Buy this book on-line GARDINER, ROBIN & van DER VAT**, DAN: : THE RIDDLE OF THE TITANICLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1995. ISBN 0297815288.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4th imp (same year as 1st).MINT/NMINT.Blue paper-covered boards with silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,two colour illus of Titanic in section endpapers. Colour art-deco style dw/dj.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4th imp, 312pp includes b/w plan of Titanic, 24pp b/w photographs,appendices(2),notes,a
bibliography and an index.
Ten years after the Titanic was found and
eighty-three after she sank,the world's most famous sea disaster seems all the more mysterious.Even the recovery of 3,600 Titanic relics of the great White Star liner from her wreck two and a half miles under the North Atlantic has settled none of the main issues.Why did Captain Smith accelerate in uniquely treacherous weather towards an exceptionally dangerous ice-field of which he had been warned many times? In the disaster that followed more than 1,500 people died while barely 700 were saved.
This book lays bare as no other the full scope of Smith's astonishing accident record and explores his motives - and the pressures on him - anew.What caused the hole near the bow? The notorious iceberg cracked the plates for 300 feet along the ship's side, but the hole looks more like an explosion.Why is the position of the wreck - pinpointed by the latest technology - irreconcilable with the Titanic's SOS calls? The authors conclude that the apparently ruthless American disaster hearings covered up the role of the ship's true owner,the arch-capitalist,J.Pierpont Morgan; that the apparently dispassionate British inquiry, dominated by an insider-dealing Attorney-General,whitewashed a complacent government; and that White Star covered up its own gross negligence by bribing key witnesses.
And what of the wreck itself? Here the mystery deepens.When Dr Robert Ballard - who first located the Titanic in 1985 - explored its wreck a year later he found the bulkhead not shown on any plans.The most diligent searches have since failed to trace the imposing stern nameplate with its embossed letters eighteen inches high.
The authors have gone so far as to explore
the breathtaking idea that the Titanic was replaced by her sister ship,the seriously damaged Olympic,in a plot to recover the huge losses she ran up.The results are tantalising.
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