{"product_id":"2940012941916","title":"THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC ITS STORY AND ITS LESSONS","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe circumstances in which this book came to be written are as\u003cbr\u003efollows. Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed\u003cbr\u003ein New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon. Samuel J. Elder and\u003cbr\u003eHon. Charles T. Gallagher, both well-known lawyers in Boston. After\u003cbr\u003eluncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the\u003cbr\u003esurvivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I had done so, Mr. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, the editor of the\u003cbr\u003e_Boston Herald_, urged me as a matter of public interest to write\u003cbr\u003ea correct history of the Titanic disaster, his reason being that he\u003cbr\u003eknew several publications were in preparation by people who had not\u003cbr\u003ebeen present at the disaster, but from newspaper accounts were piecing\u003cbr\u003etogether a description of it. He said that these publications would\u003cbr\u003eprobably be erroneous, full of highly coloured details, and generally\u003cbr\u003ecalculated to disturb public thought on the matter. He was supported\u003cbr\u003ein his request by all present, and under this general pressure I\u003cbr\u003eaccompanied him to Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, where we\u003cbr\u003ediscussed the question of publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMessrs. Houghton Mifflin Company took at that time exactly the same\u003cbr\u003eview that I did, that it was probably not advisable to put on record\u003cbr\u003ethe incidents connected with the Titanic's sinking: it seemed better\u003cbr\u003eto forget details as rapidly as possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, we decided to take a few days to think about it. At our next\u003cbr\u003emeeting we found ourselves in agreement again,--but this time on the\u003cbr\u003ecommon ground that it would probably be a wise thing to write a\u003cbr\u003ehistory of the Titanic disaster as correctly as possible. I was\u003cbr\u003esupported in this decision by the fact that a short account, which I\u003cbr\u003ewrote at intervals on board the Carpathia, in the hope that it would\u003cbr\u003ecalm public opinion by stating the truth of what happened as nearly as\u003cbr\u003eI could recollect it, appeared in all the American, English, and\u003cbr\u003eColonial papers and had exactly the effect it was intended to have.\u003cbr\u003eThis encourages me to hope that the effect of this work will be the\u003cbr\u003esame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother matter aided me in coming to a decision,--the duty that we, as\u003cbr\u003esurvivors of the disaster, owe to those who went down with the ship,\u003cbr\u003eto see that the reforms so urgently needed are not allowed to be\u003cbr\u003eforgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhoever reads the account of the cries that came to us afloat on the\u003cbr\u003esea from those sinking in the ice-cold water must remember that they\u003cbr\u003ewere addressed to him just as much as to those who heard them, and\u003cbr\u003ethat the duty, of seeing that reforms are carried out devolves on\u003cbr\u003eevery one who knows that such cries were heard in utter helplessness\u003cbr\u003ethe night the Titanic sank.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.    CONSTRUCTION AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST VOYAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.   FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO THE NIGHT OF THE COLLISION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.  THE COLLISION AND EMBARKATION IN LIFEBOATS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.   THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC, SEEN FROM A LIFEBOAT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.    THE RESCUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.   THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC, SEEN FROM HER DECK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.  THE CARPATHIA'S RETURN TO NEW YORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. THE LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX.   SOME IMPRESSIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONSTRUCTION AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST VOYAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of\u003cbr\u003ethe most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had\u003cbr\u003ewaited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had\u003cbr\u003eread accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness\u003cbr\u003eand luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that\u003cbr\u003esuch a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed\u003cbr\u003eand built--the \"unsinkable lifeboat\";--and then in a moment to hear\u003cbr\u003ethat it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp\u003cbr\u003esteamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers,\u003cbr\u003esome of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing\u003cbr\u003eever happening was what staggered humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf its history had to be written in a single paragraph it would be\u003cbr\u003esomewhat as follows:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The R.M.S. Titanic was built by Messrs. Harland \u0026amp; Wolff at their\u003cbr\u003ewell-known ship-building works at Queen's Island, Belfast, side by\u003cbr\u003eside with her sister ship the Olympic. The twin vessels marked such an\u003cbr\u003eincrease in size that specially laid-out joiner and boiler shops were\u003cbr\u003eprepared to aid in their construction, and the space usually taken up\u003cbr\u003eby three building slips was given up to them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145483960560,"sku":"2940012941916","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012941916_p0.jpg?v=1763574704","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012941916","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}