Titanic : minute by minute /
by Mayo, Jonathan.
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BookPublisher: London : Short Books, 2016Description: 333 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781780722696 (pbk.) :; 1780722699 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 363.123 MAYSubject(s): Titanic (Steamship) | Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean | Transport | TransportSummary: At 2.20am on April 15th 1912, the Titanic was plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor. The Titanic had broken into two pieces - her streamlined bow speeding to the bottom of the sea, her stern sinking slower, breaking up as it went. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. It would take an hour for all the remains of the great ship to hit the seabed. Hundreds of passengers and crew were still trapped below decks - hundreds more were floating on the surface. This book is the story of the sinking, told in fascinating detail.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.123 MAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 02/11/2024 | 002928879X |
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| 363.1196 MOO The radium girls : they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice / | 363.122 RAN Snow, flood, and tempest: | 363.123 BEE The loss of the Titanic: 'I survived the Titanic' | 363.123 MAY Titanic : minute by minute / | 363.123 PAU Titanic love stories: the true stories of 13 honeymoon couples who sailed on the Titanic | 363.123 REP Report into the loss of the SS Titanic: | 363.123 VOI Voices from the Titanic |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At 2.20am on April 15th 1912, the Titanic was plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor. The Titanic had broken into two pieces - her streamlined bow speeding to the bottom of the sea, her stern sinking slower, breaking up as it went. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. It would take an hour for all the remains of the great ship to hit the seabed. Hundreds of passengers and crew were still trapped below decks - hundreds more were floating on the surface. This book is the story of the sinking, told in fascinating detail.
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