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TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS BOOK REVIEW...
'This book was amazing!!! Anthony Nicholas did a fabulous job, and once again, those who perished on the Titanic are brought to life through the pages of a book.
We learn about the crew, and their heroic efforts to save as many as possible, mistakes that were made, and the band that played as the ship slipped beneath the waves. It is in many ways a profound read that is going to take readers back in time, with a fascinating look at those on board, rather than the sinking of the vessel itself.
Highly recommend this book!'
Reviewer: Rebecca Hill
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer's rating: Five Stars
TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS. A book by Anthony Nicholas
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www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
208 pages. Seventeen chapters. Eight sides of black and white illustrations.
Global availability across e-book, hardback and kindle formats.
On sale from branches of Barnes and Noble, Wal- mart, Waterstones, and W.H. Smith.
Also available from Titanic Belfast, the Maritime Museum of The Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and via the Titanic Historical Society of Indian Orchard, Massachussetts.
Seventeen Five Star ratings across Amazon and Goodreads.
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SCHARNHORST...
A steel grey Tiger Shark, slicing through the icy chop of the North Sea at flank speed. Fully intent on severing the vital supply arteries that, alone, kept Great Britain alive and fighting in the darkest days of World War Two.
Nine eleven inch guns, housed in triple turrets faced with armour plating a full, fourteen inches thick. They wrought deadly work.
Her victims included an aircraft carrier, an armed merchant cruiser, two destroyers, and twenty-two British merchant ships. But she was always on borrowed time.
In February 1942, she led the desperate, daytime breakout from Brest that came to be known as the Channel Dash. Scharnhorst, with her sister ship, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen 'succeeded where the Spanish Armada failed' in a subsequent lead page editorial in The Times.
Ultimately, the Scharnhorst died as violently as she lived, lashing out desperately at a relentless steel ring of thirteen British and Norwegian warships that finally brought her to bay.
Reduced to a slowly sinking pile of blazing, bloody scrap, she and the great bulk of her brave, fallen crew now lie forever entombed beneath a thousand feet of freezing Arctic sea water, some ninety-three miles away from the North Cape of Norway...
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REVIEW FOR MY TITANIC BOOK...
'The author's style is engrossing and his descriptions can sometimes verge on the comedic, which helped make this book very enjoyable, easy to read and exceptionally informative.
Key Figures Aboard RMS Titanic is an absolute must read for anyone who has an interest in this modern day Flying Dutchman.
In my view if you want to read any book about Titanic this should be it.'
Official rating: Five Stars
Reviewer: Kirkz
Source: www.arrse.co.uk
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TITANIC: THE GRAND STAIRCASE...
'We leave the deck and pass through one of the doors which admit us to the interior of the vessel and, as if by magic, we at once lose feeling that we are on board a ship, and instead seem to be entering the hall of some great house on shore. Dignified and simple oak panelling covers the walls, enriched in a few places by a bit of elaborate carved work, reminiscent of the days when Grinling Gibbons collaborated with his great contemporary, Wren.
In the middle of the hall rises a gracefully curving staircase, its balustrade supported by light scrollworks of iron, with occasional touches of bronze, in the form of flowers and foliage. Above all a great dome of iron and glass throws a flood of light down the stairway, and on the landing beneath it a great carved panel gives its note of richness to the otherwise plain and massive construction of the wall. The panel contains a clock, on either side of which is a female figure, the whole symbolising Honour and Glory crowning Time. Looking over the balustrade, we see the stairs descending to many floors below, and on turning aside we find we may be spared the labours of mounting or descending by entering one of the smoothly gliding elevators which bear us quickly to any of the numerous floors of the ship we may wish to visit.
The staircase is one of the principal features of the ship, and will be greatly admired as being, no doubt, the finest piece of workmanship of its kind afloat.'
Text from White Star Line promotional brochure for S.S. Olympic and Titanic.
Modelling of the Grand Staircase is the work of Matthew LeWinkeler.
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WINTERWATCH...
The snowfall reminds me of swirls of confetti, caught in the blast of some kind of wind machine. The daytime skies are sometimes a kind of pale, Robin's egg shade of blue.
Other days are wreathed in a pale, pearly mist. The air is almost cold enough to taste. The weak, midwinter sunlight waxes and wanes in subdued, borderline sullen fits.
Twilight is a tremendous celestial canvas. Brush strokes of burnt orange, lilac, pink, purple and flaring umber float across the skyscape, before an early, smothering darkness steals down like a guillotine blade. The crisp carpet of gently undulating snow is speckled with little trails of foot and paw prints. The weak glimmer of the street lamps is borderline anaemic.
The silence is stirred by the sporadic whispering of a car, beetling past with headlights glowing. They look for all the world like maddened, scurrying beetles. The winter wind is as cold as a witche's caress...
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BELFAST, DECEMBER 1911...
As Christmas approaches and the six weeks' worth of repairs to Olympic after her mid September collision are finally finished, work on completing the Titanic ramps back up to full speed.
The first three of her funnels have now been stepped into place. Scaffolding around the top of Number Three funnel has been rigged, in preparation for installation of the funnel ladder and the dummy steam whistles than can be seen in place on the first, two stacks.
The Welin davits for the lifeboats, plus the boats themselves, are absent from the largely open Boat Deck. On the bow, the eight ton port and starboard side anchors have still to be reattached, but the anchor chains themselves are lowered down, almost to waterline level...
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NEVER A TRUER PHRASE UTTERED...
Mark Twain got this so right, so long ago. These words have lost none of their potency or power with the passage of time. I cannot better them, simply because they can not 'be' bettered, let alone contested.
You have to remember the world of travel as pioneers like Twain would have experienced it. There was no commercial air travel of any kind. The big ocean steamship was more of an interesting, intriguing possibity than a proven globe shrinker.
His was a world of paddle wheelers, thrashing up and down the muddy, majestic Mississippi.They were like tiered white wedding cakes, trailing twin, black ribbons of smoke while the passengers sat on rocking chairs.
Stagecoaches that rattled and shuddered at a bone shaking, bracing clip of knots through still hostile Indian country. Twain would surely have experienced that, too. It must have concentrated that magnificent mind of his quite wonderfully.
And yet, for all of that, the scale of his vision, and the sheer, sweeping sense of cogent thought and tolerance that his collective travel experiences fostered, is truly a thing of wonder. Inspiration in an indifferent age of instant, self indulgent gratification...
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TESTIMONY OF JOSEPH SCARROTT, TITANIC ABLE SEAMAN, BOAT FOURTEEN...
Boat Fourteen, made ready for lowering from the Titanic at about 0130 on the morning of April 15th, was the first boat to be rushed by a wave of desperate steerage passengers, surging up from down below.
At the British Inquiry into the disaster, held before Lord Mersey in May of 1912, an Able Seaman named Joseph Scarrott described the mayhem that ensued around that boat...
'I myself took charge of No. 14 as the only sailorman there. The Chief Officer (Henry Wilde) ordered women and children to be taken in. Some men came and tried to rush the boat. They were foreigners and could not understand the orders I gave them, but I managed to keep them away. I had to use some persuasion with the boat tiller. One man jumped in twice and I had to throw him out the third time. I got all the women and children into the boat. There were fifty- four women and four children- one of them a babe in arms. There were myself, two firemen, three or four stewards and (Fifth Officer) Mr. Lowe, who got into the boat. I told him the trouble I had with the men and he brought out his revolver and fired two shots and said: "If there is any more trouble, I will fire at them." The shots fired were between the boats and the ship's side...'
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TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS BOOK...
Titanic. Regal as the Ritz. A 20th century version of The Alamo, re-enacted on the Atlantic. A ship as proud as Pompeii, and every bit as imperilled.
Seventeen chapters of virtual engagement are like time travel set in print. You feel the chill of a night that is as cold as a banshee's breath. Hear the crack, hiss and roar of distress rockets, clawing at the starlit sky. See the pathetic handful of lifeboats, tottering down that floodlit, sagging flank in a series of random, convoluted jerks.
Meet the hopelessly embattled engineers in the tilting steel chasm of the engine room as they strive to stem the unstoppable. And the small, desperate cadre of ship's officers, struggling to save the huddled masses on deck, even as their own chances of salvation sink with every lowered lifeboat...
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ANTHONY WOOD FROST, TITANIC GUARANTEE GROUP...
Anthony Frost was an outside foreman engineer at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. In 1912, he was regarded as sufficiently capable to be head hunted by Thomas Andrews to become a member of the nine strong 'guarantee group' assembled to make the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
Hull born Anthony began working for Harland and Wolff at Belfast in 1888. He worked first as a machine boy, before becoming an apprentice the year after. In 1901 he became a leading hand, and was again promoted to outside foreman engineer when his father retired in 1907.
His 1901 marriage to Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Hamilton resulted in the birth of four children; Robert John, Walter Stanley, Marjorie Wood and Doreen Abernathy.
Regarded as extremely capable and able, Anthony went on to oversee the installation of the main power plants on both the Olympic and the Titanic. As part of the guarantee group on the ill starred maiden voyage of the latter ship, he was accommodated in a second class cabin.
Anthony Frost lost his life in the Titanic disaster. His body was never recovered...
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OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN ARRIVAL...
On the afternoon of June 21, 1911, the brand new Olympic rounds the 'knuckle' of Manhattan's Pier 59 at the triumphant conclusion of her maiden westbound crossing.
Some 1, 311 passengers had boarded the Olympic at Southampton, Cherbourg and Queenstown for the voyage. Among them was Joseph Bruce Ismay, Chairman of the White Star Line and Thomas Andrews, the chief architect for both Olympic and the upcoming Titanic. The big liner was under the command of Captain Edward Smith.
Despite some bad weather on the way over, the Olympic had proved herself to be a superb sea boat. Some paint has been stripped from her waterline by the speed she attained en route. The first bow lines can also be seen to have dropped in this shot.
Manhattan accorded the world's largest liner the usual noisy, triumphant firefloat and siren reception. But in an extraordinary snub, the Cunard liner Lusitania- bound downstream for the coronation celebrations for King George V- declined to join in with the choruses of salute to her new rival...
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WILLIAM PARR, BELFAST ENGINEER...
William Parr was twenty- nine years old when he sailed on the Titanic as a member of Thomas Andrews' nine man 'guarantee group'.
The group was on board to trouble shoot any minor technical teething glitches that might occur as the ship bedded down into commercial service. Like the other members of the group, Parr joined the Titanic for her speed and handling trials on April 2nd, 1912.
They stayed on board for the delivery voyage to Southampton, for the subsequent, week long sojourn in the Hampshire port and, ultimately, for the ill- fated maiden westbound crossing as well.
Parr was an integral part of the team, and he had supervised the installation of the electrical plants on both the Olympic and Titanic back at Belfast. His status in the group pecking order saw him lodged in a first class cabin.
William Parr would perish in the disaster with the rest of his workmates. His body was never recovered...
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EDWARD JOHN SMITH: SEAMAN OR SULTAN?
By the time that he left the Olympic to assume command of her younger sister, the Titanic, Edward John Smith was already idolised by generations of passengers and crewmen alike. His reputation, both as a sailor and a supremely skilled social scion, was stratospheric.
Like most seamen of his generation, Smith started out in the age of sail, when most ships were still at the mercy of the whims of wind and wave. They spent as much time in oilskins as the rest of the crew. They felt- quite literally- the banshee's breath of an icy breeze and the sting of spray alike.
This gave them a keen appreciation of the awesome forces of nature, which they regarded with a wary sense of reverence. They were all too keenly aware that the natural elements could snuff out their lives as easily as a candle.
The steamship changed all that. Suddenly unshackled from dependence on the elements, these ships could now maintain a reasonably reliable schedule whatever the weather.
Bridges now rose many levels above those decks of old. They became enclosed, heated, and hushed as cathedrals. Ivy towers that engendered a level of detachment from the elements; a kind of dangerous disconnect that fostered an air of self satisfied, faux security.
Over years of mostly safe, uneventful sailings, this feeling of omnipotence, of hegemony over the once all powerful forces of nature, spread like some kind of sleeping sickness.
And even men as suave and savvy as Edward John Smith bought into this over time. It crowded into every corner of his consciousness to form the new, fatally flawed framework of his reasoning.
One cold, dark April night, it all fell down in around thirty-seven tremendous, spine chilling seconds...
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THOMAS W. McCAWLEY, TITANIC GYM INSTRUCTOR...
Thirty -six year old, Aberdeen born Thomas McCawley poses on the rowing machine, located in the gymnasium aboard the Titanic.
A surviving Second Class passenger, Lawrence Beesley, recalled McCawley as 'a ruddy cheeked, spry little man in white flannels' in his subsequent book. Truth be told, we know very little else about the man.
We do know that McCawley had previously worked as the gym instructor on board the Olympic. At the time, his registered address was Camden Place, Southampton.
Prior to this, Thomas had spent some time out in Cape Town. He returned to Great Britain from Durban, arriving in Southampton on January 13th, 1912. He probably transferred directly to the Olympic on arrival.
Thomas McCawley then joined the Titanic at Belfast on April 1st, one day before she began her truncated sea trials.
On the night of the disaster, Thomas re-opened the gym to allow passengers to wait for the boats in the warm, brightly lit room. He reportedly told other people in the room that he would not wear a life preserver, as it would slow down his ability to swim.
Thomas McCawley died in the sinking. His body was never recovered.
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CAPTAIN ARTHUR ROSTRON- 'THE ELECTRIC SPARK'...
One of the true, unsung heroes of the Titanic story, Arthur Rostron's actions on the night of April 14-15, 1912 were the prime factor in saving all 705 survivors from the lost liner.
He managed to con his ship, the 12,000 ton Cunarder Carpathia, at full tilt through a veritable devil's garden of darkened, floating mayhem.
Field ice, capsized growlers, small chunks and glistening, brooding brutes of all shapes and sizes littered the fifty- eight mile helter-skelter that the Carpathia had to navigate. Literally shaking and shuddering from the exertions of steaming at a rate of knots well in excess of her design speed, the Carpathia was the only hope for the huddled human wreckage, shivering in the open lifeboats bobbing up and down on that freezing, starlit ocean...
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