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Title: The Last Log of the Titanic by David G. Brown ISBN: 0-07-141308-1 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A CRACKING GOOD READ
Comment: I first read this book in 2000 and found it to be one of the more plausible explanations of the damage suffered by TITANIC when she hit the berg, as well as what happened afterward. Captain Brown has brought what is so lacking in many TITANIC books into LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC--actual shiphandling experience.
Captain Brown had also produced an eminently readable text, one which I think most people will have little trouble understanding.
I cannot reccommend LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC too highly to everyone, TITANIC buff or not.
Rating: 5
Summary: Crazy About the Titanic
Comment: Wonderful book. Makes you think!! There is more than the Titanic than most people know.
Rating: 5
Summary: An exceptionally interesting analysis
Comment: Relying on his own experience of ships, David G. Brown has attempted both to reconstruct the last few pages of the Titanic's log and also to closely analyse the happenings of that night. His interpretation of the impact as being more akin to a grounding has the advantage of closely matching the actual observations of the persons on board that night, much more so than the "grazing collision" described universally elsewhere. Several years ago Walter Lord pointed out in his "The Night Lives On" that there was apparently lethal damage to the bottom of the ship, and Brown's analysis confirms this. Brown also usefully describes how ships actually handle and points out that First Officer Murdoch, just as he told Captain Smith immediately after the crash, tried to "port around" the berg - first putting on starboard helm to turn the bow away from the berg, then port helm to clear the ship's midsection and stern, explaining succinctly why the damage to the ship was limited to the first 200-300 feet. Brown also theorizes on the actual visibility from the crow's nest that night and suggests that the berg may have been sighted as a "dark mass" looming in the distance several minutes before it was seen to be an iceberg and suggests that First Officer Murdoch may have mistaken the "dark mass" for a safe path through ice. One suggestion Brown makes that I tend to disagree with is his contention that the Titanic had been manuevering through ice for some time before the impact. Even a gentle turn in a ship the size of the Titanic will cause the ship to heel noticably, particularly in a ship, like the Titanic, that lacks stabilizers. Passengers should have noticed the ship manuevering instead of maintaining a straight course, but there appears to be absolutely no testimony from anyone that night that the ship was doing anything other than steaming straight ahead. That, however, is a minor issue; this book is extremely interesting, a very valuable contribution to the literature on the subject, and I recommend it highly.
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Title: Ghosts of the Abyss: A Journey Into The Heart of the Titanic by Donald Lynch, Don Lynch, Ken Marschall, James Cameron ISBN: 0306812231 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy by Charles A. Haas, John P. Eaton ISBN: 0393036979 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Last True Story of Titanic by James G. Clary ISBN: 1583450122 Publisher: Domhan Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Titanic Story: Hard Choices, Dangerous Decisions by Stephen Cox ISBN: 0812693965 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Story of the Titanic as Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour ISBN: 0486206106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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