The destruction of RMS Titanic - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: wrecksinkingofti00ever (find matches)
Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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THE CRADLE IN WHICH THE 3. S. TITANIC WAS BUILT
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CO < HO a tuw w <; O Z O o CO wQ uS WRECK OF THE TITANIC 33 were prepared for the emergency. In the darknessaboard the ship that came shortly after the coUision itwas impossible for those in the boats to distinguish theidentity of any of the persons who leaped into the sea/It is believed that nearly all cabin passengers who hadnot gone overboard immediately after the boats werelaunched vanished with the ofl5cers and crew. HAD TIME TO DRESS Some of the stewards who formed part of the life-boat crew say that after the ship hit the berg the major-ity of the cabin passengers went back to their state-rooms and that it was necessary to rout them out and insome instances force life preservers upon them. Allagree that the engines of the ship were stopped immedi-ately after she had made the ineffectual turn to clear theberg. The lifeboats crews were made up of stewards,stokers, coal trimmers, and ordinary seamen. It is saidthat the davits were equipped with a new contrivancefor the swift