Lucile Carter was the wife of William Ernest Carter, an extremely wealthy American who inherited a fortune from his father. Both were passengers on the RMS Titanic and both survived the disaster. She was said to be one of the heroines of the tragedy as she, with some of the other socially elite women, assisted in the rowing of one of the Titanic lifeboats. Lucile gave details of what happened when she and her two children boarded Lifeboat 4. Her statement was as follows. She was acclaimed by the press later to have been one of the heroic women who rowed the heavy lifeboats.