
- Title : The Last Log of the Titanic: What Really Happened on the Doomed Ship's Bridge?
- Author : David G. Brown
- Rating : 4.54 (940 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-1-12
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 234 Pages
- Asin : 0071364471
- Language : English
Yet most of what is commonly believed about that fateful night in 1912 is, at best, a body of myth and legend nurtured by the ship's owners and surviving officers and kept alive by generations of authors and moviemakers. The iceberg did not materialize unheralded from an ice-free sea; the Titanic
Yet most of what is commonly believed about that fateful night in 1912 is, at best, a body of myth and legend nurtured by the ship's owners and surviving officers and kept alive by generations of authors and moviemakers. The iceberg did not materialize unheralded from an ice-free sea; the Titanic was likely steaming at 22 1/2 knots through scattered ice, with no extra lookouts posted, for two hours or more before the fatal encounter. That, at least, is the thesis presented in this compellingly bold, thoroughly plausible contrarian reconstruction of the last hours of the pride of the White Star Line. Most startling of all, however, is evidence that the ship might have stayed afloat long enough to permit the rescue of all passengers and crew if Captain Smith, at the behest of his employer, Bruce Ismay, had not given the order to resume steaming. Offering a radically new interpretation of the facts surrounding the most famous shipwreck in history, The Last Log of the Titanic is certain to ignite a storm of controversy.. The new but no-less harrowing Titanic story that Captain David G. Nearly nine decades after the event, the sinking Coast Guard Master's License, 100 Gross Tons, with Commercial Assistance Towing and Auxiliary Sail endorsements, and teaches professional-level U.S. He has worked as a television news producer, and won an Emmy in 1979 for his coverage of the Agent Orange story. Coast Guard licensing courses. He was captain of a high-speed ferry serving the western Lake Erie islands and currently owns a harbor tour company on the Maumee River in Ohio. He also is an instructor for a firm specializing in safety risk assessment, crew training, and license instruction, builds epoxy-composite boats, and restores vintage wooden boats. This is his fifth book. David G. Brown holds a U.S. He writes monthly columns for Boating World and Offshore magazines and is a regular contributor to many other marine publications.
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