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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ow that we could not tell exactlywhether it was being carried or not, for we were in aclosed cabin and we could not hear the crackle of thewireless at the mast. Phillips kept on sending, however,while I buckled on his life belt and put on my own.Then we both cared for a woman who had fainted andwho had been brought into our cabin. Then, about ten minutes before the ship sankjCaptain Smith gave word for every one to look to hisown safety. I sprang to aid the men struggling tolaunch the life raft, and we had succeeded in getting itto the edge of the boat when a giant wave carried itaway. I went with it and found mys^^f underneath. WRECK OF THE TITANIC 271 Struggling through an eternity, I finally emerged andwas swimming 150 feet from the Titanic when it wentdown. I felt no suction as the vessel plunged. Captain Smith stuck to the bridge, and, turning, Isaw him jump just as the vessel glided into the depths.He had not donned a life belt, so far as I could see, andwent down with the ship.
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—Detroit NetosEverything fob Enjoying Life, But Not Much to Save It CHAPTER XXXITHE INVESTIGATION IN WASHINGTON Help Near at Hand^ Ignored Distress Call and IsMAY^s Attempts to Get Back to EnglandShown In the Senate investigating committee, April 22^Fourth Officer Boxall made a startling jevelation inregard to a ship close at hand at the time of the wreckwhich ignored all the Titanic^s signals. Also, inresponse to Senator Smiths questions he gave someevidence about the lifeboats. Boxall said they hadhad a lifeboat drill before sailing in the presence ofinspectors from the board of trade, in which only twoboats on the same side of the ship were lowered. Hedeclared that under the weather conditions at the timeof the collision, the lifeboats were supposed to carrysixty-five persons. He said, too, that in accordance withthe British board of trade regulations, the boats con-tained water breakers, water dippers, bread, bailers,masts, sails, lights and supplies of oil when the Titanicleft

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