Brass Lifeboat Flag This lifeboat flag was removed from one of the thirteen lifeboats brought back to New York by the Carpathia. It was purchased from a relative of the man who removed it. He also had an SS Titanic lifeboat plaque which he kept. This lifeboat brass flag is also pictured and documented in "Titanic: Touchstones of a Tragedy" by author and historian, Steve Santini.