Category: Biographies

The Truth about the Titanic

AS the sole survivor of all the men passengers of the _Titanic_ stationed during the loading of six or more lifeboats with women and children on the port side of the ship, forward on the glass-sheltered Deck A, and later on the Boat Deck above, it is my duty to bear testimony...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

AS the sole survivor of all the men passengers of the _Titanic_ stationed during the loading of six or more lifeboats with women and children on the port side of the ship, forwa...

2. book I had loaned him, in which he expressed intense interest. This

book was “The Truth About Chickamauga,” of which I am the author, and it was to gain a much-needed rest after seven years of work thereon, and in order to get it off my mind, th...

3. CHAPTER II

MY stateroom was an outside one on Deck C on the starboard quarter, somewhat abaft amidships. It was No. C, 51. I was enjoying a good night’s rest when I was aroused by a sudden...

4. CHAPTER III

BEFORE I resume the story of my personal escape it is pertinent that I should, at this juncture, discuss certain points wherein the statements of survivors are strangely at vari...

5. CHAPTER IV

I NOW resume the narrative description of my miraculous escape, and it is with considerable diffidence that I do so, for the personal equation monopolizes more attention than ma...

6. CHAPTER V

ALL my companions in shipwreck who made their escape with me on top of the bottom-side-up Engelhardt boat, must recall the anxious moment after the limit was reached when “about...

7. CHAPTER VI

THE previous chapters, describing my personal experience on board the _Titanic_ and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the middle Atlantic, were written some mont...

8. CHAPTER VII

I KNOW of the conditions existing on the port side of the ship from personal knowledge, as set forth in the first five chapters describing my personal experience, while the prev...

9. Chapter VI is derived ...