The Titanic : end of a dream / Wyn Craig Wade

By: Wade, Wyn CraigMaterial type: TextTextEdition: Rev. edDescription: xviii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 0140166912; 9780140166910Subject(s): Titanic (Steamship) | Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic OceanDDC classification: 909/.09631 LOC classification: G530.T6 | W32 1986
Contents:
Pilots of the purple twilight -- Midnight crossing -- Monster ship -- Bon voyage -- The backwash ashore -- Homecoming -- Journey's end -- The investigation -- A bobbing sort of a cuss -- The "Congressional Limited" -- The New York hearings (1) -- The New York hearings (2) -- Back in Washington -- Collision -- calumny -- Twenty boats and a quiet sea -- Dies irae -- "Pull for the shore, sailor" -- The "Californian" incident -- Corporate culpability -- Sea change -- " A new birth of vigilance" -- The American inquiry and the law -- End of a dream
Summary: An examination of the maiden voyage of the Titantic in 1912 which resulted in the deaths of 1522 people. Includes information from the Woods Hole expedition in 1985 which found and photographed the wreckage
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Pilots of the purple twilight -- Midnight crossing -- Monster ship -- Bon voyage -- The backwash ashore -- Homecoming -- Journey's end -- The investigation -- A bobbing sort of a cuss -- The "Congressional Limited" -- The New York hearings (1) -- The New York hearings (2) -- Back in Washington -- Collision -- calumny -- Twenty boats and a quiet sea -- Dies irae -- "Pull for the shore, sailor" -- The "Californian" incident -- Corporate culpability -- Sea change -- " A new birth of vigilance" -- The American inquiry and the law -- End of a dream

An examination of the maiden voyage of the Titantic in 1912 which resulted in the deaths of 1522 people. Includes information from the Woods Hole expedition in 1985 which found and photographed the wreckage

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