Sinking of the "Titanic"
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Published in 1912 within months of the sinking of the Titanic, this "memorial edition" of first-hand accounts by survivors, people in rescue boats, and other on-the-scene witnesses, offers heart-wrenching testimony about the great disaster, steeped in the sentiments of the day.Surviving passengers recount heart-breaking tales of parting with loved ones, watching the great ship sink while the steadfast band played "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and floating helplessly for long hours on icy seas. The search for responsibility began amid the grief of widows and orphans aboard the rescue vessel Carpat...
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- MEMORIAL EDITION SINKING OF THE “TITANIC” MOST APPALLING Ocean Horror
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- Hymn for Survivors of the Titanic.
- CONTENTS.
- GREAT MARINE DISASTERS FROM 1866 TO 1911.
- HUNDREDS WEEP AT MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD FOR “ARCHIE” BUTT.
- CHAPTER I. FROM A DAY OF DELIGHT TO DEATH.
- TALK OF HOME AND FRIENDS AND LIFE.
- APPROACHING HOME AND FRIENDS.
- THE LOOKOUT’S WARNING CRY.
- HARDER TO GO THAN TO STAY.
- INSUFFICIENT LIFE-BOATS.
- CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE BRIDGE.
- “NEARER MY GOD TO THEE.”
- ADMIRATION AND CONFIDENCE.
- AN AGONIZING SEPARATION.
- ECHOING SPLASH OF CHILLY WATERS.
- BOATS FOLLOW THE GREEN LIGHT.
- THE LAST OF THE LINE OF BOATS.
- HOPE REVIVED BY SIGHT OF CATTLE BOAT.
- PROUD OF HER HUSBAND’S OARSMANSHIP.
- AN OBJECT OF PITYING SIGHS.
- THE OFFICERS’ REQUIREMENTS DISCUSSED.
- CHAPTER II. HEART-RENDING SCENES ON CARPATHIA.
- CAPTAIN ROSTROM’S RULE.
- SECOND OFFICER ON WATCH.
- ALL BOATS BUT ONE GET AWAY SAFELY.
- BLOWN FIFTEEN FEET.
- SWAM AND DRIFTED NEARLY TWO HOURS.
- JUST ABOUT TO TURN IN WHEN CALLED BY C. Q. D.
- ORDERED ON DECK AND TOLD TO GET INTO THE BOATS.
- CHAPTER III. BAND PLAYED TO THE LAST.
- EXPERIENCES OF PASSENGERS IN LIFE-BOATS.
- MR. ISMAY WILL MAKE A COMPLETE STATEMENT.
- WOULD NOT DESERT HER HUSBAND.
- DENIES THAT ANY MEN WERE FIRED UPON.
- SPEED KEPT UP DESPITE WARNINGS.
- ROCKING OVER A VERITABLE SEA OF ICE.
- IN THE GENERAL PANIC CAME THE CRY, “LADIES FIRST.”
- FALSE REPORT OF PASSENGERS BEING SHOT.
- WARNING TOO LATE TO AVOID COLLISION.
- CHAPTER IV. NEGLECT CAUSED DISASTER.
- THE “UNWRITTEN LAW” OF THE SEA.
- THE SHIP HAD STRUCK.
- FIRST BOATS TO GET AWAY.
- WOMEN HELP WITH THE OARS.
- TELEPHONE CALL DOUBTED.
- QUESTIONED ABOUT CONDITIONS ON MOONLESS NIGHT.
- OFFICERS CONFIDENT EVEN IN THE FACE OF DANGER.
- THE CREWS ALLOTTED TO THE BOATS.
- SHIP APPARENTLY BREAKS IN TWO.
- CHAPTER V. BELIEVED SHIP UNSINKABLE.
- MURDOCK SHOOTS HIMSELF.
- COMPARTMENT WALL GIVES WAY.
- INDIVIDUALLY CONFLICTING STORIES OF THE WRECK.
- KEPT TOGETHER BY GREEN LIGHT.
- EVERY HUSBAND SAVED SAVES HIS WIFE.
- UNDER FULL HEAD OF STEAM.
- PHILLIPS POUNDS OUT THE S. O. S.
- THE GAP INCREASES.
- STRAINS OF MUSIC DROWNS ALL CRIES.
- “THE SHIP CANNOT SINK.”
- BRIDE SWEPT OVERBOARD.
- SHIP DISAPPEARS FROM VIEW.
- CHAPTER VI. HOW SURVIVORS ESCAPED.
- MRS. W. J. CARDEZA’S NARRATIVE.
- WELCOMES EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRY.
- AN OFFICER’S COMPLETE ACCOUNT.
- THE CREW TOLD WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THEM.
- IMAGINE THEIR HUSBANDS PICKED BY OTHER VESSELS.
- HENRY E. STENGEL’S STORY.
- DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE HER HUSBAND.
- LITTLE DISORDER ON BOARD.
- PISTOL SHOTS FIRED.
- DID NOT SEE ANY SHOTS FIRED.
- CHAPTER VII. WOMAN’S THRILLING NARRATIVE.
- “GET BACK OR GO OVERBOARD.”
- PICKED UP BY THE CARPATHIA.
- IT WAS LIFE OR DEATH.
- DID NOT ANTICIPATE TROUBLE.
- WARNED TO PULL AWAY FROM SHIP.
- DOES NOT DESERVE CRITICISM.
- CHAPTER VIII. SURVIVORS’ STIRRING STORIES.
- HARROWING AND TERRIBLE.
- LAD PULLED INTO LIFE-BOAT.
- DEAD BODIES OF BRAVE MEN.
- FLOATED FOR FOUR HOURS.
- NEW YORK PHYSICIAN’S ESCAPE.
- TWO DISTINCT SHOCKS.
- OCCUPANTS OF THE SAME BOAT.
- ASSURANCE OF NO IMMEDIATE DANGER.
- WAIFS FROM TITANIC RESTORED TO MOTHER’S ARMS.
- CHAPTER IX. HOW ASTOR WENT TO DEATH.
- TRIED TO CLIMB FROM THE BOAT.
- CAPTAIN SMITH DIED A HERO
- THE SAME STORY REPEATED.
- UTTERLY EXHAUSTED FROM HER EXPERIENCE.
- WRITER GOES DOWN WITH THE SHIP.
- LIFTED INTO A LIFE-BOAT AND KISSED.
- HELPED WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
- SENDS A MESSAGE TO HIS MOTHER.
- MIGHT HAVE PERISHED.
- SHIP GOES DOWN AT 2.30 O’CLOCK.
- BUMPED INTO FLOATING BODIES.
- CHAPTER X. NOTABLE WOMAN SAVED.
- VESSEL LISTS TO PORT.
- MR. WIDENER PARTED FROM HIS WIFE.
- PICKED UP BY CARPATHIA.
- APPEALS TO CAPTAIN WERE IGNORED.
- HELPS HIS WIFE TO A PLACE IN THE BOAT.
- DIED TO SAVE WIFE’S MAID.
- TOO OVERCOME TO BE QUESTIONED.
- NOT AS MUCH SUCTION AS EXPECTED.
- STAYED ON BOARD UNTIL SHE SANK.
- MET AT THE CUNARD PIER.
- CHAPTER XI. MAJOR BUTT, MARTYR TO DUTY.
- JUMPED AS THE LINER WAS GOING DOWN.
- “FRANKFURT” MUCH NEARER THAN CARPATHIA.
- THE CRIES WERE HEART-RENDING.
- CRAWLED ON TO CAKE OF ICE.
- GRAVITY OF THE TITANIC’S CONDITION.
- AS COOL AS THE ICEBERG.
- MAJOR BUTT A MAN TO BE FEARED.
- TOGETHER ALMOST TO THE END.
- CHAPTER XII. MRS. ASTOR’S BRAVERY.
- WHIMPERING WITH COLD.
- TITANIC GOING DOWN TO HER DOOM.
- THE FIRST STAMPEDE.
- EMERGENCY BOATS MADE READY.
- BETTER PUT ON LIFE PRESERVERS.
- EIGHT MEN THROWN OVERBOARD.
- SWAM THROUGH THE ICE.
- DR. LEEDER’S LETTER.
- CHAPTER XIII. LIFEBOATS BUNGLINGLY HANDLED.
- LIFEBOAT BEGINS TO FILL.
- WOULD NOT BE SEPARATED.
- ORDERED TO PULL FOR THE LIGHT.
- FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
- COULD ALMOST FEEL THE WATER RUSHING IN.
- BOAT HALF UNDER WATER.
- THERE WERE TWO EXPLOSIONS.
- PACKED LIKE SARDINES IN THE BOAT.
- DISCIPLINE WAS PERFECT.
- MRS. PAUL SCHABERT’S STORY.
- CHAPTER XIV. NOT LIKE BOURGOGNE DISASTER.
- WENT DOWN OFF SABLE ISLAND.
- THERE WAS NOTHING TO FEAR.
- EVERYONE FIGHTING EVERYONE ELSE.
- NEARLY AN HOUR BEFORE RELIEF CAME.
- SCENE THAT HARDY WITNESSED.
- DID NOT THINK IT SERIOUS.
- IT WAS APPALLING.
- MAJOR BUTT AN OFFICER OF THE TITANIC.
- NO CHANCE OF ESCAPING.
- THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT.
- EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF.
- KEPT AFLOAT BY FUR OVERCOAT.
- UNJUST TO MR. ISMAY.
- WATER POURING INTO THE SHIP.
- THE CARPATHIA SIGHTED.
- CHAPTER XV. BOY’S DESPERATE FIGHT FOR LIFE.
- FATHER LOST SIGHT OF FOREVER.
- SAYS GOOD-BYE TO EACH OTHER.
- SANG A HYMN AND SAID THE LORD’S PRAYER.
- TOOK CARE OF HIM IN THE LIFEBOAT.
- THE LAST BOY SAW OF PAPA.
- WAS HURRIED INTO A BOAT.
- SHIP TAKES ITS FINAL PLUNGE.
- THE LAST PASSENGERS ON TOP DECK.
- BLOWN TO SAFETY BY EXPLOSION.
- CHAPTER XVI. CARPATHIA TO THE RESCUE.
- PROMPT IN RESCUE WORK.
- THE MAJORITY OF THE WOMEN LOSE THEIR HUSBANDS.
- LIKE A FUNERAL SHIP.
- CARPATHIA’S WELCOME RETURN.
- CHAPTER XVII. REFUSED TO LEAVE HUSBAND.
- CLASPED IN EACH OTHERS ARMS.
- CAPTAIN KEEPS EVERY BODY IN GOOD SPIRITS.
- ALL THE MEN ACTED CALMLY AND CHEERFULLY.
- MAD WITH EXPOSURE.
- HAD NO IDEA THE SHIP WAS SINKING.
- HAD HOPED ALL ON BOARD WOULD BE SAVED.
- “THE MILLIONAIRES BOAT.”
- CONTINUALLY BUMPED INTO DEAD BODIES.
- SHIP’S END ONLY A QUESTION OF MINUTES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. LADY DUFF-GORDON’S EXPERIENCES.
- CRUISED AMONG ICE FOR TWO HOURS.
- AN AWFUL CHORUS OF SHRIEKS.
- FIFTEEN BRIDES LOSE THEIR HUSBANDS.
- A SEAMAN’S NARRATIVE.
- TITANIC SETTLES IN THE WATER.
- SUFFERED FROM EXPOSURE.
- A MAN WITH A HIGH SENSE OF DUTY.
- A MOTHER’S FATEFUL DREAM.
- THE BOAT’S MUSICIANS.
- DISCIPLINE DESCRIBED AS PERFECT.
- A CLEAR S. O. S. SIGNAL.
- PROMPTNESS IN HANDLING LIFEBOATS.
- AVOIDS CRASHING INTO SHIPWRECKED PASSENGERS.
- A NARRATIVE ON THE TUG BOAT REYNOLDS.
- SPEEDED FASTER THAN USUAL.
- NEARLY ALL BOATS TAKEN FROM WATER.
- COMPARATIVELY EMPTY BOAT WITHOUT WOMEN.
- CHAPTER XIX. SENATORS HEAR STARTLING STORIES.
- CAPTAIN ROSTROM’S DENIAL.
- ICEBERGS REPORTED.
- MR. ISMAY’S REMARKS.
- NO INDICATIONS OF TITANIC’S BREAKING.
- ICEBERGS ON EVERY SIDE.
- WOMEN AT THE OARS.
- LIFE-SAVING EQUIPMENT INSPECTED.
- DIED AND SLIPPED OFF INTO THE WATER.
- DIFFICULTY IN FINDING WOMEN.
- UNCERTAIN AS TO THE KIND OF WORK.
- SENDING MESSAGES TO THE TITANIC.
- CHAPTER XX. SURVIVING OPERATOR’S EXPERIENCES.
- SENATE TO PROBE FALSE MESSAGE.
- THE LAXITY OF THE WIRELESS
- BOTH CARED FOR A WOMAN
- SENATE REPEATS THE OATH.
- BETTER SEND OUT A CALL FOR ASSISTANCE.
- MEANING OF DIFFERENT CALLS.
- BRIDE INTERROGATED.
- THE LAST MAN ABOARD.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE FUNERAL SHIP AND ITS DEAD.
- THE BODY OF ISADORE STRAUS IDENTIFIED.
- THE UNNAMED DEAD.
- ONLY 106 BODIES PRESERVED.
- A FEW MORE BODIES RECOVERED.
- WATCH FOR MEN WITH CAMERAS.
- THE DEAD LAY EVERYWHERE.
- NOT MR. WIDENER.
- QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY.
- CERTIFICATE FOR THE DEAD.
- OUR JOURNEY SLOW.
- COMMIT HIS BODY TO THE DEEP.
- CHAPTER XXII. INQUIRY BY UNITED STATES SENATE.
- LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS INADEQUATE.
- BOAT CARRIES 58 PERSONS.
- A PUZZLING QUERY.
- PERILS MINIMIZED.
- STEAMING AT 21 KNOTS.
- UNAIDED BY SEA GLASSES.
- MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED BY SEARCHLIGHT.
- UTILITY OF WATER-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS DOUBTED.
- Report Censures Captain of Californian. Says All Passengers Might Have been Saved but for Captain Lord’s Indifference.
- TITANIC COMMITTEE’S REPORT.
- LACK OF DISCIPLINE ARRAIGNED.
- PASSENGERS AND CREW STUPEFIED.
- OVERCONFIDENCE AND NEGLECT.
- MEN RUDELY SILENCED.
- CRITICISM FOR CAPTAIN LORD.
- PRAISE FOR CAPTAIN OF CARPATHIA.
- LIST OF TITANIC PASSENGERS MISSING AND RESCUED
- FIRST CABIN
- SECOND CABIN
- THIRD CLASS—S
- OFFICIAL LIST OF PASSENGERS RESCUED.
- FIRST CABIN
- SECOND CABIN
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