Lawrence Beesley, a British schoolteacher, was a second-class passenger on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in two and a half hours. This is Beesley's eyewitness account, written just weeks after the sinking, of his voyage on the Titanic , the collision with the iceberg, his hours in Lifeboat 13, and his rescue by the Carpathia . A classic account of the story of Titanic . With 6 pages of photos.