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Her Name Titanic
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Her Name Titanic (1990) (edit title/settings)

The Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship

by Charles Pellegrino (Author) (edit contributors)

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"NOT EVEN GOD HIMSELF COULD SINK THIS SHIP? On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic-the majestic queen of the White Star fleet-struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic. Seventy-three years later, a dedicated group... read more

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Harold Bride: the first telegrapher ever to use the "SOS" distress signal
  • Charles Lightoller: officer on the Titanic
  • Eva Hart: a little girl travelling to America with her parents on the Titanic
  • Rosa Abbott: passenger who solved the mystery of why so many of the lifeboats went into the water half-empty
  • Edith Russell: fashion correspondent
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Oceanographer who's inspired thousands to explore the ocean
  • Bob Ballard: explorer type guy working out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
  • Charles Pellegrino: A scientist like Ballard, mostly interested in space exploration and bugs
  • Walter Lord: the author of "A Night To Remember"
  • Thomas Andrews: Chief designer and builder of the Titanic.
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First Sentence edit see section history

The cradle lay in starlight.

Table of Contents edit see section history

TO DARE GOD
THE 70,000-TON SKY
THE ARGOSSEY
A FANCY-DRESS BALL IN DANTE'S HELL
THE EMBLEM OF DEATH AT SEA
KILLING JOKE
THE WEEPING DOLPHINS
A UNITY OF FEELING
HUMANITY
INFAMY
A FAMILY TRADITION
POPPING THE SUPERMAN BALLOON
AND THE STARS DID SPEAK
LIKE A COFFIN LONG AND NARROW
CAMP 4-H SINGS
SCARED TO DEATH
THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE
A PILOT'S STORY
INTRODUCING JACQUES COUSTEAU, TOME DETTWEILER, AND THE CANADIAN MAFIA
THE CRASH OIF TWO WORLDS
THE DISPPEARANCE OF ROBERT BALLARD
PHAETON RISING
HATCH OUT
MISSION TO DESTINY
AN UNNATRUAL CALM
THE GHOST UNDER THE GRAND BANKS
JJ AND THE PIT
RENDEZVOUS
DOUBLE ENCOUNTER
TRACE FOSSILS?
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
VERDICT ON THE GASH
VOICE FROM THE PAST
INTRODUCING EDITH RUSSELL'S PIG
WHAT MRS. ABBOTT SAW FROM THE STERN
OVER THE PANAMA BASIN: A VIEW FROM THE PILOT'S SEAT
HER NAME, "TITANIC"

AFTERWORD: WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?
THE "TITANIC'S" CARGO MANIFEST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Glossary edit see section history

  • The Cousteau Layer: Bob Ballard's term for the top 200 feet of the ocean
  • Bathyscaphe: An early submersible, basically an observation room suspended from a bag of buoyant gasoline
  • Bathysphere: a really early submersible, basically a hollow ball hung on a string
  • The Medusa Effect: the striking emotional effect of finally finding the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean: Robert Ballard went into seclusion for a while after the discovery, for instance

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Overconfidence: Daring the Fates or God to strike you down, specifically by declaring a human construction to be safe and even invincible, is the unmistakable theme here. Pellegrino compares the sinking of the "Titanic" to the "Challenger" explosion, for instance. Even he couldn't have foreseen the brutal irony of using the World Trade Center in a diagram to show the scale of the "Titanic" to it and to thedepth of the water the ship sank in.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Charles Pellegrino (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Avon
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0380708922
Page Count: 320

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Fine for young adults or the fully adult.

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Titanic: An Illustrated History
  • Ghosts of the Titanic
  • Titanic Survivor : The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
  • A Night to Remember
  • Graveyards Of The Pacific

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