Description |
296 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm |
Note |
"First published in 1994 by Southampton City Council"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 295). |
Contents |
Historical introduction: Renaissance of Southampton--"American Line to White Star" -- Southampton 1912--"Ice Skating, the Latest Craze" -- Provisioning--"A Ship Full of Flowers" -- Signing on--"A Job On the Big 'Un" -- Departure--"There Goes Daddy's Ship" -- Last letters home--"My Dear Little Treasures" -- Atlantic Crossing--"Iceberg Ahead" -- Disaster--"All Hands On Deck" -- Waiting For News--"A Great Hush Descended on the Town" -- Colour section honour and glory: US enquiry--"Safe, SS Lapland, Sid" -- Homecoming--"The Hectic Greeting" -- British investigation--"Hands on the Whitewash Brush" -- Relief fund--"No Sympathy and No Jeering" -- Aftermath--"Almost Like Murder Wasn't It" -- Memorials and memories -- "April 15th, Very Sad Day" -- Acknowledgments and bibliography. |
Summary |
Titanic Voices relives the fateful events of April 15, 1912, through the firsthand accounts of those who were actually there. Using many previously unpublished photographs, letters, and oral histories, the book traces how the town of Southampton, its people, and the Titanic have been inextricably linked from even before the ship was built up to the present day. |
Subject |
Titanic (Steamship)
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Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean.
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Shipwrecks.
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Added Author |
Hyslop, Donald.
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Forsyth, Alastair.
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Jemima, Sheila.
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ISBN |
0312174284 cloth |
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9780312174286 cloth |
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