Titanic (37 page)

Chapter Thirteen

“Even through my numbness . . .”: Winocour 354.

“Knowing that the
Titanic
 . . .”: Senate Inquiry, Day 1, AHR027.

“I went full speed . . .”: ibid. AHR094.

Captain Arthur Rostron’s preparations: ibid.

“Engine room full up to the boilers”: Eaton and Haas 178.

“Between 2:45 and 4 o’clock . . .”: Senate Inquiry, Day 1.

The
Carpathia
’s speed and course: Dave Gittens, “The Carpathia Legend,” 22 May 2009,
All at Sea with Dave Gittens.

“The
Carpathia
, waiting for . . .”: Thayer 353.

“For us . . .”: ibid.

“. . . on our starboard side . . .”: Gracie 106–107.

“‘Come over and take us off . . .’”: ibid. 107.

“‘Aye, Aye, sir’”: ibid.

“It took them ages . . .”: Thayer 354.

“Lightoller remained . . .”: Gracie 107–108.

“Sea and wind were rising . . .”: Winocour 302.

“All night long I had heard . . .”: Gracie 258–260.

“It seemed to me . . .”: ibid. 111.

“Now to get her safely alongside!”: Winocour 302.

“All along the side . . .”: Gracie 111.

“All my wet clothing . . .”: ibid. 112.

“I was all the time . . .”: ibid. 76.

“I was sore to the touch . . .”: ibid. 77.

“It was now about . . .”: Winocour 354–355.

“It was the first drink . . .”: ibid. 355.

“one big heartache . . .”: ibid.

“The passengers and crew . . .”: ibid. 355–356.

“We could only rush . . .”: Hyslop et al. 138.

“By the time . . .”: Kuntz 28.

“a short prayer of thankfulness . . .”: Senate Inquiry, Day 1.

“After that . . .”: Winocour 319.

“Whenever I started . . .”: ibid.

“On the afternoon of Tuesday. . .”: ibid. 80.

“. . . she asked the men . . .”: Goldsmith 25.

“all over the ship . . .”: ibid. 26.

“Then it all came back to me . . .”: ibid.

“I have never seen . . .”: Thayer 356.

“What kindness was there . . .”: Winocour 303.

“For our dear Tommy Andrews . . .”: Jessop 139.

“But there was little . . .”: ibid. 140.

“Sir . . .”: Winocour 81.

“First . . .”: ibid. 81–82.

Chapter Fourteen

“The final docking . . .”: ibid. 356.

Word of the disaster: Eaton and Haas 181.

Souvenirs: ibid. 194–197.

“My life-belt . . .”: Gracie 108–109.

“I think we all realized . . .”: Winocour 83–84.

“I am glad to say . . .”: Barratt 113.

“In the dusk of evening . . .”: Jessop 140–141.

“Brooklyn, New York . . .”: Hyslop et al. 284.

“I read by the papers . . .”: Bracken, Robert, “The Mystery of Rhoda Abbott,” ET Research, June 7, 2004.

“investigate the causes . . .”: Kuntz xvii.

British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry: Final Report.

“As the sole survivor . . .”: Gracie 1.

“The events of the night . . .”: “Col. Gracie Dies, Haunted by
Titanic
,”
New York Times,
December 5, 1912.

“To my mind . . .”: Thayer 330.

Epilogue

“Finding
Titanic
 . . .”: LaRoe, Lisa Moore,
Titanic: Collector’s Edition
(Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1999. ) 15.

“images of twisted railing . . .”: ibid. 13.

“Then it hit us . . .”: ibid.

“the stern section . . .”: ibid.

“Before leaving the wreck . . .”: ibid. 15.

Survivor Letters from the
Carpathia

“On the waves . . .”: Behe 136–137.

“On board the
Carpathia
 . . .”: Behe 164.

“Dear Mother . . .”: Behe 151.

“Our ship struck an iceberg . . .”: Behe 146.

“Wednesday,
Carpathia
 . . .”: Behe 151–152.

Titanic
Facts and Figures

Bodies recovered: Courtesy of Bill Wormstedt. To learn more about the recovery of victims, go to “An Analysis of the Bodies Recovered from the
Titanic,” Bill Wormstedt’s Titanic, 22 October 2000.

Cover:
Titanic
painting by Ken Marschall.

Frontispiece (Postcard oilette of the
Titanic
): The Art Archive/Ocean Memorabilia Collection.

Title Page (Funnels on a White Star Line ship): North Wind Picture Archives.

Second Frontispiece (Copy of the last message sent from the
Titanic
, which tells of passengers being put into lifeboats after the ship hit an iceberg): Popperfoto/Getty Images.

Dedication (
Titanic
in port): Topham/The Image Works.

Foreword: Wreck of the
Titanic
, Walt Disney/courtesy Everett Collection.

Diagram: Diagram of ship, © The Mariners’ Museum/Corbis

Chapter One

Chapter Frontispiece: Boarding the
Titanic
, Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Image 1 (J. Bruce Ismay and William James Pirrie): National Museums Northern Ireland.

Image 2 (
Titanic
in dry dock): Library of Congress.

Image 3 (Propellers): ibid.

Image 4 (Captain Edward John Smith): Mary Evans Picture Library/Onslow Auctions/The Image Works.

Image 5 (Early photograph of
Titanic
’s Café Parisien): Ulster Folk & Transport Museum.

Image 6 (Thomas Andrews): National Museums Northern Ireland.

Image 7 (
Titanic
leaving Southampton, England): Mary Evans Picture Library/Onslow Auctions/The Image Works.

Image 8 (Frank Browne’s passage ticket): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Chapter Two

Chapter Frontispiece (Promenade Deck): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Image 1 (Stationary bicycles in the gymnasium): Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works.

Image 2 (
Titanic
’s gymnasium): akg-images/Universal Images Group/The Image Works.

Image 3 (Interior: bed of a luxury cabin): akg-images/Newscom.

Image 4 (Father Browne’s stateroom): Universal Images Group/Contributor/Getty Images.

Image 5 (Second class deck): John Reavenall/Newscom.

Image 6 (Grand staircase): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Image 7 (Illustration of the first class dining room): SSPL via Getty Images.

Image 8 (First class dinner menu): The Granger Collection.

Image 9 (Funnels on a White Star Line ship): North Wind Picture Archives.

Image 10 (Promenade Deck): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Chapter Three

Chapter Frontispiece (Reading room): Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works.

Image 1 (Swimming pool): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Image 2 (First class dining room): ibid.

Image 3 (Harold Bride): Getty Images.

Chapter Four

Chapter Frontispiece (Iceberg in the distance): Library of Congress.

Image 1 (Radio telegram): Matthew Cavanaugh/AP Photo.

Chapter Five

Chapter Frontispiece (Chronometer from the bridge of the
Titanic
): Alastair Grant/AP Photo.

Image 1 (Wireless operator): Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy.

Image 2 (Iceberg, 1912): TopFoto/The Image Works.

Image 3 (The
Olympic
Wheelhouse): Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

Chapter Six

Chapter Frontispiece (Distress telegram): Public Record Office/HIP/The Image Works.

Chapter Seven

Chapter Frontispiece (Life preserver): Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Image 1 (Diagram of nearby ships): National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Chapter Eight

Chapter Frontispiece

Chapter Frontispiece (Women and children boarding a lifeboat): Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works.

Image 1 (Photo of the lifeboats taken by Father Browne): Bettmann/Corbis.

Chapter Nine

Chapter Frontispiece (Lifeboats): the Illustrated London News Picture Library/The Bridgeman Art Library.

Image 1: Map of voyage by Heather Saunders.

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Chapter Ten

Chapter Frontispiece (Illustration of the
Titanic
): Getty Images.

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Frontispiece (
Titanic
sinking): Popperfoto/Getty Images.

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Frontispiece (Lifeboat Collapsible B): Phillyseaport.org.

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Frontispiece (Survivors en route to the
Carpathia
): Getty Images.

Image 1 (Captain Arthur H. Rostron): Library of Congress.

Image 2 (Rope ladder between the
Carpathia
and lifeboat): Roger–Viollet/The Image Works.

Image 3 (
Titanic
survivors): Library of Congress.

Image 4 (More survivors): Getty Images.

Image 5 (Survivor’s Marconi telegraph message): PA/Topham/The Image Works.

Image 6 (
Titanic
survivors): Library of Congress.

Image 7 (List of the dead): Public Record Office/HIP/The Image Works.

Image 8 (
Titanic
lifeboats on deck of the
Carpathia
): North Wind Picture Archives.

Image 9 (Crewmembers in life jackets): The Print Collector/Heritage–Images/The Image Works.

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Frontispiece (Crowd outside the White Star Line offices in London, England): Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works.

Image 1 (
New York Times
headline): Getty Images.

Image 2 (
New York American
bulletin board): Stapleton Historical Collection/HIP/The Image Works.

Image 3 (Crowd outside the White Star Line offices in New York City): akg-images/The Image Works.

Image 4 (Newspaper boy): Print Collector/HIP/The Image Works.

Image 5 (Harold Bride with injured feet): Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works.

Image 6 (U.S. Senate Investigating Committee): Library of Congress.

Image 7 (Surviving crew members): Getty Images.

Epilogue

Chapter Frontispiece (Dr. Robert Ballard): AP Photo/Mike Kullen.

Image 1 (Bow of the wrecked
Titanic
): AP Photo.