The lost ships of Robert Ballard /
Wrecks discussed include the Titanic, Britannic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Andrea Doria, Bismarck, and the ghost fleet of Guadalcanal.
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San Diego, California :
Thunder Bay Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Revisiting lost ships
- A better way to cross: The birth of the transatlantic ocean liner, 1819-1900
- Friendly rivals: The story of the Lusitania and Mauretania, 1907-1935
- Death of a dream: The saga of the Olympic and the Titanic, 1911-1935
- Forgotten sister: The brief life of White Star's Bitannic, 1914-1916
- High-seas society: Normandie, Queen Mary and the rise of glamour, 1919-1945
- Fast fade: The twilight of the Atlantic passenger liner, 1945-1956
- Sunken warriors: The pursuit of the Bismarck and the lost ships of Iron Bottom Sound, 1941-1942
- Epilogue: Preserving lost ships.