The Riddle Of The Titanic

by Dan Van Der Vat (Author), Robin Gardiner (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the man at the helm when the Titanic hit the iceberg packed off to South Africa? Why did her reluctant Chief Officer 'still' feel uneasy about a ship on which he had never sailed before? Why did one of her stewards 'wish the bally ship at the bottom of the sea'? It was not only the sea that covered up the Titanic ...

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.20

  A re-examination of the mysteries surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, with some startling new theories about the ship itself,it's sister ship the accident prone Olympic,the owners White Star and J.P.Morgan the financier controlling it.