Titanic's Lifeboats: Disaster and Survival During the Great Liner's Sinking

A dramatic retelling of the personal stories of the men, women, and children survivors of the Titanic lifeboats.

Foot by foot Titanic’s lifeboat No.11 slowly jerked its way down the sides of the great ocean liner as it slipped beneath the cold, dark waters of the Atlantic. For the fifty or so men, women and children crammed into the lifeboat, survival was all that mattered. Even then, though, the American fashion designer Edith Rosenbaum Russell ferociously clung to her pig—shaped music box ...