Titanic valour

Harold Lowe, fifth officer of RMS Titanic, was described by a surviving passenger as the real hero of the Titanic. Lowe took command of a flotilla of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors. He was the only officer to do so and succeeded in raising a sail, rescuing the drenched inhabitants of a sinking lifeboat, and towed another boat to safety. Not only did he survive the sinking of the Titanic but as a fifteen-year-old runaway went to West Africa and saw action in Siberia during the Russian Revolution.