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Author | : Steve Hall |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0752467816 |
The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 – an accident that may have made her a liability to her owners the White Star Line. Since 1912 rumours of a conspiracy to switch the two sisters in an elaborate insurance scam has always loomed behind the tragic story of the Titanic. Could the White Star Line have really switched the Olympic with her near identical sister in a ruse to intentionally sink their mortally damaged flagship in April 1912, in order to cash in on the insurance policy? Laying bare the famous conspiracy theory, world-respected Titanic researchers investigate claims that the sister ships were switched in an insurance scam and provide definitive proof for whether it could - or could not - have happened.
Author | : Steve Hall |
Publisher | : Infinity Pub |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780741419491 |
Author | : Robin Gardiner |
Publisher | : Ian Allen Pub |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780711034860 |
Did the Titanic really sink? Or was it sister ship Olympic? Was it a massive cover-up or an insurance scam? These and many other questions are raised in Robin Gardiner's brilliantly entertaining read which reveals a fascinating version of what really happened on that terrible night in April 1912.
Author | : Mark Chirnside |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750963484 |
Sitting around a dining-room table in 1907, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newly-built Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania. From that smoke-filled room came the first designs of three White Star superliners. Olympic and Titanic were to be built at Harland & Wolff's yard in Belfast, while the third ship was to follow after construction had been completed on the first pair of sisters. The only ship to make a return passenger voyage was Olympic and she was always overshadowed by her younger sisters. This is the definitive story of Titanic's sister RMS Olympic. First published in 2004 to critical acclaim, this new edition presents a revised expanded work from one the most successful maritime authors at work in Britain today.
Author | : Mark Chirnside |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780750956239 |
A pictorial celebration of the world-famous sister ships: the Olympic-class liners A maritime expert tells the story of the sister ships using previously unseen pictures, passenger diaries, and deck plans, illustrating Olympic's successful career; the premature ends of her two unfortunate sisters; and the experiences of those onboard. Designed for passenger comfort, they were intended to provide luxurious surroundings and safe, reliable transport rather than record-breaking speed. Ironically, fate decreed that only Olympic would ever complete a single commercial voyage and she went on to serve for a quarter of a century in peace and war. Titanic's name would become infamous after she sank on her maiden voyage. The third sister, Britannic, saw a brief and commendable career as a hospital ship during World War I, sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.
Author | : Brian Hawley |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445623951 |
This is the story of the Titanics sister ship the Olympic, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of her maiden voyage in June 2011
Author | : Wade Sisson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 144560891X |
The wireless crackled, an SOS was broadcast. Olympic, Titanic's older sister ship was a mere 350 miles away from the sinking liner. Would Olympic reach her in time -
Author | : Violet Jessop |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1461740320 |
Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. “One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field.” For most people one sinking would be enough. But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. To her, this disaster was even more horrifying-- “Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day, my nose barely above the little lapping waves. I opened my eyes on an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again to keep it out." By the end of her story we have a met a woman who could handle whatever life threw at her with determination and good humor. She knew that only by her own strength of character would she survive. But Titanic Survivor is much more. A unique autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor.
Author | : Samuel Halpern |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750969415 |
Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discovery of the wreck in 1985. This collective undertaking is compiled by eleven of the world's foremost Titanic researchers – experts who have spent many years examining the wealth of information that has arisen since 1912. Following the basic layout of the 1912 Wreck Commission Report, this modern report provides fascinating insights into the ship itself, the American and British inquiries, the passengers and crew, the fateful journey and ice warnings received, the damage and sinking, rescue of survivors, the circumstances in connection with the SS Californian and SS Mount Temple, and the aftermath and ramifications that followed the disaster. The book seeks to answer controversial questions, such as whether steerage passengers were detained behind gates, and also reveals the names and aliases of all passengers and crew who sailed on Titanic's maiden voyage. Containing the most extensively referenced chronology of the voyage ever assembled and featuring a wealth of explanatory charts and diagrams, as well as archive photographs, this comprehensive volume is the definitive 'go-to' reference book for this ill-fated ship.
Author | : Morgan Robertson |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486837327 |
This eerily prescient novella from 1898 — 14 years before the Titanic disaster — tells of an "unsinkable" luxury liner's maiden voyage across the Atlantic and her disastrous collision with an iceberg.