Chapter I: Front Matter

THE TRUTH
ABOUT THE TITANIC

BY
COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE

AUTHOR OF
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHICKAMAUGA

SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1913

_Copyright 1913 by_
_Mitchell Kennerley_

_Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company_
_East Twenty-fourth Street_
_New York_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Last Day Aboard Ship 1

II. Struck By an Iceberg 14

III. The Foundering of the “Titanic” 51

IV. Struggling in the Water for Life 64

V. All Night on Bottom of Half-Submerged Upturned Boat 87

VI. The Port Side: Women and Children First 114

VII. Starboard Side: Women First, But Men When There
Were No Women 225

Concluding Note 325

ILLUSTRATIONS

Colonel Archibald Gracie _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
The _Titanic_ 2

The Promenade Deck of the _Titanic_ 12

Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus 24

First-Class Smoking Room 28

Bedroom of Parlor Suite 40

Suite Bedroom 40

James Clinch Smith 48

Boilers of the _Titanic_ arranged in Messrs. Harland
& Wolff’s Works 52

Thomas Andrews, Jr., Designer of the _Titanic_ 58

Joseph Bell, Chief Engineer 58

The Last Photograph of the _Titanic’s_ Commander and
Three Officers 60

Passengers of the _Olympic_ awaiting Events 104

The Overturned Engelhardt Boat B 110

The _Titanic_ narrowly Escapes Collision at Southampton 134

Fifth Officer Lowe Towing the Canvas Collapsible 158

The Canvas Collapsible 158

Captain Rostron of the S. S. _Carpathia_ 180

Photographed from the _Carpathia_ 242

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE “TITANIC”