Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC&Bar RD RNR
(1874-1952)

Commander, Distinguished Service Cross & Bar recipient, Decoration for Officers of the Royal Navy Reserve recipient, and member of the Royal Navy Reserve

Died aged 78

Charles Herbert Lightoller, DSC & Bar, RD, RNR (30 March 1874 – 8 December 1952) was a British mariner 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, Lightoller strictly enforced the women and children only protocol, not allowing any male passengers to board the lifeboats unless they were needed as auxiliary seamen. Lightoller served as a commanding officer in the Royal Navy during World War I and was twice decorated for gallantry. During World War II, in retirement, he voluntarily provided his personal yacht, named the Sundowner and sailed her as one of the "little ships" that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

This school stands on the site of Yarrow House, boyhood home of Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC RD RNR (1874-1952) Second Officer on board RMS Titanic and the most senior officer to survive the disaster of 14th April 1912. He was decorated for gallantry in 1916 and was awarded a bar to it in 1918 after sinking a U-boat. In 1940 he helped in the evacuation of Dunkirk using his motor yacht Sundowner, now preserved at the Maritime Museum, Ramsgate.

Albany High School, Chorley, United Kingdom where they lived

Sundowner. This ‘Little Ship’ was owned by Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller DSC*, RD, RNR (1874-1952), second officer and most senior surviving crew member of RMS Titanic, survivor of two sinking ships and two world wars. He captained Sundowner across the English Channel, leading a fleet of ‘Little Ships’ to aid in the evacuation of Dunkirk, rescuing 130 people in one trip on 1st June 1940.

Little Ships Restaurant, 54-56 Harbour Parade, Ramsgate, United Kingdom where they sailed from the port near