| The Loss of the SS. Titanic Contributor(s): Beesley, Lawrence (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421817969 ISBN-13: 9781421817965 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $27.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built - the "unsinkable lifeboat"; - and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - History |
| Dewey: 623.820 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 144 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built - the "unsinkable lifeboat"; - and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity. |