the loss of the SS titanic - Sinking of the Titanic THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC ITS STORY AND ITS LESSONS BY LAWRENCE BEESLEY B. A. (_Cantab_.) Scholar of Gonville and Caius College ONE OF THE SURVIVORS PREFACE The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and Hon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well-known lawyers in Boston. After luncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the survivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia.