A treasury of Titanic tales / Webb Garrison.

Author
Garrison, Webb, 1919-2000 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Nashville, Tenn : Rutledge Hill Press, c1998.
Description
240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Summary note
    Stories of life and death from a night to remember.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Harold Bride: switched signals
    • Guglielmo Marconi: champion lifesaver
    • Belfast: behemoth!
    • Southampton: bon voyage
    • Smooth sailing: a sea of glass
    • Day five: best crossing ever
    • The collision: blue ice
    • Archibald Gracie: fate at work
    • Archibald Butt and Frank Millet: Damon and Pythias
    • John Jacob Astor: JJA or AV?
    • William Thomas Stead: a last crusade
    • Isidor and Ida Straus: hand in hand
    • Harry Widener: A wish fulfilled
    • Benjamin Guggenheim: black sheep
    • Maggie Brown: Unsinkable!
    • J. Bruce Ismay: Scapegoat
    • J. Pierpont Morgan: Tapestries versus the Titanic
    • Very early Monday: women and children first
    • Four hours plus: the cruel sea
    • Dawn for some: The Carpathia
    • All the news that's fit to print: facts and fantasies
    • Pier fifty-four: agony and ecstasy --Halifax: mission Macabre
    • William A. Smith: bully pulpit!
    • Lord Mersey: a bloody whitewash
    • Aftermath: raise the Titanic.
    Other title(s)
    Titanic tales
    ISBN
    1558536582 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    ^^^98020438^
    OCLC
    39101911
    RCP
    H - S
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