An exploration of why the legacy of the
Titanic persists, in procedures, building regulation, navigational practice, statues, poems, novels, movies, and even a musical
April 15, 2012, marks 100 years since the
Titanic hit an iceberg and foundered in the North Atlantic with the loss of 1,513 lives. She was certainly not the fastest passenger ship of the time and had the disaster not occurred, she would have lost the title of the largest liner within just two years—yet
Titanic captures the imagination like no other. This book seeks to explore the myths and the truth about
Titanic as well as the legacy that has made the ship so well known. It discusses such questions as
Why was she built? Who really owned her? Why was nobody ever proved negligent? How has today's transportation been made safer by Titanic
? and
Have we really learned the right lessons?
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20th Century HistoryTable of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1 The Context of Titanic
- Chapter 2 The Olympic Class
- Chapter 3 Anatomy of a Disaster
- Chapter 4 Carpathia Speeds to the Rescue
- Chapter 5 Aftermath
- Chapter 6 The Demise of White Star and Harland & Wolff, a Conspiracy and the Finding of Titanic
- Chapter 7 The Safety Lag
- Chapter 8 Conclusions
- Timeline
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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