The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons
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About This Book
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 through the doors of Messrs. Houghton and Mifflin to tell his tale. THE LOSS OF THE S.S. TITANIC represents Beesley's attempt not just to record the events of the sinking but to set the record straight. In so doing, he captures both the majesty and the tragedy of this legendary voyage -- the view from the lifeboat as well as that from the deck. Full of wonderful nautical detail and written with a hair-r...
Chapters (11)
- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I CONSTRUCTION AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST VOYAGE
- CHAPTER II FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO THE NIGHT OF THE COLLISION
- CHAPTER III THE COLLISION AND EMBARKATION IN LIFEBOATS
- CHAPTER IV THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC SEEN FROM A LIFEBOAT
- CHAPTER V THE RESCUE
- CHAPTER VI THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC SEEN FROM HER DECK
- CHAPTER VII THE CARPATHIA'S RETURN TO NEW YORK
- CHAPTER VIII THE LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC
- CHAPTER IX SOME IMPRESSIONS
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