Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic

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Excerpt from Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest Disaster, a Graphic and Thrilling Amount of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever Built, Carrying Down to Watery Graves More Than 1, 500 Souls, Giving Exciting Ecapes From Death and Acts of Heroism Now Equalled in Ancient OAS the Titanic drew away from the wharf to begin her only voyage, a common emotion quickened the thou sands who were aboard her. Grimy slaves who worked and withered deep down in the glaring heat of her boiler rooms, on her breezy decks men of achievement and fame and millionaire pleasure seekers for whom the boat provided countless luxuries, in the steerage hordes of emigrants huddled in straited quarters but with their hearts fired for the new free land of hope, these, and also he whose anxious office placed him high above all - charged with the keeping of all of their lives - this care-furrowed captain on the bridge, his many-varied passengers, and even the remotest menial of his crew, experienced alike a glow of triumph as they faced the unknown dangers of the deep, a triumph born of pride in'the enormous, wonderful new ship that carried them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.