Titanic

by Filson Young

The twin gray horses are still at their work in Belfast Lough, and on any summer morning you may see their white manes shining like gold as they escort you in from the sunrise and the open sea to where the smoke rises and the din resounds.

For the iron forest has branched again, and its dreadful groves are echoing anew to the clamour of the hammers and the drills. Another ship, greater and stronger even than the lost one, is rising within the cathedral scaffoldings; and the men who build her, companions of those whom the Titanic spilled into the sea, speak among themselves and say, “this time we shall prevail.”

May 1912.

A TABLE
SHOWING THE LOSS OF LIFE ON THE TITANIC

First Class
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	173	58	115	34
Women	144	139	5	97
Children	5	5	0	100
Total	322	202	120	63
Second Class
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	160	13	147	8
Women	93	78	15	84
Children	24	24	0	100
Total	277	115	162	42
Third Class
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	454	55	399	12
Women	179	98	81	55
Children	76	23	53	30
Total	709	176	533	25
Total Passengers
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	787	126	661	16
Women	416	315	101	76
Children	105	52	53	49
Total	1308	493	815	38
Crew
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	875	189	686	22
Women	23	21	2	91
Total	898	210	688	23
Total Passengers and Crew
Per cent.
	Carried.	Saved.	Lost.	saved.
Men	1662	315	1347	19
Women	439	336	103	77
Children	105	52	53	49
Total	2206	703	1503	32

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND
THE NEW WORLD OF HIS DISCOVERY.

With Frontispiece in colour by Norman Wilkinson. Portrait, Maps, Illustrations, Appendices and a Note on the Navigation of Columbus’s First Voyage by the Earl of Dunraven, K.P. Large Post 8vo, cloth, gilt. 7s. 6d. net. (Third Edition.)

Mr. Henry Vignaud, late Secretary of the American Embassy and distinguished historian of Columbus, says: