Titanic: The Legend Of The Unsinkable Ship

by Beau Riffenburgh

Hailed as the safest ship ever built and the ultimate in luxury, within five days of beginning her maiden voyage the Titanic had sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of over 1,500 lives. One hundred years since the disaster, the fate of the tragic ship still horrifies and enthralls.

Titanic: The Legend of the Unsinkable Ship provides a unique and compelling insight into the life of the magnificent vessel by charting the greatest of all maritime disasters from the initial concept and the excitement of her first voyage to the dramatic collision and sinking, culminating with recent investigations and salvage missions. Complete with over 100 photographs, which take you from the glamorous ballrooms and restaurants down to the submerged grandeur of the wreck, this book also contains 12 facsimiles of rare Titanic documents, including:

• An original blueprint from the construction of the Titanic
• Baggage claim ticket
• A memo issued by the US Navy giving reports of heavy ice on the night of the tragedy
• Telegrams sent to and from the Titanic as she sank
• A postcard sent from Queenstown by a passenger who died when the ship sank
• The statement of Second Officer Herbert Stone who watched from the California as the Titanic sank

Genres: Nonfiction, History

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Beau Riffenburgh is an author and historian specializing in polar exploration. Under the pseudonym Simon Beaufort, Beau has also co-authored 10 novels with his wife, medieval mystery writer Susanna Gregory. Eight of these are about the Crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone, but the most recent is a modern police procedural, The Murder House (2013). All told, he has written, edited, or contributed to more than 60 books.He is also an American Football coach and author of books on football history.

Reviews

[Archit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone has seen the movie but what is way too cool is that most of the times books garner you with more information, so it happened with Titanic : The Legend of the Unsinkable Ship.

Anyone interested in Titanic ship would appreciate it.

There is a quote that comes to my mind about motivation:

"Don't give up when thinking that just because you're new in a field you can't do it. Remember, airplane was built by amateurs and Titanic was built by experts."

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the most in depth book about Titanic I’ve ever read, but definitely a good one. I loved the addition of “artifacts” in envelopes that you can take out and look at, such as telegrams from Titanic and a postcard posted from Titanic in its stop in Cherbourg before heading out in open water. My obsession with this disaster will likely never die. In fact, I’ll probably read another book about it soon.

[Shadoe Hare · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very detailed book with lots of pictures. and I loved all the little replicated extras that came in the included envelopes. (There was a postcard, a flyer for toiletry soap used on the ship, the ship's telegraph messages about them sinking, etc.) I bought this book used, however, and the items that were supposed to be in the pages are missing so I can't comment on those. But overall this was a great book and would highly recommend it to any Titanic fan.

[Eric Tsavdar · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're interested in the history of Titanic, you'll like this. Lot's of tidbits and factoids that I didn't even know.

[Evie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Way cool!