The Titanic's Last Hero: Story about John Harper
Moody Adams
Language: English
Pages: 158
ISBN: 0937422398
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Testimonies and tributes originally published in Scotland in 1912. Compiled and edited by John Climie at the request of John Harper's brother, George. Also published as: John Harper: a hero on the Titanic, 1997--t.p. verso.
edges capable of puncturing a ship’s hull Icebergs can tower above the sea like mountains, or lie flat on the water like frozen fields As chairman of the White Star Line, Bruce Ismay was in the odd position of being a passenger on board a ship he owned. It was Ismay’s influence that caused Captain Smith to accelerate through the icefield rather than slow down or stop for the night. 500 ft (150 m) JOURNEY OF AN ICEBERG The icebergs of the North Atlantic begin life in the glaciers of the polar
the lookout “It was as though we went over about a thousand marbles.” MRS. STUART J. WHITE, PASSENGER ON THE BRIDGE Although the bridge is the command headquarters of a ship, only four officers were on the Titanic’s bridge at the moment of impact. One other officer had just gone into the officers’ quarters, and Captain Smith was in his cabin, next to the wheelhouse. As three of these six officers subsequently lost their lives in the tragedy, it remains unclear exactly what happened in the
the Titanic, written by Haydon Augarde The Deathless Story of the Titanic, issued by Lloyds Weekly News, 1912 SILENT STAR One of the few survivors of the Titanic to prosper from the tragedy was the actress Dorothy Gibson, who was traveling first-class and escaped in one of the lifeboats. One month after the ship sank, she co-wrote and starred in a silent movie, Saved from the Titanic and went on to have a successful film career. The film was the first of many about the ship. Sheet music for The
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swivel chairs attached to the floor, a style of seating common in first-class dining rooms aboard most other liners of the time. Although the food was prepared in the same galley as the first-class meals, the second-class menu was simpler, but no less filling. 27 026-027_ew_titanic.indd 27 27 US_026-027_ew_titanic.indd 29/8/08 1/9/08 11:42:11 11:29:20 Third-class travel M 1,324 passengers on the DURABLE MATCHES Using every excuse to promote its name, the White