Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

By Marshall, Logan

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Title:	Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Author:	Marshall, Logan
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. FIRST NEWS OF THE GREATEST MARINE DISASTER IN HISTORY ?The TITANIC IN COLLISION, BUT EVERYBODY SAFE? ? ANOTHER TRIUMPH SET DOWN TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ? The WORLD GOES TO SLEEP PEACEFULLY ? The SAD AWAKENING. LIKE a bolt out of a clear sky came the wireless message on Monday, April 15, 1912, that on Sunday night the great Titanic, on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, had struck a gigantic iceberg, but that all the passengers were saved. The ship had signaled her distress and another victory was set down to wireless. Twenty?one hundred lives saved! Additional news was soon received that the ship had collided with a mountain of ice in the North Atlantic, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, at 10.25 Sunday evening, April 14th. At 4.15 Monday morning the Canadian Government Marine Agency received a wireless message that the Titanic was sinking and that the steamers towing her were trying to get her into shoal water near Cape Race, for the purpose of beaching her.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, 1 -- Edited by Logan Marshall, 1 -- Chapter I. FIRST NEWS OF THE GREATEST MARINE DISASTER IN HISTORY, 4 -- Chapter II. THE MOST SUMPTUOUS PALACE AFLOAT, 5 -- Chapter III. THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE TITANIC, 8 -- Chapter IV. SOME OF THE NOTABLE PASSENGERS, 10 -- Chapter V. THE TITANIC STRIKES AN ICEBERG!, 14 -- Chapter VI. WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!, 18 -- Chapter VII. LEFT TO THEIR FATE, 28 -- Chapter VIII. THE CALL FOR HELP HEARD, 37 -- Chapter IX. IN THE DRIFTING LIFE?BOATS, 38 -- Chapter X. ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA, 46 -- Chapter XI. PREPARATIONS ON LAND TO RECEIVE THE SUFFERERS, 51 -- Chapter XII. THE TRAGIC HOME?COMING, 56 -- Chapter XIII. THE STORY OF CHARLES F. HURD, 78 -- Chapter XIV. THRILLING ACCOUNT BY L. BEASLEY, 80 -- Chapter XV. JACK THAYER'S OWN STORY OF THE WRECK, 84 -- Chapter XVI. INCIDENTS RELATED BY JAMES McGOUGH, 86 -- Chapter XVII. WIRELESS OPERATOR PRAISES HEROIC WORK, 88 -- Chapter XVIII. STORY OF THE STEWARD, 90 -- Chapter XIX. HOW THE WORLD RECEIVED THE NEWS, 93 -- Chapter XX. BRAVERY OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW, 97 -- Chapter XXI. SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD, 101 -- Chapter XXII. CRITICISM OF ISMAY, 107 -- Chapter XXIII. THE FINANCIAL LOSS, 109 -- Chapter XXIV. OPINIONS OF EXPERTS, 110 -- Chapter XXV. OTHER GREAT MARINE DISASTERS, 112 -- Chapter XXVI. DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPBUILDING, 115 -- Chapter XXVII. SAFETY AND LIFE?SAVING DEVICES, 118 -- Chapter XXVIII. TIME FOR REFLECTION AND REFORMS, 121 -- Chapter XXIX. THE SENATORIAL INVESTIGATION, 124 -- Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters -- i