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"Have you seen my husband?" she shrieked at me appealingly. I had not, and could only advise her to remain there on the port side, to which I had in the meantime gone, as the port boats would soon be swung over and sent off. I myself now made for the funnel deck and climbed up a ladder to what I thought was likely to be the safest eminence in the rapidly foundering ship. I crossed over to the starboard side again, and on my way encountered the two Marconi operators in the emergency wireless room. They, too, were coolness personified. I learned from them that the explosion had put the main wireless room out of action. It also put out every electric light in the ship. The Lusitania's inside compartments were now in complete darkness. The wireless sent out their "S O S," altho the vessel was already listing heavily to starboard. The operators had great apprehension that even the emergency apparatus would break down because the list seriously interfered with the antennae. They scarcely got their first reply to the signal of distress when the expected followed and their emergency installation collapsed. Finding that he could do no more the young operator, superbly humored and careless of what looked like sure disaster for us all, took up a kneeling position on the funnel deck in order to make snapshots of the Lusitania settling to its doom. The "snap" was probably the only one attempted in the whole ship, but it did not come off. A further lurch of the boat upset him and his plans, for the last glimpse I had of him was astride a chair in which he said that he was going "to sit down and swim." NE of the first boats lowered away was empty. It was very hard to get it down properly, owing to the angle of the vessel. Two boats were presently launched from the port side and were the bestmanned boats sent off from the vessel. Nowhere, as far as I could observe, was there anything but the utmost readiness, self-sacrifice and coolness; but men can only work to the extent of their physical powers. The glorious old cry of the sea, "Women and children first," was the unvarying rule on the Lusitania. Some man, whom I assumed to be an alien steerage passenger, was the only person to attempt to violate it by trying to clamber into the boat before his turn and before the adjacent women and children were accommodated. A seaman threatened him with an axe, and he retired. Later he succeeded in getting into the bow. Under the circumstances, realizing that I should soon have to battle for life, I proceeded to divest myself of all unnecessary overweight, such as coat, waistcoat, and collar and tie. I cannot swim a yard, and the prospects were fairly unnerving. The angle of our list was now SO acute that I could no longer stand and had to cling. Then I climbed down a ladder, leading on to the boat deck. As it was awash, I had no choice, but let myself be swept into the water, hanging on as best I could to some davits. One boat near was just being let down head foremost and it was smashed. A moment later I contrived to clamber into a boat, which, tho badly waterlogged, was carrying a good many people, probably forty or fifty. Certainly not more than fifteen minutes, or eighteen at the outside, had now ensued since the torpedo impact, and the Lusitania was gone. Above the spot where she had been serenely afloat less than twenty minutes before was nothing but a nondescript mass of floating wreckage. E VERYWHERE one looked, a sea of waving hands and arms, belonging to struggling men and frantic women and children in agonizing efforts to keep afloat. That was the most horrible memory and sight of all. 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