Except for the boats beside ship and icebergs sea was strangely empty. Hardly a bit of wreckage floated ? just deck chair or two few life belts good deal cork. Striking water like thousand knives being driven into one’s body. The temperature 28 degrees four degrees below freezing. sounds people drowning are something that I can not describe to you neither anyone else. Its most dreadful sound there is terrible silence follows it. saw first lifeboat lowered. Thirteen were on board eleven men two women. swam around about half an hour swimming my back when Titanic went down. tried get aboard boat but some chap hit me over head with oar. There too many in her. got other side boat climbed in. It hardly bears thinking if had been sufficient night…every soul could have saved since it two-and-a-half hours after she struck tilted her massive stern heavens sank by head taking all unprovided for.