Voyagers of the Titanic (23 page)
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Authors: Richard Davenport-Hines
William Murdoch and Charles Lightoller, first and second officers, looking down at a tender alongside the
Titanic
at Queenstown. When the crisis came, these two men superintended the loading of the lifeboats.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
Captain Smith, photographed from a departing tender at Queenstown. The precipitous drop from the boat deck to the ocean terrified many passengers when the lifeboats were launched.
(The Irish Picture Library/Father FM Browne SJ Collection)
“A half-hour in the gymnasium helped to set one’s blood coursing freely,” said one fitness fiend.
(The Irish Picture Library/Father FM Browne SJ Collection)
The Promenade (or “A”) Deck, from which lifeboat 4 left with its cargo of American millionairesses and Cornish housewives, and from which Hugh Woolner jumped for his life.
(The Irish Picture Library/Father FM Browne SJ Collection)
Second-class passengers sauntering on the boat deck—550 feet long.
(
Irish Examiner
)
Lifeboat 14 towing collapsible lifeboat D (the last lifeboat to be lowered) toward their rescuers on the
Carpathia
. “The rescued came solemnly, dumbly, out of a shivering shadow,” said the
Carpathia
’s captain.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
Crowds outside White Star’s Southampton office, checking lists of survivors and awaiting fresh bulletins. “Women sobbed aloud, while tears glistened in the eyes of rough and hardy sea-faring men.”
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
Bathroom steward Sam Rule, safe back in Plymouth, but mourning the “little lads” who were lift boys and bellboys. He would have bundled them in with the women if he could have.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
Able Seaman Horswill escaped in lifeboat 1. It has been suggested that he and his wife are examining his check from Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
Surviving crew members reach Southampton Docks.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
White Star men attend a memorial service in Southampton.
(Southampton City Council, Arts & Heritage)
A corpse retrieved from the Atlantic by the cable ship
Minia
is prepared for its coffin.
