Titanic

Titanic

by Filson Young
Titanic

Titanic

by Filson Young

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Overview

At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the Titanic started from Southampton on her maiden voyage. Small enough was her experience of the sea before that day. Many hands had handled her; many tugs had fussed about her, pulling and pushing her this way and that as she was manoeuvred in the waters of Belfast Lough and taken out to the entrance to smell the sea. There she had been swung and her compasses adjusted.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781508790754
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 03/09/2015
Pages: 74
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Filson Young was a influential journalist and writer. He had visited Belfast in the summer of 1911 to see the Titanic under construction and following the Titanic disaster went to Southampton to see her sister ship Olympic leave for America. He walked around on board and understood the feeling of unsinkability that had given such false confidence to the passengers and crew aboard the Titanic. He wrote many popular books including The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen.

Table of Contents

1 The Giant Ship Takes Shape 6

2 Noon, Wednesday 10 April 1912: Titanic Slips Out of Southampton 16

3 Afternoon, Thursday 11 April: Port of Cherbourg 29

4 Morning, Friday 12 April 34

5 April Ice 45

6 The Passengers 51

7 Sunday at Sea 59

8 'Close the Water-Tight Doors': 11.40pm Sunday 14 April 64

9 Muster on the Boat Deck 69

10 'Women & Children First': The Lowering of the Lifeboats 73

11 'Every Man for Himself' 86

12 The Band Plays On 93

13 'She is Gone': 2.20am Monday 15 April 102

14 Cries from the Sea 114

15 Saviour of the Survivors: Captain Rostron of the Carpathia 123

16 Final Destination, New York: Evening, Thursday 18 April 134

17 Heroes 146

List of Illustrations 155

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