{"id":715,"date":"2021-11-07T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T16:16:39","slug":"charles-lightoller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lightoller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Charles Herbert Lightoller<\/strong> (30 March 1874 \u2013 8 December 1952) was a British merchant seaman and naval officer. He was <strong>the second officer<\/strong> on board the <strong>RMS Titanic <\/strong>and the <strong>most senior member <\/strong>of the crew <strong>to survive the Titanic disaster<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CharlesHLightoller.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-716\" width=\"385\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CharlesHLightoller.jpg 595w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CharlesHLightoller-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"> <strong>Charles Herbert Lightoller<\/strong><\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the officer in charge of <strong>loading passengers<\/strong> into <strong>lifeboats <\/strong>on the port side, <strong>Lightoller <\/strong>strictly <strong>enforced <\/strong>the <strong>women <\/strong>and <strong>children <\/strong>only protocol, <strong>not allowing any male passengers<\/strong> to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/544.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-786\" width=\"491\" height=\"360\"\/><figcaption><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">TITANIC<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lightoller <\/strong>served as a commanding officer in the <strong>Royal Navy during World War I <\/strong>and was <strong>twice decorated <\/strong>for <strong>gallantry<\/strong>. <strong>During World War II<\/strong>, in retirement, he provided and sailed as a volunteer on one of the &#8220;<strong>little ships<\/strong>&#8221; that played a part in the <strong>Dunkirk evacuation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Herbert Lightoller (30 March 1874 \u2013 8 December 1952) was a British merchant seaman and naval officer. He was the second officer on board the RMS Titanic and the most senior member of the crew to survive the Titanic disaster. As the officer in charge of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=715\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Lightoller<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}