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Title Titanic voices : memories from the fateful voyage / written, compiled and edited by Donald Hyslop, Alastair Forsyth, and Sheila Jemima; photography by John Lawrence.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
1994.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  910.4 TITANIC    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  910.4 H99    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  910.9163 TITANIC    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  910.453 TIT    Missing
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  910.9163 TIT    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  910.9164 HYSLOP    Check Shelf
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 Using many previously unpublished photographs, letters, and oral histories, the book traces how the town of Southampton, its people, and the Titanic have been inextricably linked from even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)
Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean.
Shipwrecks.
Added Author Hyslop, Donald.
Forsyth, Alastair.
Jemima, Sheila.
ISBN 0312174284 cloth
9780312174286 cloth
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