This report which has been out of print for many years, illustrated with archive photographs of the ship and of survivors who gave evidence at the enquiry, will enable the reader to get closer to the reality of that night.
Report on the Loss of the S.S. Titanic
... Mr Nils Johansson, Mr Oskar Larder Johnson, Mr Alfred Johnson, Mrs Elisabeth Vilhelmina Johnson, Master Harold Theodor [child] Johnson, Miss Eleanor Ileen [child] Johnson, Mr Malkolm Joackim Johnson, Mr William Cahoone Jr Johnston, ...
A first-person survivor's account of the sinking of this great ship chronicles the fateful maiden voyage of Titanic with often searing detail. Reissue.
Lawrence Beesley (1877-1967), was an English teacher, journalist and author who was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
A chilling first-person account of the sinking of the Titanic, Lawrence Beesley's The Loss of the S.S. Titanic recounts in detail the author's experience as a second-class passenger and survivor of the doomed ship.
First published in 1912, just two short months after the sinking of the TITANIC, this hauntingly immediate account opens with Lawrence Beesley's story of arriving onshore and soon after walking...
The circumstances in which this book came to be written are as follows.
'The best first-hand account of a passenger's experiences - a first-rate piece of descriptive writing' THE GUARDIAN
The deep water channel was located closer to the northern shore than to the southern shore, meaning that Titanic needed to 'hug' the line of quays to a certain extent. Meanwhile, smaller traffic moving up river would pass along ...
Facsimile of 1912 edition (Cd. 6352). -- Contents: Part 1 - List of witnesses: evidence days 1-2; Part 2 - Evidence days 3-6; Part 3 - Evidence days 7-10; Part...