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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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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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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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THE FOUR SURVIVING TITANIC OFFICERS...
In this unique historical snapshot the four, surviving senior officers of the Titanic pose for an image truly destined for the annals of posterity.
From feft to right we see Fith Officer Harold Lowe, Second Officer Charles Lightoller, Third Officer Herbert Pitman seated below Lightoller, and Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall on the far right.
As a junior officer, Lowe left the Titanic in Boat Fourteen at around 0130. He would later organise the most comprehensive and determined rescue effort of survivors left in the water after the ship sank.
Second Officer Lightoller supervised the loading and lowering of the port side lifeboats. He was still on the ship when she sank, but was washed clear. He managed to subsequently swim to a capsized, half submerged collapsible boat. Along with twenty-two others he stood on the upturned hull until another boat took them aboard.
Herbert Pitman was ordered by First Officer Murdoch to take charge of Boat Five. It left the Titanic at 0043 that night, with around thirty-six people on board. The boat and its occupants were eventually picked up by the Carpathia at about 0600 on the same morning.
Joseph Boxhall was ordered to take charge of Boat Two, which left the Titanic at 0145. The forty-seat boat contained just eighteen souls. It was the first boat to be sighted by the onrushing Carpathia at around 0400 that morning.
Their fellow officers- Chief Officer Henry Wilde, First Officer William Murdoch, and Sixth Officer James Moody, as well as Captain Edward Smith himself-were lost with the ship.
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TITANIC'S OFFICERS; PAST LESSONS, RESURFACED...
In previous posts that touched on topics covered in my book, we considered the appalling predicament and pressures that were the lot of the ship's officers on that fateful night.
Here, I want to expand on that in two, particular cases. Namely, Second Officer Charles Lightoller and the young Sixth Officer, James Moody.
Lightoller's life had already been a roller-coaster by the time he came to the Titanic, at the age of 38.
He ran away to sea at the age of 13. When he was 14, Lightoller was working on a sailing ship called the Holt Hill. Storm damage obliged the ship to put into Rio for repairs. At that time, the city was in the midst of both a revolution and a smallpox epidemic.
In 1889, the Holt Hill was wrecked on an island in the Indian Ocean in an accident that killed her first mate. Lightoller and the other survivors were marooned ashore for eight days. He was just 15.
In 1898, a bout of malaria almost ended him. He tried his luck as a rodeo rider in Calgary, and as a gold prospector in the Yukon. When these failed to pan out he rode across Canada by rail, hobo style, and hitched a ride on a steamer bound back to Great Britain.
"All of the horrors at sea seem to happen at night..."
Thus wrote James Moody, soon to be Sixth Officer of the Titanic, in a letter home to his sister, Margaret. After the early death of his mother, he went to sea at the age of 15.
The specific horror he was hinting at was an accident on board the Boadicea, a sailing ship he was seconded to.
One day, three of the ship's sails were torn away in a storm. Soon after, one of the crewmen fell from the topmast during a storm. He landed on the deck, next to where Moody was standing. He died the next day...
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WHAT COMES BACK...
In writing 'Titanic; Superstars and Scapegoats' I tried to create something best perhaps described as a level of informed empathy.
All of the individuals and groups I write about had families, fears and flaws. They were not supermen. Yet they were confronted with a supreme test of courage and selflessness that any normal person would have buckled and broken under.
I tried to evaluate how their previous life experiences fuelled key decisions made, and how those same experiences played out in their actions that night. Confronted with a raft of sobering, selfless acts of gallantry, I was left both saddened and stunned.
Andrews. Bride and Phillips. Lightoller. Moody, Murdoch and all the rest. I felt the heft and weight of their collective gaze quite keenly. Things had to be set out as clearly, as concisely and, above all, as fairly as my abilities would allow.
This was not an easy book to write. Nor should it have been. For this is not 'Jack' and 'Rose'. These were very real people. They had aspirations. Dreams. Hopes. All of them scythed down in short order, for the most part.
In a very real sense, this is not 'my' book at all; it is theirs. It is all the dedication I can devote to those desperately embattled, twentieth century Spartans of the RMS Titanic...
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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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TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS BOOK; VIOLET JESSOP...
Argentinian born Violet Jessop became a first class stewardess with the White Star Line.
Incredibly, she would survive not only the 1911 ramming of the Olympic by HMS Hawke, but also the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the subsequent wartime loss of the third of the 'Olympic Class' liners- the Britannic- in November of 1916.
On the Titanic, Violet was ordered into Boat Sixteen. As it prepared to leave the ship, she was handed a bundle by the young Sixth Officer, James Moody, with the words; 'Here- take this.'
The bundle contained a small baby...
Next morning, after being rescued by the Carpathia, Violet was nursing the baby when the child's hysterical mother turned up, and snatched the baby away without a single word.
You can read the full, truly remarkable story of Violet Jessop in the chapter of my book entitled 'Ladies, Lift Operators and Postal Clerks: Unsung and Largely Unremembered'...
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