"Unsinkable": The Full Story of the RMS Titanic

This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the Titanic's history, including her spectacular construction in an Irish shipyard and maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, which sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April 1912.Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends. Unsinkable provides a fresh look at the Titanic’s incredible story. Following the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the present day, Daniel Allen Butler draws on thirty years of research to explore the tragedy and its aftermath in remarkable depth and detail.

first Time In Paperback: A New York Times Best Seller And A Masterful Treatment Of The Titanic Disaster-walter Lord, Author Of A Night To Remember

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because The Story Is So Dramatic, This Retelling Of The Sinking Of The Titanic Is A Page-turner, Even Though Butler, A Florida-based Veteran Of The U.s. Army And A Titanic Buff, Has Little To Add To What Is Already Well Known. He Presents Interesting Information On The First Four Days Of The Voyage But Otherwise Recounts The Mishaps That Contributed To The Tragedy: The Failure Of The Ship's Officers To Heed The Iceberg Warnings; The Tacit Refusal Of A Nearby Ship To Come To The Titanic's Aid; And The Fact That The Few Lifeboats That Fled The Ship Were Only Half Full, Leaving Behind 1500 Passengers To Perish. Although Butler Notes That A Greater Proportion Of First-class Male Passengers Were Saved Than Third-class Women, He Theorizes Foolishly That This Was Due More To A Conditioned Lack Of Initiative On The Part Of Steerage Passengers Than To Class Discrimination. Photos Not Seen By Pw. (apr.)

This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the __Titanic__'s history, including her spectacular conception in an Irish shipyard and the ambitious modern-day attempts to salvage her. The familiar story of the RMS __Titanic__—from her encounter with an iceberg to her demise some three hours later, taking with her more than fifteen hundred people—still looms large in the popular imagination, and in Daniel Butler's as well. He studied the __Titanic__'s history for thirty years, intensively compiling facts about the disaster and the players involved (from Captain Smith and his crew to the ill-fated third-class passengers). He even made the startling discovery of a nearby ship that ignored the __Titanic__'s distress call because the shipmates were afraid to awaken their captain. Drawn from primary sources and period accounts, this new narrative puts the disaster into historical context and serves as an essential resource for scholars of __Titanic__ lore. This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the Titanic 's history, including her spectacular conception in an Irish shipyard and the ambitious modern-day attempts to salvage her. The familiar story of the RMS Titanic —from her encounter with an iceberg to her demise some three hours later, taking with her more than fifteen hundred people—still looms large in the popular imagination, and in Daniel Butler's as well. He studied the Titanic 's history for thirty years, intensively compiling facts about the disaster and the players involved (from Captain Smith and his crew to the ill-fated third-class passengers). He even made the startling discovery of a nearby ship that ignored the Titanic 's distress call because the shipmates were afraid to awaken their captain. Drawn from primary sources and period accounts, this new narrative puts the disaster into historical context and serves as an essential resource for scholars of Titanic lore. Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends.“Unsinkable” provides a fresh look at the Titanic's incredible story. Following the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the present day, Daniel Allen Butler draws on thirty years of research to explore the tragedy and its aftermath in remarkable depth and detail. The result is a must-read for anyone interested in the Titanic. Reviews the story of the Titanic, from its building to the inquiries that were conducted in the U.S. and Britain after it sank in 1912, taking into account the beliefs, attitudes, and ideas of the era which influenced the actions or inactions of people involved in the disaster Drawn from primary sources and period accounts, this volume puts the disaster into historical context. The narrative explores every facet of the Titanic's history, including her conception in an Irish shipyard and the ambitious modern-day attempts to salvage her. "This is a history 'of the disaster and aftermath, drawing on first-person accounts and solid secondary sources.'" Libr J. IT WAS JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON MAY 31, 1911.