A Night to Remember (Illustrated Edition)

232 pp. 10 x 7 1/2. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams, drawings, and reproductions of historical documents. "She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks. Sought help in vain." CONTENTS: Foreword; Another Belfast Trip; There's Talk of an Iceberg, Ma'am; God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship; You Go and I'll Stay a While; I Believe She's Gone, Hardy; That's the Way of It at This Kind of Time; There Is Your Beautiful Nightdress Gone; It Reminds Me of a Bloomin' Picnic; We're Going North Like Hell; Go Away -- We Have Just Seen Our Husbands Drown; Facts About the Titanic; Acknowledgements; Passenger List.