On a Sea So Cold & Still: The Titanic-A Centennial Reader
Book Details
Author(s)Daniel Elton Harmon
ISBN / ASINB00872VBNS
ISBN-13978B00872VBN1
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
This centennial reader recounts the timeless story of the Titanic tragedy—with an emphasis on aspects of the saga that may be unfamiliar to many 21st-Century readers. Coincidences and lengthening postscripts abound, and countless questions linger:
* Why were the lookouts in the crow's nest not equipped with binoculars?
* Was there a smoldering fire in one of the coal bunkers, and if so, did it impact events before and after the iceberg collision?
* What if, instead of ordering a veer to port, First Officer William Murdoch had responded to the alarm by letting the ship hit the iceberg head-on? Would damage have been lessened?
* How culpable were J. Bruce Ismay, director of the shipping company, who curiously managed to find a place aboard a lifeboat? Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon, who not only took places and cast off in a third-full lifeboat but apparently discouraged the boat crew from returning to the scene to save others? Capt. Stanley Lord of the nearby steamship Californian, accused of failing to respond to the Titanic's summonses for help?
* Was there a "third ship" besides the Californian in the area, potentially capable of executing an early rescue operation?
* What were Capt. Edward J. Smith's final moments?
* What was on the mind of wireless operator Jack Phillips when, during the final minutes at his post, he transmitted the enigmatic signal "V"—and repeated it?
The Titanic, Daniel Elton Harmon's volume in Chelsea House' "Great Disasters: Reforms and Ramifications" series, was published in 2000. It focused on the aftermath of the great calamity that occurred on 14-15 April 1912. Expanding his research, Harmon has completed his sequel, On a Sea So Cold & Still. It sheds insights into the people involved and the sequence of events leading up to the catastrophic night.
Harmon is the author of more than 80 books including biographies of North American, South Pacific and polar explorers and an historic profile of the Hudson River. Nautical history is his passion.
* Why were the lookouts in the crow's nest not equipped with binoculars?
* Was there a smoldering fire in one of the coal bunkers, and if so, did it impact events before and after the iceberg collision?
* What if, instead of ordering a veer to port, First Officer William Murdoch had responded to the alarm by letting the ship hit the iceberg head-on? Would damage have been lessened?
* How culpable were J. Bruce Ismay, director of the shipping company, who curiously managed to find a place aboard a lifeboat? Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon, who not only took places and cast off in a third-full lifeboat but apparently discouraged the boat crew from returning to the scene to save others? Capt. Stanley Lord of the nearby steamship Californian, accused of failing to respond to the Titanic's summonses for help?
* Was there a "third ship" besides the Californian in the area, potentially capable of executing an early rescue operation?
* What were Capt. Edward J. Smith's final moments?
* What was on the mind of wireless operator Jack Phillips when, during the final minutes at his post, he transmitted the enigmatic signal "V"—and repeated it?
The Titanic, Daniel Elton Harmon's volume in Chelsea House' "Great Disasters: Reforms and Ramifications" series, was published in 2000. It focused on the aftermath of the great calamity that occurred on 14-15 April 1912. Expanding his research, Harmon has completed his sequel, On a Sea So Cold & Still. It sheds insights into the people involved and the sequence of events leading up to the catastrophic night.
Harmon is the author of more than 80 books including biographies of North American, South Pacific and polar explorers and an historic profile of the Hudson River. Nautical history is his passion.
