The Burning of the "Volturno" ... With Photogravure and Twenty Other Plates

Arthur Spurgeon

London : Cassell & Co., 1913

[Great Sea Disasters: With Photographs]  Bound in publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards.  Spine-ends and joint frayed. 67 pp.  Sir Arthur Spurgeon wrote wireless dispatches from the Carmania on the disaster at sea of the Volturno.  He provided the first news of the burning of the Volturno with a loss of 136 lives in midatlantic on Oct. 11, 1913.  After a gale created a fire in the cargo hold and subsequent explosion, Most of the victims were women and children who died in lifeboats launched unsuccessfully prior to the arrival of the rescue ships.  All of the life boats either capsized or were smashed by the ship's hull, leaving no one alive from the first boats.