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Titanic: Solving The Mysteries
The sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 is one of the best-remembered, and most-scrutinised, moments of the twentieth century. Yet ever since the disaster, there have been lingering mysteries, questions that seemed utterly impossible to answer.
In recent years, a string of allegations have also been made to the effect that the Titanic was suffering from a fire in one of her coal bunkers during the maiden voyage. Televised programmes, media broadcasts, and even a new book would have the public believe that Titanic was all but a blazing inferno before she even struck the iceberg, and that it was the fire that actually doomed the ship.
Then there is the question of the time difference between ship’s time and time on shore on the night of the disaster – a complex navigational mystery that has a direct bearing on understanding key aspects of how events played out on that fateful night.
Now follow an international and world-renowned team of Titanic and maritime historians and researchers as we attempt to solve two of the most important, and most publicized, mysteries of the Titanic disaster.
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Recently, old claims that the Titanic disaster was due, in whole or in part, to a coal bunker fire have been combined with claims that the ship was built and operated ‘on the cheap’, and was thus all but doomed before she ever left the White Star Dock.
Another mystery that has surrounded the maiden voyage has to do with how much time separated the liner’s shipboard clocks from time ashore when she went down. Each inquiry arrived at a different conclusion on the subject, and in recent years revisionist enthusiasts have tried to use this confusion to literally rewrite history.
Our team originally released two online papers, “Titanic: Fire & Ice (Or What You Will)” and “Time & Again: Titanic’s Final Hours” to delve into these two extraordinarily complex matters. Now revised, expanded, and made available in print format for the first time, this volume tries to answer questions that have lingered for over a century.
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| Author | Bill Wormstedt, Ioannis Georgiou, J. Kent Layton, Mark Chirnside, Samuel Halpern, Steve Hall, Tad Fitch |
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| Hardcover | 424 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0464619345 |
