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Titanic Victims Starved

Orange County Times-Press

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That several Titanic victims probably starved to death in lifeboats seemed probable when the White Star Liner Oceanic docked today.

The Oceanic picked up, last Monday, a lifeboat containing three bodies terribly decomposed.

Each victim had pieces of cork in his mouth indicating that they had tried to keep themselves from starving.

One was identified as Thomson Beattie, a passenger. All three were buried at sea.

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Encyclopedia Titanica (2008) Titanic Victims Starved (Orange County Times-Press, Friday 17th May 1912, ref: #9182, published 7 October 2008, generated 30th January 2025 01:17:15 AM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victims-starved.html