Books with author Logan Marshall

Dr. Van Dyke's Spiritual Consolation to the Survivors of the Titanic The Titanic, greatest of ships, has gone to her ocean grave. What has she left behind her? Think clearly. She has left debts. Vast sums of money have been lost. Some of them are covered by insurance which will be paid. The rest is gone. All wealth is insecure. She has left lessons. The risk of running the northern course when it is menaced by icebergs is revealed. The cruelty of sending a ship to sea without enough life-boats and life-rafts to hold her company is exhibited and underlined in black.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters CHAPTER I. FIRST NEWS OF THE GREATEST MARINE DISASTER IN HISTORY "THE TITANIC IN COLLISION, BUT EVERYBODY SAFE"--ANOTHER TRIUMPH SET DOWN TO WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY--THE WORLD GOES TO SLEEP PEACEFULLY--THE SAD AWAKENING. LIKE a bolt out of a clear sky came the wireless message on Monday, April 15, 1912, that on Sunday night the great Titanic, on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, had struck a gigantic iceberg, but that all the passengers were saved. The ship had signaled her distress and another victory was set down to wireless. Twenty-one hundred lives saved! Additional news was soon received that the ship had collided with a mountain of ice in the North Atlantic, off Cape Race, Newfoundland, at 10.25 Sunday evening, April 14th. At 4.15 Monday morning the Canadian Government Marine Agency received a wireless message that the Titanic was sinking and that the steamers towing her were trying to get her into shoal water near Cape Race, for the purpose of beaching her. Wireless despatches up to noon Monday showed that the passengers of the Titanic were being transferred aboard the steamer Carpathia, a Cunarder, which left New York, April 13th, for Naples. Twenty boat-loads of the Titanic's passengers were said to have been transferred to the Carpathia then, and allowing forty to sixty persons as the capacity of each life-boat, some 800 or 1200 persons had already been transferred from the damaged liner to the Carpathia. They were reported as being taken to Halifax, whence they would be sent by train to New York.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters was written by a journalist called Logan Marshall soon after the disaster. The book is therefore based on interviews and eye-witness accounts soon after they were rescued and is a must read for anyone who is interested in this disaster. The book tells the stories of those who survived in the water or in life-boats until the arrival of the RHS Carpathia to rescue them, and then the tremendous welcome in New York City a few days later. This book is a new publication, but does not contain any of the pictures in the original.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disaters, by Logan Marshall, provides a very detailed account of what led to the sinking of the Titanic and it also comes with accounts of other major disasters at sea.Written in the year when the Titanic sank and published in 1912, only two years after the tragedy, when the author could have access not only to the documents about the disasters, but he could also interview disaster's survivors, the accounts provide not only interpretations of the documents available, but also first-hand accounts from the survivors. The author had access to the maps, diagrams, even photos linked to the tragedy, and therefore his account of the tragedy is not only detailed, but also backed up with an extensive amount of data and therefore very accurate as well.The Titanic, as probably most readers know before they even touch this book, was the world's largest and most luxurious ship at the time it was launched in 1912. The huge passenger liner carrying 2,300 people on board set off on its first journey from Southampton to New York on 10th of April 1912, but only 4 days after she left the port, early in the morning of 15th of April 1912 she collided with an iceberg and sank, causing the death of almost 1,500 people - there were only 705 survivors of the tragedy.The causes that led to the tragedy included human error, greed as well as negligence and Logan Marshall's great, almost novel-like narrative enriched with stone-hard facts reveals both the human and the technical side of the disaster. It also sets off to dispel numerous myths that developed around the ship and its catastrophe and does an excellent job providing an account of how the survivors processed the event from an emotional point of view.

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