On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage
In this moving book, Titanic’s passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own words. Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were composed by people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent their last communications with their friends and loved ones at home. The subsequent letters and postcards give an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the five days that Titanic was at sea, and the correspondence by survivors after the tragedy describes the horror of the disaster itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of those they loved. This poignant compilation, by Titanic expert George Behe, also contains brief biographies of the passengers and crewmen – victims, as well as survivors – who wrote the documents in question.
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On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage
In this moving book, Titanic’s passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own words. Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were composed by people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent their last communications with their friends and loved ones at home. The subsequent letters and postcards give an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the five days that Titanic was at sea, and the correspondence by survivors after the tragedy describes the horror of the disaster itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of those they loved. This poignant compilation, by Titanic expert George Behe, also contains brief biographies of the passengers and crewmen – victims, as well as survivors – who wrote the documents in question.
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On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage

On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage

by George Behe
On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage

On Board RMS Titanic: Memories of the Maiden Voyage

by George Behe

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Overview

In this moving book, Titanic’s passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own words. Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were composed by people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent their last communications with their friends and loved ones at home. The subsequent letters and postcards give an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the five days that Titanic was at sea, and the correspondence by survivors after the tragedy describes the horror of the disaster itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of those they loved. This poignant compilation, by Titanic expert George Behe, also contains brief biographies of the passengers and crewmen – victims, as well as survivors – who wrote the documents in question.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780750982689
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 09/01/2017
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

George Behe is former vice president of the Titanic Historical Society. He has written numerous articles about the ship for the Titanic Historical Society’s journal, the Commutator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 Prelude: 31 May 1911 15

2 Pre-Sailing Days 17

3 10 April 1912: Titanic at Southampton 25

4 10 April 1912: Titanic Sails from Southampton for Cherbourg 31

5 11 April 1912: Titanic Arrives at Queenstown and Sails Onward 45

6 12 April 1912: Titanic at Sea 69

7 13 April 1912: Titanic at Sea 73

8 14 April 1912: Titanic at Sea 75

9 15 April 1912: Disaster 77

10 16 April 1912: On board the Carpathia 79

11 17 April 1912: On board the Carpathia 91

12 18 April 1912: On board the Carpathia 103

13 19 April 1912 and Afterwards 139

14 Passenger and Crew Biographies 407

Notes 499

Index 507

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