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The true story of Kurt Carlsen, the captain of the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise, who, in December 1951, struggled to evacuate his passengers and crew and bring the severely disabled ship back to port after high winds and waves threw the vessel over on her side.

Illustrated story of the Titanic, from her construction and launch to her sinking and rediscovery.

Four different narrations of the Titanic disaster.

Pictures and text describe the disastrous 1912 sinking of the world's largest ocean liner after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage.

Harold Lowe, fifth officer of RMS Titanic, was described by a surviving passenger as the real hero of the Titanic. Lowe took command of a flotilla of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors. He was the only officer to do so and succeeded in raising a sail, rescuing the drenched inhabitants of a sinking lifeboat, and towed another boat to safety. Not only did he survive the sinking of the Titanic but as a fifteen-year-old runaway went to West Africa and saw action in Siberia during the Russian Revolution.

Explores every aspect of the Titanic story, from her birth in Belfast to the tragic end. Covers the struggle for survival, the rediscovery of the wreck on the ocean floor, and the Titanic's afterlife in film, music, and books.

The survivors of the Titanic's sinking tell their stories. They include Jack Thayer, Eva Hart, Fred Barrett, Colonel Gracie, John Hart, Charles Joughin, and Lady Duff-Gordon.

The story of the Titanic's sinking told through survivors' tales and contemporary newspaper accounts from both sides of the Atlantic.

What was it like for a woman to actually say goodbye to her husband? For a mother to leave her teenage sons? For the many who found themselves in the freezing Atlantic water? This is the most comprehensive collection of Titanic survivors' accounts ever published and includes many unpublished and long-forgotten accounts.

Violet Jessop, a stewardess on the Titanic, had the misfortune to be on two liners that sank and to survive both of these events. Her insights into the sinking of the Titanic in particular give historians a look at the disaster from the point of view of a crew member close to the passengers but not one of them. Violet Jessup never married and supported her mother. Her nieces kept her letters and personal mementos and were instrumental in the publication of this book.