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A Night to Remember is a 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord that tells the story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic. Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster and drew on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written.
Frank John William Goldsmith (19 December 1902 — 27 January 1982), was a young third-class passenger of the RMS Titanic and a survivor of the sinking in 1912.He later wrote a book about his experiences on the ship, published posthumously as Echoes in the Night: Memories of a Titanic Survivor (1991), [1] which featured in the documentary, Titanic: The Complete Story (1994).
The Titanic could carry 3,547 people in speed and comfort, [3] and was built on an unprecedented scale. Her reciprocating engines were the largest that had ever been built, standing 40 feet (12 m) high and with cylinders 9 feet (2.7 m) in diameter, requiring the burning of 600 long tons (610 t) of coal per day.
For days, the world could only imagine the grim scene: ... It's why fewer people have been to Titanic ocean depths than have been to space. ... At Titanic depths, some 12,500 feet down, the water ...
Where is the Titanic wreck – and how far down is it? Titan’s main support ship returns to harbour. 13:30, Maryam Zakir-Hussain. The main support ship of the Titan submersible has returned to a ...
From 11 April to local apparent noon the next day, Titanic covered 484 nautical miles (557 mi; 896 km); the following day, 519 nautical miles (597 mi; 961 km); and by noon on the final day of the voyage, 546 nautical miles (628 mi; 1,011 km). From then until the time of sinking, the ship travelled another 258 nautical miles (297 mi; 478 km ...
Right now, the world is keeping a close watch on the final resting place of the Titanic, as a submersible—run by the company OceanGate Expeditions—that set out to explore the site remains missing.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks is a 1990 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.. The story deals with two groups, both of whom are attempting to raise one of the halves of the wreck of the Titanic from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in time for the sinking's centennial in 2012.