Boat 14 used to look for survivors of the freezing water
Lifeboat 14 is the 14th Lifeboat of the RMS Titanic. It was the only lifeboat to return to the scene of Titanic's sinking to look for survivors.
Titanic's sinking[]
Lifeboat 14 was launched by Chief Officer Henry Wilde, Second Officer Charles Lightoller and fifth officer Harold Lowe at 1:40 A.M. At the time about 45 people were aboard Boat 14, Fifth Officer Lowe was put in charge of it by the suggestion of Sixth Officer James Moody. Lowe fired three shots from his revolver to warn off a crowd of passengers pressing up against the rails.
The boat reached the water safely. After Titanic sank, he brought together lifeboat 10, 12, 14 and Collapsible D, transferred many of those aboard Boat 14 to the these lifeboats and took the boat back to the scene of the sinking to try to find survivors in the freezing water, acting like a rescue boat. This was the only bid mounted that night yet it came too late. By the time Lowe's boat reached the scene of the sinking, the sea was filled with the bodies of hundreds of people who had died of hypothermia.
A few individuals were pulled from the sea but most were already dead or dying. Only six of those who were picked from the sea survived including Rose DeWitt Bukater who their attention was drawn to after she used the whistle of the dead officer Henry Wilde, leaving Jack behind; as he'd died of hypothermia. The boat also had a hard time rowing around the sea of dead bodies as Lowe was careful not to hit any heads of the dead bodies. Lowe raised his voice and yelled throughout the sea saying "Is anyone alive out there? Can anyone hear me?!."
The Chinese man is saved from the water.
In a deleted scene, the Chinese man is saved by boat 14 by standing on a piece of the debris from the ship. When brought aboard, fifth Officer Lowe orders the people on board to wrap heat blankets that restore heat to the body to keep them warm.
A few hours later Lowe rescued the survivors aboard Collapsible Boat A, which was close to sinking, and brought them aboard Boat 14. The boat rendezvoused with Carpathia at about 7:15 am.