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Second Officer '''Charles Lightoller ''' (March 30^th, 1874 - December 8^th, 1952) was the crewmember manning the lifeboats on the port side during [[The Sinking of RMS Titanic]]. He strictly enforced the protocol of allowing women and children to board the lifeboats first, denying male passengers access to the lifeboats unless auxiliary seamen were needed. Several shots were allegedly fired by an officer on the ''Titanic'', possibly Lightoller as he threatened a group of men who were in one of the lifeboats and told them he wanted to see them overboard. He was swept overboard, but survived along with 30 others by climbing onto an upturned boat and showed them how to adjust their weight to avoid sinking. He also went on to fight in [[World War I]], during which he sank the U-boat ''UB-110''. The captain later made an accusation that Lightoller had committed a [[war crime]] by ordering his men to kill the surrendering crew, but Lightoller was never brought to trial over this. In his memoir, he said that he "refused to accept the hands up business" along with the above quote. He died of heart disease on 8 December 1952.

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