Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic

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Stackpole Books, 1998 - 292 pages
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No other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends and myths as Titanic. "Unsinkable" is a fresh look at this incredible story, one that centers on the people who built the ship, crewed her, and sailed on her. It follows the great ship as she grows on the ways at Harland & Wolff in Belfast, sails from Southampton toward her unexpected rendezvous with an iceberg, then slowly sinks into the North Atlantic, forever shattering the optimistic complacency of her era. The story doesn't end there, however, for the tale continues through the high drama of the U.S. Senate investigation and the British Board of Trade inquiry, then introduces the "mystery ship" Californian, whose officers watched Titanic sink and did nothing for fear of being subjected to their sleeping captain's wrath. The narrative then carries on with the recovery of many of Titanic's dead and their interment at Halifax, Nova Scotia, through the discovery of the wreck in 1985, and finally to the abortive 1996 expedition to raise a section of her rusted hull.
 

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Avis d'utilisateur  - Michele L. - Overstock.com

I am a sucker for anything related to the Titanic. This was a great book that gave more insight into what happened and the circumstances surrounding the sinking. When you think you know the story ... Consulter l'avis complet

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I was always fascinated by the Titanic. However, I was not getting into this book at all and made it to page 25. It was reading more like a textbook than anything else. Boring and way too much information that I didn't care about or really didn't need to know. Not for me. No stars. Consulter l'avis complet

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Page 65 - ETERNAL Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave. Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep ; O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.
Page 48 - When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales and storms and fog and the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about.
Page 95 - No, put it on ... Well, if you value your life, put it on." Andrews understood people very well. A charming, dynamic man, he was everywhere, helping everyone. And people naturally looked to him. He handled them differently, depending on what he thought of them. He told garrulous Steward Johnson that everything...
Page 130 - Men, you have done your full duty. You can do no more. Abandon your cabin. Now it's every man for himself.
Page 19 - Third Class was a story unto itself. A great many myths have built up around the flood of immigrants that flowed to the shores of the New World at the end of the ninereenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, aided by a spare of romanticized reporting, photographs, and artwork from the period. All too often these sreerage — as Third Class was commonly known — passengers are portrayed as "tired, poor . . . huddled masses...
Page 123 - There was a pause and then Mr. Guggenheim continued: '"Tell my wife, Johnson, if it should happen that my secretary and I both go down and you are saved, tell her I played the game out straight and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward.
Page 193 - The BOT had passed that ship as in all respects fit for sea, in every sense of the word, with sufficient margin of safety for everyone on board. Now the BOT was holding an inquiry into the loss of that ship — hence the whitewash brush.
Page 63 - Mesaba" to "Titanic" and all east-bound ships: Ice report in latitude 42° N. to 41° 25' N., longitude 49° to longitude 50° 30' W. Saw much heavy pack ice and great number large icebergs. Also field ice. Weather good, clear.
Page 120 - ... words, Van Anda and The Times went all the way with the story; they played it big. At other newspapers, editors were more skeptical, more cautious, inserting such words as "rumored" here and there. Van Anda's three-column headline mirrored the sureness that has marked The Times through its history : NEW LINER TITANIC HITS AN ICEBERG; SINKING BY THE BOW AT MIDNIGHT; WOMEN PUT OFF IN LIFEBOATS; LAST WIRELESS AT 12:27 AM BLURRED...
Page 123 - I think there is grave doubt that the men will get off safely. I am willing to remain and play the man's game, if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. I won't die here like a beast. I'll meet my end as a man.

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Daniel Allen Butler, the son of a former merchant marine seaman, is the author of Unsinkable: The Full Story of RMS Titanic (0-8117-1814-X), and The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend (0-8117-0989-2). He currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida.

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