How to Survive the Titanic

⁹ Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor (Sutton Books, 2007), pp. 152– 3.

¹⁰ Lawrence Beesley, ‘The Loss of the SS Titanic , in Winocour, ed., The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors, p. 41.

¹¹ Gracie, ‘The Truth About the Titanic , in ibid., p. 150.

¹² Commander Lightoller, ’Titanic, in ibid., p. 278.

¹³ Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, translated by M. A. Screech (Penguin, 2006), pp. 829–30.

¹⁴ LMQ/7/2/19.

¹⁵ LMQ/7/3/B.

¹⁶ Daily Telegraph, 22 April 1912.

¹⁷ LMQ/7/1/15.

Chapter 2: Luckless Yamsi

¹ US Senate Inquiry Proceedings, testimony by Captain Rostron.

² Marconigram sent from the Olympic to the Carpathia.

³ The Times, 20 April 1912.

⁴ Atlantic City Daily Press, 5 May 1912.

⁵ US Senate Inquiry proceedings.

⁶ Daily Telegraph, 21 April 1912.

⁷ TRNISM/3/1.

⁸ John B. Thayer, Evening Bulletin, Thursday 14 April 1932.

⁹ Lawrence Beesley, ‘The Loss of the SS Titanic, p. 19.

¹⁰ Ibid., p. 30.

¹¹ Ibid., p. 9.

¹² Ibid., p. 44.

¹³ Ibid., p. 43.

¹⁴ Ibid., p. 42.

¹⁵ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim: A Tale, edited with an introduction by Alan H. Simmons, with Notes and Glossary by J. H. Stape (Penguin Classic, 2007), p. 19. All subsequent quotations from Lord Jim come from this edition.

¹⁶ Beesley, ‘The Loss of the SS Titanic , p. 32.

¹⁷ Lord Jim, p. 17.

¹⁸ Lightoller, ‘Titanic’, p. 296.

¹⁹ Unsigned manuscript dated August 1926. I am grateful to Angus Cheape for drawing my attention to this document.

²⁰ US Senate Inquiry Proceedings, testimony by Lightoller, 19 April 1912.

²¹ Thayer, The Sinking of the SS Titanic, p. 30.

²² Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 279.

²³ British Inquiry Proceedings, testimony by Alexander Carlisle, Question 2i284.

²⁴ Washington Times, 17 April 1912.

²⁵ Lightoller, ’Titanic’, p. 275.

²⁶ Washington Times, 17 April 1912.

²⁷ Ibid.

²⁸ Ibid.

²⁹ Speech by Senator William Alden Smith, US Senate Inquiry Report, 28 May 1912.

³⁰ LMQ/7/2/37.

³¹ The bogus messages may have been the result of an eavesdropping amateur wireless operator picking up Marconigrams on two different subjects and combining them. ‘Is the Titanic safe?’ and ’Asian 300 miles west of Titanic and towing oil tanker to Halifax’ became ‘All Titanic passengers safe — towing to Halifax’.

³² US Senate Inquiry Proceedings.

³³ I bid.

³⁴ Wyn Craig Wade, The Titanic: End of a Dream (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1980), p. 97.

³⁵ LMQ/7/i/i5.

³⁶ LMQ/7/2/22.

³⁷ Beesley, ‘The Loss of the SS Titanic, p. 58.

³⁸ Ibid., pp. 8i–2.

³⁹ Ibid., p. 82.

⁴⁰ US Senate Inquiry Report, 28 May 1912.

⁴¹ Account by Edith Russell, LMQ/7/2/i9.

Chapter 3: Youth

¹ TRNISM/7/4.

² Bram Stoker, ‘The World’s Greatest Shipbuilding Yard’, The World’s Work, Vol IX, March 1907, p. 360.

³ Jules Verne, A Floating City (Routledge, 1876), p. 12.

⁴ R. A. Fletcher, Travelling Palaces: Luxury in Passenger Steamships (Pitman and Sons, 1913), p. 30.

⁵ Letter from James Ismay to his father, TRNISM/10/1.

⁶ TRNISM/4/1.

⁷ TRNISM/10/1.

⁸ Dudley Parker, The Man of Principle: A View of John Galsworthy (Heinemann, 1963), p. 36.

⁹ Catherine Dupre, John Galsworthy: A Biography (Collins, 1976), p. 43.

¹⁰ John Eddison, A History of Elstree School (1979), p. 49.

¹¹ Quoted in Mark Girouard, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman (Yale University Press, 1981), p. 13.

¹² John Galsworthy, Another Sheaf (New York, 1919), p. 92.

¹³ See Peter Parker, The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos (Constable, 1987).

¹⁴ Wilton Joseph Oldham, The Ismay Line: The White Star Line and the Ismay Family Story (Journal of Commerce, 1961), p. 42.

¹⁵ John Galsworthy, The Country House (Heinemann, 1907), p. 58.

¹⁶ Horace Annesley Vachell, The Hill: A Romance of Friendship (John Murray, 1905), pp. 24–89.

¹⁷ Oldham, The Ismay Line, p. xxvii.

¹⁸ Thomas Ismay can be compared to the media tycoon, Robert Maxwell, another self-made