Another scene from my titanic film
After signaling the ship on the horizon for almost the entire sinking, the crew give up on the hope that the ship not that far off will come and rescue them. This was the Californian, which did not know that they were seeing the Titanic sink despite them noticing the ship at an odd angle(believing it was the ship turning at anchor), or the fact that the there were rockets coming from the ship(believing it was company signals).
Lifeboat 4 gets filled with passengers by the command of Officer Lightoller, who had a strict policy on the women and children first social norm. Lifeboat 4 was lowered to the promenade deck, where passengers climbed through the opened windows into the boat.