Describes the large luxury liner that sunk after colliding with an iceberg in 1912, focusing on the lifeboat rescue of the surviving passengers and the inquiry after the tragedy that brought about additional regulations in maintaining safety on passenger ships.
Describes the ocean liner Titanic, its maiden voyage and sinking, and discusses the recent discovery and exploration of the ship's remains on the ocean floor using deep-diving robots and the representation of Titanic on stage and in film.
photographs and mementos of the tragic maiden voyage
O'Donnell, Edward Eugene
1997
A collection of black-and-white photographs taken by Francis Browne, an Irish Jesuit priest who was a passenger aboard the Titanic on the ship's maiden voyage, traveling from Southhampton to Ireland where he left the ship before it headed out on its ill-fated journey toward America.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station.
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the Cornish coastal town where they are stranded.
A history of the heyday of the transatlantic superliner, exploring legendary ships such as the Titanic, Lusitania, Britannic, and Andrea Doria through essays, illustrations, and photographs of the vessels in their prime and on the ocean floor.
In 1907, fourteen-year-old Laura living with her family on one of the stormy Isles of Scilly records in her diary how her dream of participating in a shipwreck rescue is finally realized.
