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This week, we have been looking at real life stories of courage and

sacrifice from the tragic shipwreck in sinking of the RMS Titanic on April the 15th of 1912

and how they relate to passages from God's word. Today we'll look at the story of Harold Lowe.

So Harold Lowe was a 29-year-old Welsh seaman and the fifth officer of the Titanic, or a fifth

officer rather. So as a junior officer aboard the ship, one of his duties was to help manage

lightboats in the event of an evacuation from the ship. So after it became apparent that the

Titanic would sink after striking an iceberg just before midnight on April the 14th, 1912,

Officer Lowe was placed in charge

of lifeboat number 14, which was launched around 120 a.m. on April the 15th, 1912, carrying 63 people,

though it had a capacity for 65. Around 2.20 a.m., the RMS Titanic fully sank below the surface

of the ocean. So up to this point,

Officer Lowe had done his duty, right? He had accomplished his task. He had launched

LIPOT number 14. It was mainly full, and he helped coordinate the rescue of 63 lives. He had

done what was minimally required of him up to that point.

But he couldn't just leave it there.

Something compelled him.

Officer Lowe was one of only four officers that survived the shipwreck, and he was the only one that returned to the side of the sinking to look for survivors.

Before going back, he gathered and tied five life boats together, which helped to safely redistribute the weight to the other boats after he emptied his boat of the survivors. Okay? So in order to avoid his lifeboat being swamped and potentially leading to the deaths of all the survivors now in his care, he waited about 20 to 30 minutes before returning to the site of the sinking.

So he did his best here to balance the urgency of the situation with the safety required to preserve as much human life as possible.

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