I came across a radio interview with Albert Moss. A norwegian who claims he survived the night of the sinking by clinging on to
collapsible B. The interview was made on norwegian radio in 1963, and I believe he had just turned 80 years old at that time. I interview is available here, but it is obivously in norwegian:
Gratis klipparkiv for bruk i undervisningen. Organisert etter læreplanene.
The full interview is only 20 minutes long, but towards the end he gives a description on how they tried to launch the collapsible lifeboats. He tells that there was no time to lower the lifeboat using the davits so they just waited for the water to rise to launch it. The boat was laying on the deck with its keel down, so from what I understand this must have been Collapsible A.
He goes on telling that he was suddenly swept into the sea by a big wave, but after swimming around for a while he finds a lifeboat which was capsized (
Collapsible B). He tries to pull himself up on the overturned boat, but the people there thinks that the boat is already too crowded. There was a lot of crew members clinging on to this boat and they order a man close to Mr. Moss to "shove him off". But the man simply responds "I cannot".
Here is the interesting part: Mr. Moss claimed that the other crew members reffered to this man as Phillips. My first thought is that this could perhaps be Jack Phillips, but his prescence on Collapsible B has been debated over the years. Mr. Moss makes no other remarks about this man, so his fate is unclear.
Or maybe this is another Phillips?
I could make a longer transcription of the interview if anyone is interested. I can se that Albert Moss is listed as a survivor of Collapsible B, but I know nothing else about whether his story is confirmed or not.
source:
Collapsible B