The Unsinkable Titanic: The Triumph Behind a Disaster
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0752456253 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorAllen Gibson has worked for the House of Commons, the Foreign Office, Downing Street, and the Underwater Wreck Licensing Branch for the Department of National Heritage, responsible for safeguarding Britain's interest for Titanic.
Allen Gibson has worked for the House of Commons, the Foreign Office, Downing Street, and the Underwater Wreck Licensing Branch for the Department of National Heritage, responsible for safeguarding Britain's interest for Titanic.
Thomas Bonacuso said A "Titanic" read !. For a technophile like me, this book is the ultimate Titanic story. It delves deeply into the design, materials, construction, propulsion system, rudder dynamics, turning radius, Marconi wireless, and more. It also looks at the issues that led up to the disaster, like the Board of Trade's ruling that actually allowed an inadequate number of . BookieTN said Recommended, But Probablly Not for the Uninitiated.. This is an easy book to recommend -- if the reader is a Titanic fanatic. I would not recommend it as a maiden voyage for someone new to the topic. This is not a dramatic narrative of maritime tragedy. Walter Lord did that very nicely in A Night to Remember. What it offers instead is an achingly detailed examination of the context, constructi. not quite a triumph gerryw I have just finished reading Allen Gibson's "The Unsinkable Titanic- the triumph behind a disaster". Essentially this is an enjoyable and enlightening readpunctuated with large amounts of facts and figures. The only real issue of concern for me was that the author holds the theory that after the iceberg was sighted 1st officer Murdoch ordere
Using original material, it explores not only how the sinking occurred but also examines the significance and allure of Titanic as well as boldly establishing a future for the wreck itself.. It exposes the true interests of the people involved in the operation, regulation, and investigation into Titanic, and lays bare the technology so dramatically destroyed. Juxtaposing the dueling worlds of economics and safety, this study rationalizes the mindset that willfully dispatched the world's largest ship out to sea with a deficient supply of lifeboats. Turning on its head history's wrongful association of Titanic to a legacy of farce and failure, this book underlines how safe the ship really was and investigates the era's technology and mindset Delving into the ship's legacy, this history puts forward the refreshing argument that Titanic represented a considerable achievement in maritime architecture. It determines the true causes of the disaster, telling the story of the "unsinkable" ship against a backdrop of a tumultuous and rapidly