... resulting in the death of 204 officers and eailors. In February 141 lives were lost in a great factory fire in New York, and at Trieste, in June, a tidal wave sunk several ships and claimed over 100 victime. In Britain, there were, fortunately, no disasters ...

... difficulty she got up near the anchorage place, where she let go an anchor—she bad only one left, the other two having becn lost before—but it did not hold her long, and she commenced to drive to lee. With all promptitade, a haddeck boat was launched at ...

... said ; “and you--we are both of us very young. !‘o“ and ¢ ‘“‘.pe;“*;.“ ,',‘; . °°fd°'f‘t:’ rdme'(i Sir Ral; h almost lost self-control, and as he Are you rure you want this very much 7 ‘olB:ift:‘; s Sir Ralph,” he said, at de ciushed hor to him ...

... steamer, would be greater than the streagth of the line, which would consequently break, and rope, harpoon, and whale would be lost. If the whale is not dead cn the spot, the gunner has to play it, in a very cmniias manner to that of the angler who has heoied ...

... ELECTRICALLY LOCALISED from the cable-test'ng hut, and a ship sent out to the euppcsed position to grapple for the line, %l it up, and effect the neceesary repairs. hen the cable hae really been hooked and picked up—an operation which may entail ecveral ...

... loving souls of women on board also, who refused to leave the ship unless their husbands could come along with them. And then, just before the great floating palace made her final plunge, the ship’s band came on deck and played ** Nearer ‘my God to Thee.” ...

... gradually settling down the icy water renched her boilers and caused them to explode, thus splitting the ship in the middle and sending her to the bottom. The ship, say the sarvivors, was going 21 knots at the time of the collision with the iceberg, in accordance ...

... bave both gone down with the ship, and, if there were error in any way (and we do net insinnate there was), they have paid the bighest price any man can offer—they have given their lives. The Titanic was the kirgest ship in the world, and she had the ...

... LOSS OF THE TITANIC. Account of the Disaster. 1635 LIVES LOST. THE CAPTAIN'S HEROISM. HEARTRENDING SCENES. VESSEL'S SPEED 21 KNOTS. Avrurxric particulars sre at last to band of the disaster to the Titanie. v*{\' total number of sarvivors is 705, making ...

... THE LOST TITANIC. WITNESSES FROM CALIFORNIAN. WARNINGS OF IICE. The most interesting part of the evidence given on Friday at the United States inquiry, held at Washington, inlo the loss of the Titanic was that of wiinesses from the Californian. The wireless ...

... would ask the Council 0 record u vote of condblence to the widows and arphans of the crew and passengers lost in the biggest disaster in the shipping world so far. He need hardly state tiat the whole of Shetland was particularly appalled at the disaster ...

... be constructed on ‘sny part of the ship's deck (preferably aft), and ‘would serve all the purposes of an ordinary cabin, ‘being fitted up and supplied with stores and pro‘visionl in the usual way. In cases of ships sinking, the whole cabin is instantaneously ...