The Truth About the Titanic
From The Observatory
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Editor’s Note
A survivor’s perspective on what it was like to be on the Titanic as it sank, with detailed accountings of his and other passengers’ accounts.
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Frontmatter
THE TRUTH
ABOUT THE TITANIC
BY
COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE
AUTHOR OF
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHICKAMAUGA
SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1913
Copyright 1913 by
Mitchell Kennerley
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company
East Twenty-fourth Street
New York
Contents
- Chapter 1: The Last Day Aboard Ship
- Chapter 2: Struck by an Iceberg
- Chapter 3: The Foundering of the “Titanic”
- Chapter 4: Struggling in the Water for Life
- Chapter 5: All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat
- Chapter 6: The Port Side: Women and Children First
- Chapter 7: Starboard Side: Women First, But Men When There Were No Women
- Concluding Note
- Project Gutenberg Transcriber’s Notes
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Colonel Archibald Gracie | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| The Titanic | 2[1] |
| The Promenade Deck of the Titanic | 12 |
| Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus | 24 |
| First-Class Smoking Room | 28 |
| Bedroom of Parlor Suite | 40 |
| Suite Bedroom | 40 |
| James Clinch Smith | 48 |
| Boilers of the Titanic arranged in Messrs. Harland & Wolff’s Works | 52 |
| Thomas Andrews, Jr., Designer of the Titanic | 58 |
| Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer | 58 |
| The Last Photograph of the Titanic’s Commander and Three Officers | 60 |
| Passengers of the Olympic awaiting Events | 104 |
| The Overturned Engelhardt Boat B | 110 |
| The Titanic narrowly Escapes Collision at Southampton | 134 |
| Fifth Officer Lowe Towing the Canvas Collapsible | 158 |
| The Canvas Collapsible | 158 |
| Captain Rostron of the S. S. Carpathia | 180 |
| Photographed from the Carpathia | 242 |
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