had a chance to look into this and it seems that after giving testimony to the US hearings, Lowe was approached by the Italian ambassador and asked to amend his statement that the steerage passengers who threatened to swamp the boats were 'Italians'. Lowe was happy to amend the record to clarify that these people were Latin in appearance, removing the word Italian; and the testimony records were updated accordingly. The claim that he used the word 'Italian' as a synonym for coward is groundless. The claim that he was reprimanded for being racist is also groundless. It was a matter of national pride which led the ambassador to seek a formal retraction for his erroneous categorisation, which Lowe gladly offered.

Telenarn (talk) 15:30, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

I also cleared up the timeline of the rescue and removed some editorializing / opinion, whilst updating the source to include proper references, including page numbers.Telenarn (talk) 20:53, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Update: The only biography of Lowe (used as a source for this article) is at odds with the tone here. I have updated the legacy section to include some of the (many) tributes paid to Lowe by survivors of the Titanic whose lives he directly altered. Far, far too much emphasis has been placed on scuttlebutt written after the event by people who were never there, using one or two isolated sources, which go very much against the broader flow of praise for the man.Telenarn (talk) 02:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)