Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Titanic
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-1-4463-0194-4 (ISBN)
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"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: The Titanic" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the most famous maritime disaster of all time. It delves into the astonishing facts surrounding the tragedy of 1912 and is essential for anyone wishing to separate myth from reality. With a range of trivia including facts about the construction of the vessel deemed to be 'unsinkable', the information is presented in an interesting and engaging way to embrace a wide variety of readers.
Unusual facts about the Titanic and its passengers, the history of the Titanic, strange stories of premonitions of the disaster, conspiracy theories, the various films, the sinking of the Titanic, the discovery of the wreck and salvage operations, are all explored.
The "Amazing And Extraordinary Facts" series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.
Stuart Robertson is a Naval and maritime expert and editor and is the author of The War at Sea (Conway) and The Pirate's Pocket Book (Conway).
Introduction
Harland and Wolff: Belfast’s
steely identity
The birthplace of Titanic
From Liverpool to Southampton
via bankruptcy
The White Star Line’s chequered history
Building for comfort not speed
Blue Riband takes a back seat
American-financed,
American-owned…
How British was Titanic?
Heavy metal
The Olympic class on the stocks
Slip sliding away
Launch day
It’s big
Largest moving man-made object on Earth
Ill-starred sister?
The Olympic and the origins of the `unsinkable’ description
The epitome of safety at sea
Titanic’s state of the art design philosophy
The eerie foresight of Robertson
and Stead
Predictions of the disaster?
A doomed ship?
Nonsense or truth?
A quick jaunt down the lough
Titanic’s trials – and a baptism of fire?
`Not very good material
for a story’
The confident Captain Smith
The embodiment of luxury afloat
Titanic’s unique selling points
Who sailed on the Titanic?
And where did they come from?
How many?
And in what class?
Proud point of departure
Southampton for the first and last time
Biscuit and grog of the
highest quality
Provisioning the world’s most
luxurious ship
A room of one’s own
Accommodation aboard Titanic
The points of no return
Getting on at Cherbourg and Queenstown
Unusual ways of boarding
Stories of stowaways and kidnappings
Rearranging the deckchairs...
Pastimes aboard ship
Fit to bust
What’s for dinner? And where?
Morse, Marconi and messaging
The value of wireless aboard ship
Flags and call-signs
How Titanic identified herself at sea
You have been warned
Ice warnings received – and ignored?
`Ice, right ahead’
Up in the crow’s nest with the lookouts
The gash that was actually
a buckle
What’s the real damage?
The chief designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews
There at the beginning, there at the end
Bad tidings
The men in the mail room
Binoculars and searchlights
Would they have made a difference?
That iceberg
Where is it now?
CQD or SOS?
Titanic’s distress calls
The show must go on
The Titanic’s stoic musicians
Signalling to the end
The scene in the wireless room
Make that the last verse...
The musicians’ last hurrah
`Be British, boys, be British!’
The last words and deeds of
Captain Smith
`A queer feeling’
The unsettled chief officer, Henry Wilde
The evacuation under way
The scandal of the half-filled lifeboats
Women, children...
And Americans first?
Titanic’s last hour
The giant slips under the waves
The Strauses
Together forever
You can’t take it with you...
John Jacob Astor IV
From steerage to
dressing Guggenheim
Bedroom steward Henry Etches
Hypothermia or drowning?
Life expectancy in the North Atlantic
The Carpathia to the rescue
Cunard collects the casualties
The tragic inactivity of
the Californian
What was she doing?
The news spreads...
Inaccurately
The Mackay-Bennett and Halifax
Bringing the dead back to shore
Titanic’s grim statistics
Who lived and who died
The authorities investigate
The US and British inquiries
Taking the rough with
the smooth
How did White Star treat Third
class passengers?
Hindsight is a wonderful thing
The question of Captain
Smith’s negligence
Anyone seen my
Marmalade Machine?
The curious possessions lost
aboard Titanic
The tangled bureaucracy
of death
Why the official tolls don’t match up
Southampton mourns
A fitting maritime memorial
Cold steel
Was the Titanic’s hull too brittle in
cold water?
It’s all a question of luck
The indomitable Violet Jessop
On the silver screen
Titanic in the cinema
Titanic back under the hammer
The trade in memorabilia
Secret assignment for Ballard
Cold War casualties are proving
ground for Titanic search
Scattered across the sea-bed
The resting places of the wreck
The slumbering giant disturbed
The ethical questions of visiting
the wreck
The last survivors of the Titanic
Lillian Asplund and Millvina Dean
Titanic sails up the Thames
Tragedy, tourism and trade
`Rusticles’
What’s eating the Titanic?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.3.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Amazing and Extraordinary Facts |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 16 x 177 mm |
| Gewicht | 268 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge | |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4463-0194-X / 144630194X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4463-0194-4 / 9781446301944 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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