"TITANIC" ENGINEERING STAFF MEMORIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1702, 19 March 1913, Page 5

"TITANIC" ENGINEERING STAFF MEMORIAL.

The progress of this fund is shown by the following figures, which have been kindly supplied to us by the lion, secretary of.the committees:— i s. d. Institute of Marine Engineers, London, up to February. 23 2G02 1-1 0. Southampton Committee (for the erection of a monument in Southampton) up to February 23 16G0 0 0 Liverpool (for the ■ erection uf a monument in Liverpool) up to February 23 5177 18 i Total 9UO 12 4 Lord Justice Kennedy, who was in his day senior classic at Cambridge, and who has always taken a . deep interest in everything concerning our mercantile marine, has written a beautiful set of Latin elegiacs, which are to be placed on tho monument to the. engine-room heroes of the Titanic at Liverpool. The Latin runs as follows:— In memoriam duoruin et 'triginta .artificum nauticorum qui, quum navis, . in qua.marb Atlanticum navigabant, massae glaciali collisa, iluctibus mergebatur, tideliter usque ad linem .laborantes, suo exitio aliis salutein praestiterunt. JS'ox erat; icta latus curusque jacebat adempto Navis, Atiantei dum maris alta secat, . Quam subito iii tenebris moles glacialis cuiitem

Laeserat; in vulnus prora bibebat aquas. Coilfugit ad lintres vectorum turba; pudori Cui foret in tali clade petita salus? His aliter visum est. Periturae navis in ima _ . \ .• Parte sum impavidus quisquo laborat opus. Ante oculos letum est. Tamcn baud deterret imago, Ne'fide nianeant in stationo viros. Ossa tegit pelagus; nullo mergitur-in aevo, /Gloria pro.sociis sic voluisse mori. And the translation is also by Sir William Kennedy:— "A tribute to the memory of thirty-two marine engineers, serving on board the It.M.S. Titanic on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, who whilst their ship, struck by an iceberg, during tho night of April-14. 1912, was sinking, worked gallantly to the end, and went down .with her, willing to sacrifice their own lives in order that othere might be saved." "l'was night; with riven hull, the ice- . berg's prey, Their giant ship inert and helpless lay; Her prow sinks slowly to tho sea's em-

brace, From hold to hold invading waters race, Passes to lowered boats a parting crowd Well might such sceno tho boldest heart have cowed! But these it nioved not. •At his post below Each stood and toiled. They marked tho ceaseless flowThat drowned tho fires, brought Death. But duty callcd, And they met Death in darkness unappalled." —'W.11.K., in "The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect."