These colour and black & white posters commemorate the Titanic and one of the world's greatest maritime disasters in 1912. There are newspaper cuttings, famous photographs and posters advertising its departure on that ill-fated journey. These images are ready to frame and hang in your home.
It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year-old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was wrong. For Stoker Fred Barrett, shovelling coal down below, it was somewhat different; the side of the ship where he was working caved in. For the next nine hours, Jack, Eva and Fred faced death and survived. They lived, along with just over 700 others picked up by 08.30 the next morning. Over 1500 people did not. This is the story of Jack, Eva, Fred and over a hundred others of those who survived and either wrote their experiences down or appeared before the major enquiries held subsequently.
100 years later, the tragedy of the Titanic continues to fascinate and awe people worldwide. This book gives an insight into the creation, launch and voyage of the most famous ship in the world. Immerse yourself in the facts, figures and theories of this fascinating time in history, along with wonderful pictures.
In April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg, the cruise ship RMS Titanic sank into the North Atlantic Ocean, in one of the most notorious disasters in world history. A new scientific expedition is about to expire one of the most distant and dangerous archaeological sites on Earth. Located four kilometres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, new advances in marine technology are about to shed light on one of the most alluring wrecks in our history. This special one-hour programme documents an unprecedented August 1996 research and recovery expedition, during which a section of the Titanic's hull is raised, briefly, before returning to the ocean floor.
Build your own RMS Titanic with this amazing book! Where was the Titanic constructed? Why did it sink? What is the wreck like today? Find the answers to these questions and much, much more between the covers of this fact-packed book!
Then simply press out the card pieces and follow the step-by-step instructions to put together your very own model!
On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew his fianc
The tragic story of the sinking of the great passenger liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14 April 1912 by historians, novelists and film producers alike. No accounts, however, are as graphic or revealing as those from the passengers and crew that survived its maiden voyage. Through survivors' tales and contemporary newspaper reports from both sides of the Atlantic, here are eyewitness accounts full of details that range from poignant to humorous, from the liner's glorious launch in Belfast to the sombre sea burial services of those who perished.
Awakened by the shuddering of a huge iceberg puncturing the side of the ship, Colonel Archibald Gracie was quickly dressed and on deck to see the aftermath of what was to become the most famous collision in history. The night of 14 April 1912 had seen him go to bed early in his first-class cabin abroad the world's most luxurious ship, but by morning he was standing atop an overturned lifeboat awaiting rescue from the frozen North Atlantic. The night's exertions were to have a hug effect on him and he sat down to write the story of the tragic events soon after he was back on dry land, completing the task in the autumn of 1912. Telling the story of the last few hours of the sinking ship, and his miraculous escape as she plummeted to the ocean floor 14, 000 ft below, Gracie's book is recognised as simply the best account of the disaster. He died in December 1912 before the proofs were completed, but The Illustrated Truth about the Titanic remains today, however, the most accurate of all the eyewitness accounts recounting Gracie's own story as well as that of each of the lifeboats as they left the doomed Titanic.
The Story of the Titanic provides a unique and compelling insight into the life of the magnificent vessel by charting the greatest of all maritime disasters from the initial concept and the excitement of her first voyage to the dramatic collision and sinking, culminating with recent investigations and salvage mission. Complete with over 100 photographs, which take you from the glamorous ballrooms and restaurants down to the submerged grandeur of the wreck.
100 years on from the loss of the supposedly unsinkable White Star Line vessel, interest in the history of the ship, its passengers and crew, and its ill-fated maiden voyage remains intense whilst the wreck continues its inexorable decay at the bottom of the North Atlantic. From its launch through to its tragic demise following a collision with an iceberg, it's all here in this superbly illustrated bookazine and postcard pack. Packed full of archive photographs and newspaper clippings which tell the story in words and pictures of the ship that has held us enthralled since its sinking in 1912.