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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.
274
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.

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