A treasury of Titanic tales /

Stories of life and death from a night to remember.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrison, Webb, 1919-2000 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tenn : Rutledge Hill Press, [1998]
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Table of Contents:
  • Harold Bride: switched signals
  • Guglielmo Marconi: champion lifesaver
  • Belfast: behemoth!
  • Southampton: bon voyage
  • Smooth sailing: a sea of glass
  • Day five: best crossing ever
  • The collision: blue ice
  • Archibald Gracie: fate at work
  • Archibald Butt and Frank Millet: Damon and Pythias
  • John Jacob Astor: JJA or AV?
  • William Thomas Stead: a last crusade
  • Isidor and Ida Straus: hand in hand
  • Harry Widener: A wish fulfilled
  • Benjamin Guggenheim: black sheep
  • Maggie Brown: Unsinkable!
  • J. Bruce Ismay: Scapegoat
  • J. Pierpont Morgan: Tapestries versus the Titanic
  • Very early Monday: women and children first
  • Four hours plus: the cruel sea
  • Dawn for some: The Carpathia
  • All the news that's fit to print: facts and fantasies
  • Pier fifty-four: agony and ecstasy
  • Halifax: mission Macabre
  • William A. Smith: bully pulpit!
  • Lord Mersey: a bloody whitewash
  • Aftermath: raise the Titanic.