Titanic: The Story About The Unsinkable Ship by Henry Freeman

Titanic: The Story About The Unsinkable Ship Reviews

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  Sumit RK

  A concise summary of the Titanic. While there were some interesting new insights, particularly related to the ship interior design and the stories around specific passengers, most of the material was already known. Surprisingly, the actual part about the sinking & the reasons behind it are barely covered in the book. Because the book is so short, it provides scant backup for the ultimate claim that the likely cause of the sinking was bad luck rather than errors by the crew and design/fabrication flaws in the ship itself (Many studies have proven otherwise).
  The writing style is fluid and the book is an easy read. Recommended if you are looking for a quick review or study of the topic. Otherwise, you can find more detailed knowledge about the Titanic on Titanic’s Wikipedia page.
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  Gary

  This is a great little freebie off Amazon. This series has books that cover the history of key events and famous people throughout history. The books are approximately 50 pages long and give a brief history of the subject which in some cases is quite enough. Gives insight into the person or event and you can always get a more detailed book if that's what you desire. Reasonably priced and quite a few free so I am happy to learn a little about things I feel I ought to know more about.
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  Anna {Follow me for reviews!}

  I'm currently in an obsession about the Titanic so it was hard not to love this one. It was also written in a way that was enjoyable to read, and while I didn't learn much new information the stuff that was there was still neat to reread. Also I appreciated that it was a short book yet with important details so that if I wanted to reference a few of the Titanic facts they'd be easy to find. A good book for anyone who loves the Titanic.
  
  "Finally, many people view the undersea wreckage as a kind of gravesite or memorial to the people who lost their lives. Moving it would be akin to digging up the bodies. The wreckage is actually protected by United Nations law, much as other historical sites are similarly protected."
  Personally I am glad that it hasn't been pulled up from under the waves. I think it should belong there for a remembrance. It's like a memorial grave for those who died. 🚢
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  Stephanie (Bookfever)

  I really enjoyed reading this story about the RMS Titanic, the so-called 'Unsinkable Ship.' Everyone is the world has got to know the story of the Titanic that sank in 1912 but there's always a whole lot more to learn about it and its dramatic voyage. That's why it was such a good read.
  
  My favorite chapters were about the ship setting sail and especially the chapter of 'Passengers.' It contained a lot of information both about well known survivors and the ones who perished with the ship. The aftermath was also pretty interesting to read about, I must say.
  
  It was also interesting to read about when the Titanic got rediscovered in 1985 by Robert Ballard. Because of this we know so much more about the ship that was a mystery before. I also liked how this book delved into the subject of why this disaster is the one that is most memorable. Very intriguing!
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  J. Alchem

  Great read.
  
  This book has proper details about the Titanic, its passengers, its history and the event when it had sunk completely. I loved how every detail was presented. Surely a book you must not miss if you love Titanic.
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  emilin

  i never usually read non-fiction, but i think i might start. this was really interesting and easy to read. really enjoyed it. didn't learn anything too big and new but good nevertheless.
  
  read for the 52 book challenge #8. A Book In The 900s Of The Dewey Decimal System
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  Marija

  Titanic
  
  An interesting non fiction story. Short but full of information about one of the most famous ship. I finished it in one sitting.
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  Katherine

  As the title suggests, the book is about RMS Titanic that sank on her maiden voyage. Built along with two other famous vessels named Olympic and Britannic, Titanic was as known as the unsinkable ship. This book talks about a number of rumors encompassed with the disturbing buzz of haunting curses and superstitions. Titanic sank on the early hours of 15th april but its devastation begun on the night of 14th april. However even before it set sail, did you know the ship was responsible for loss of lives ?
  
  Reading about Titanic is never easy. It was and still is tragic and gut wrenching. The loss of lives in this tragedy was beyond imagination. The author also stated that sinking of this enormous vessel was not in vain in fact because of this, several disaster prevention rules and regulations came into effect which were helpful in the future voyages.
  
  
  This book was utterly emotional, cataloging the beginning of beautifully epic voyage to the rising panic which ultimately ended with a loss of so many lives.
  
  Although there are various movie and tv series adaptations,documentaries are out there, i feel that this book took different approach. Not only there were unknown facts that i didn't even thought existed but it also stated how some of the survivors helped in the future and saw this as a life changing event. I would highly recommend it.
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  Tania

  A concise history of the Titanic disaster. This is only really an overview of what happened that night, but it manages to get in a lot of information considering its length. There are lots more of these potted histories available, and many of them are free, so I plan on having a look through the list and trying a few out.
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  Mary Eve

  It's an hour of Titanic history - the basics. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  Anita Hargreaves

  Informative
  
  This book contains a lot about The Titanic I was unaware of and gives information on why the ship failed on impact and unaware the married owners of Maceys refused to leave each other and chose to die together. Very sad.
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  Udit Nair

  Titanic that has clearly resonated with people through its one hundred year history; it is realistic to assume that her story will continue to stand the test of time.
  It was perceived that even god cannot sink this ship. But nature in the form of iceberg had different plans. This story remains relevant today when we human species constantly test the limits of the nature through our technological might.
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  Claire (Book Blog Bird)

  ***Lockdown Book 1***
  A short, interesting précis of the Titanic, including a background on the White Star Line, notable people on board and the background of the ship itself. Plus it only took 45 minutes to read.
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  Thom Swennes

  When somebody thinks of passenger liners, the name Titanic comes to mind. What makes (aside from the fact that it sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York) so memorable? The size and expense (7.5 million British Pounds) and the fact that it was believed to be unsinkable. With the turn of the century, many new innovations were being developed and added to make this and her two sister ships the most luxurious in the world.
  The Titanic was first conceived in 1907. The White Star Line commissioned the building of three ships, RMS Olympic, RMS Titanic, and RMS Britannic. They were ordered by White Star Line that was controlled by the International Mercantile Marine Company which was partially owned by J.P. Morgan, the infamous American banker. The ships were built in Belfast, Ireland by the firm Harland and Wolff and met all the specifications required.
  Most people think of the unforgettable 1997 love story Titanic, directed by James Cameron. The story does paint a good, if not a completely accurate picture of the ship and what the different classes would experience on this maiden voyage. I have always found ships (and shipwrecks) fascination and the Titanic is no different. I have read other, more detailed accounts of the building and sinking of this ship. This, however, gives the reader a bird’s eye view of a great ship and its untimely demise.
  After reading accounts of this disaster, one could conclude that hitting the iceberg was due to very bad luck, but one of the major contributing factors for the large numbers of causalities would be the insufficient number of lifeboats and the ineptitude of the crew in an emergency. The only sea trial, done a couple of weeks earlier, only lasted a day and didn’t include emergency drills.
  
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  Pritam Chattopadhyay

  No other catastrophe in history could have been more effortlessly avoided or was more inescapable, and it is this ostensible contradiction that runs through the entire story. A chain of events and decisions that began years before the Titanic was even built, and ending only seconds before she struck the iceberg, led to that deadly “convergence of the twain.”
  
  And had any one of them been altered, the whole disaster, or at least the appalling loss of life, might have been averted.
  
  Nevertheless, each event, each decision relentlessly led to the next until the ship lay at the bottom of the ocean and had taken fifteen-hundred lives with it. The Titanic’s second officer, Charles Herbert Lightoller, would testify later how a once-in-a-lifetime combination of weather and sea conditions came together to make the iceberg nearly invisible to the ship’s lookouts.
  
  Yet by the time she collided with the berg, the Titanic was deep inside an icefield she had received no less than six warnings about that same day—the last one, which was rudely cut off, had come less than an hour before the collision.
  
  Harland and Wolff, as well as all who collaborated on the construction of the Titanic, spared no expense in making sure that it was the most luxurious vessel on the water, and they certainly earned the nickname “the ship of dreams.” Once complete, she was not only massive, but incredibly impressive and luxurious. The Titanic boasted more than 800 staterooms and eleven decks outfitted in opulent style and comfort. Even third class accommodations surpassed the competition.
  
  The ship complied with every safety regulation on the books, but carried enough lifeboats for only half the people on board her that night—only a third of her total volume—and many of those left the ship only partly filled, due mainly to the belief held by so many passengers, even when the Titanic was already sinking, that she was unsinkable.
  
  The officers in charge of the lifeboats were instructed that women and children would have first priority in the boats, yet almost half of the survivors would be men.
  
  Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship by Henry Freeman charts in brief the History of the ship’s creation as well as the disastrous fate it met. The book has been divided into seven chapters:
  
  1) Conceiving of and Building the Titanic
  2) “The Ship of Dreams”
  3) Setting Sail
  4) The Passengers
  5) The Iceberg and the Sinking
  6) The Aftermath
  7) The Titanic Remembered and Re-Discovered
  
  Titanic was lost at a time when predispositions were an accepted fact of life, class discrepancies were abruptly drawn and harshly enforced, “egalitarianism” was just an obscure word in the dictionary, the “white man’s burden” was still being shouldered, and the sun of the Pax Britannica hadn’t yet set.
  
  Whether the opinions, insolences, and philosophies of this era were eventually right or wrong is inconsequential: what is indispensable is to reminisce that at the time they were accepted as valid, and people’s actions were determined by that validity.
  
  Some things, though, never change. Bravery, altruism, meeting death with dignity are unchallengeable. So are spinelessness, conceit, and foolhardiness.
  
  These qualities were all present in those aboard the Titanic the night she sank.
  
  This 76 ge book tells the story of the Titanic, exhibiting the share of blunderers, incompetents, cowards, and even a villain or two.
  
  But more important is the story of the heroes, the men and women who rose above themselves by word or deed, who deserve to be remembered.
  
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  Suzanne

  I do like these Hourly reads .. There are lots of interesting topics to choose from and this one caught my attention. Providing information that was new to me in a concise, well written format was exactly what I was looking for. Enough detail and statistics to be very interesting, without going into minutae. Whether I would want to read more about this tragic event, I remain unsure .. perhaps an account from a survivor would be my preference ..
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  Maryline M's Bookshelf

  A wonderfully compelling read about one of history's most iconic moments. This book tells the story about Titanic in just a couple of easy to read chapters, while still giving a detailed account of events. It also, very successfully, paints a picture of the society of that time - a socio-economic backdrop that explains the tragedy, its aftermath and events leading up to it. Deeply moving. Highly recommended.
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  Lilly B

  Much more of a narrative than a micro history - there are some relatively unknown pieces of information in here, but anyone with a more than surface level knowledge of the titanic will probably know almost everything in here already. Also, as with other titles in the same series, the recounting of the history is massively compromised by personal opinion of the author, who believes that the sinking was down to purely bad luck - all discussion of cost cutting, treatment of staff and third class passengers that led to unsafe conditions, and rescue attempt failures, are mentioned very briefly with no critical analysis whatsoever. Give it a miss!
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  Jen

  I find history very interesting. I have always been curious about information on the Titanic so I found some things in this book that I had not heard before. Short read but provided a lot of information one may not have known.
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  Jo Morley

  Short book, easily digestible. I sort of knew the ending already.
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  Paige E.

  I could learn about the titanic all day long and not get bored
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  Steven

  This book was an easy to read history lesson on the story of the Titanic and its tragic sinking. I've read several books on the Titanic, but I found I was still able to learn a few new things from this read. Overall, this was an enjoyable read for a history buff. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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  Gareth

  Another great One Hour History book. I bought this hoping to get a brief overview of the Titanic to see if I would be interested in reading a more detailed book and it didn't disappoint. Very well researched and written, this is a concise and accurate description of the Titanic disaster, a few new things that I haven't seen on tv etc and has piqued my interest to go further. Very good.
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  Young Kim

  I wanted to give it 6 stars if it were possible.
  
  (Hourly History, "Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship," Kindle Ed., 2016, pp. 5-6)
  ...her completion was delayed when Olympic needed unscheduled repairs. While speculation in history is never rock-solid, it is reasonable to think that had the Titanic been launched on schedule, she may not have hit the iceberg...Regardless, there were some people who believed that this ship, and any ship, should carry more lifeboats – though they were ignored. In addition, the watertight doors were a much-boasted safety feature, which was one of the reasons that the ship (and others like it at the time) was thought to be “unsinkable.” However, the Titanic was actually not equipped with the most up-to-date technology in this respect. Water was able to breach these doors and flood the entire ship. Had the technology to prevent this from happening been employed (some Cunard ships had installed it), it is within the realm of possibility that the ship could have been saved, and more likely that the Carpathia would have reached the Titanic in time to save all of her passengers.
  
  I'm not surprised. This is our world today...with the most reasonable voices for the long-term safety and liberty ignored under the customs and profits right before our eyes. People like Ben Franklin or Lee Sunshin must be weeping under the ground.
  
  The book is like a report for posterity, and it certainly has some good value trying to remember those who have been forgotten after perishing during the disaster.
  
  It introduces some of the irony of the tragic event; the book is intriguing to read while making the readers think and imagine as if we were the ones in that tragic stor'y.
  
  The book is ver'y en-/ in-form'at-ive. From the beginning, the book does make the readers think with an "Ah!"
  
  The following line is what I like the most about this book:
  (Kindle Ed., p. 5)
  ...Titanic actually claimed her first victims long before April 1912: eight died during construction, and twenty-eight severe injuries were recorded. More than 240 people were hurt in total.
  
  (Ibid., pp. 41-45)
  ...the Carpathia was steaming toward the site of the wreckage. A telegraph operator had awoken Captain Arthur Henry Rostron when he received the distress signal. Rostron, was also a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, immediately ordered a reply and turned his vessel in the Titanic’s direction. The Carpathia was a ship of the Cunard line, which he was sailing from New York back to Europe. However, in such a disaster, with lives at stake, it would not have mattered to any captain what company they worked for; the code that governed seafarers dictated that distress signals always be answered...The Titanic passengers did not die in vain. As a result of the tremendous loss of life, international regulations were passed regarding lifeboats, telegraphs and communication, and ice. All ships would be required to carry enough lifeboats, crew would be trained to use them and evacuate, and passengers would have a drill so that they knew where to go and when in the event of a disaster (which anyone who has taken a cruise is well aware). Also, it was mandated that telegraph machines and later, other forms of communication, be manned 24-hours a day (had someone been at the telegraph machine on the California, they would have confirmed the emergency). Finally, patrols were set up to better survey ice fields and warn vessels about dangerous areas.
  
  That's the way for our United Humanity.
  
  The book has only a couple of minor errors to be edited boasting its near-complete quality for a first edition:
  (Kindle Ed., p. 16)
  ...After the crew, third class passengers boarded, for a few of reasons...
  
  Correction: ...for a few reasons...
  
  (Ibid., p. 36)
  ...the delay cost many their lives...
  
  Correction: ...many of their lives...
  
  Again, like I've mentioned in my reviews after reading his "Black Death" and "Spanish Flu," I think the author has his expertise in med'ic-al sector, not in hi-stor'y; they sometimes overlap with each other though, like this book.
  
  This kind of accident report, especially finding out the causes of the accident to assess the causes of the victims' symptoms or deaths, are their forte, which gives this book more credit and higher value.
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  Tammy (Wyse) Schoch

  A short but thorough story about all things Titanic. I dedicate this 4 star rating to my 7 year old grandson, who has been obsessed with the Titanic since age 3. His obsession remains as strong as ever. 🚢
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  Joyce

  48 pages
  
  5 stars
  
  This is a short and succinct telling of some details about the Titanic and the sinking of the ship. It is very brief, but manages to hit most of the highlights and concerns that have been brought up since the sinking 109 years ago this month. It also touches on some of the most rampant conspiracy theories.
  
  I truly enjoyed this quick read.
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  Eileen Carter

  Good book
  
  The titanic is a ship that is well known, especially since the movie in 1997. The information given in this book goes deeper than the movie but still just skims the surface of the information. Those reading this book will enjoy the way it is written and the facts given.
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  Doina Condrea

  I read this book because I share others’ fascination with the Titanic. This book actually explained that fascination in a way that I think made sense.
  Plus, in honour of Titanic II set to sail in 2022.
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  Felicia

  Fantastic! Once I started I couldn't put it down. It's a short read but was able to cover everything i think & all though some of the facts were well known, there was quite a few new things i learned as well. I would definitely recommend this!
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  Coyney

  Absolutely brilliant, really interesting