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The Loss of the S. S. Titanic |
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This is a 1st hand account written by a survivor of the Titanic about that fateful night and the events leading up to it as well as the events that followed its sinking. THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC ITS STORY AND ITS LESSONS BY LAWRENCE BEESLEY B. A. ( Cantab .) Scholar of Gonville and Caius College ONE OF THE SURVIVORS PREFACE The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and Hon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well known lawyers in Boston. After luncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the survivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia. When I had done so, Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, the editor of the Boston Herald , urged me as a matter of public interest to write a correct history of the Titanic disaster, his reason being that he knew several publications were in preparation by people who had not been present at the disaster, but from newspaper accounts were piecing together a description of it... Continue reading book >>
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