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A faint jolt breaks the comfort of a crossing. Before three hours pass, the Titanic is gone.
In The Truth About the Titanic, Archibald Gracie takes you aboard as a first-class passenger. There is good company at dinner and room to stroll on deck. Then the ship strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and the familiar order of the voyage gives way to danger.
Gracie writes as both a survivor and an amateur historian. He describes what he sees and does, then gathers other survivors’ accounts to help set the facts in order. As passengers reach the lifeboats, there are not enough places for everyone. His purpose is a record fair to the living and the dead.
What you’ll discover
- Comfort before the collision Step into Gracie’s account of dinner-table company, deck promenades, and the crossing before disaster.
- The first uncertain alarm Follow a collision felt as a jar, rather than the violent crash you might expect.
- Choices beside the lifeboats Read about women and children boarding, and men standing aside as the boats fill.
- A witness weighing witnesses See how Gracie brings other survivors’ stories alongside his own search for a fair account.
- Courage amid the tragedy Encounter the disaster through a survivor’s careful attention to what people do under threat.
Who will love it
For readers who love firsthand accounts of the Titanic and plain, careful history, and anyone drawn to survivors’ stories of courage and tragedy at sea.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A survivor writes while memory is fresh
- A comfortable crossing hides growing danger
- A sudden shock starts a slow alarm
- Women and children first, and men who stood aside
- Swept into the sea and saved by an upturned boat
- Rescue, reckoning and the lessons Gracie draws
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La verdad sobre el Titanic
by Archibald Gracie · 1913
On the Titanic, Colonel Archibald Gracie watches too few boats being loaded as lives hang in the balance.
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On the night of 14 April 1912, the liner Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank in under three hours. The disaster claimed 1,490 lives.
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A survivor writes while memory is fresh
Archibald Gracie was a colonel who had written about the American Civil War. His earlier work on the Battle of Chickamauga showed his habit of gathering many witnesses and weighing what they said. He brought the same habit to the Titanic. He was not content to tell only his own story, because one person in one place sees only a small part of a disaster.
So he wrote to other survivors and collected their statements. He drew on the sworn testimony given to the United States Senate inquiry and the British inquiry. He set these against each other where they disagreed. The result is a book that reads in places like a memoir and in places like a report.
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What is The Truth About the Titanic about?
It is Colonel Archibald Gracie's firsthand account of the Titanic's sinking in April 1912. It covers the voyage, the collision, the lifeboats, his escape from the water, the rescue by the Carpathia, and testimony from other survivors.
Is The Truth About the Titanic a true story?
Yes. It is a nonfiction memoir and record written by a survivor, published in 1913. Gracie also gathered statements from other survivors and drew on the American and British inquiries into the disaster.
Who was Archibald Gracie?
He was an American army colonel and amateur historian who travelled first class on the Titanic. He survived by standing on an overturned lifeboat, wrote this book, and died in December 1912, before it was published.
The author
Archibald Gracie
1755–1829 · American Titanic survivor and historian
American businessman.
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