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A fascinating look at the making of the Titanic in vivid, colorful detail When she set sail from Southampton on her doomed maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, theRMS Titanic was the jewel in the crown of the White Star Line. A floating palace weighing nearly 50,000 tons, she was the largest and most technologically advanced moving object in the world. Titanic spent barely five days at sea, but a skilled workforce of thousands had toiled for years--amid long, hard, and often dangerous conditions--building the ship in a remarkable feat of design and engineering. As Anton Gill shows in this lavishly illustrated book, the story of Titanics construction is also the story of these dedicated men and women. Riveters risked deafness from hammering millions of rivets that held together the enormous steel hull; engineers had the gargantuan task of fitting engines to power the massive liner across the Atlantic at 23 knots; electricians installed state-of-the-art communications systems and enormous steam-driven generators; and carpenters, cabinetmakers, and artisans labored over every last detail of the opulent state rooms. This book--which features numerous archival photographs and illustrations alongside a host of informative and illuminating sidebars--reveals that, contrary to popular opinion, no one at the White Star Line ever called the ship unsinkable. And it takes us as never before into the veritable city of surprising comforts aboard Titanic, which contained a darkroom, gym, hospital, squash court, swimming pool, Turkish bath, wireless telegraph office, barber shops that sold souvenirs, a printing department that issued a daily newspaper with news received by wireless telegraph, and even a mail room staffed by five postal workers, who went down with the ship, protecting the mail. From the engine room to the ballroom, this companion to the Nat Geo documentary Rebuilding Titanic is a moving testament to those who designed, built, and fitted the ship of dreams.
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Text copyright 2010 by Anton Gill
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437.
First published in the UK in 2010 by Channel 4 Books, an imprint of Transworld Publishers
First published in the USA in 2011 by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Rebuilding Titanic is produced by Twenty Twenty Television, a Shed Media Company, for Channel 4 and National Geographic.
Designed by Bobby Birchall, Bobby&Co.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
ISBN 978-0-7627-7829-4
Printed in the United States of America
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Picture Credits: NMNI = National Museums Northern Ireland 2010/Collection Harland & Wolff. Photograph reproduced courtesy the Trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland. NMM = National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. MEPL = Mary Evans Picture Library. Half title: house flag, White Star line: NMM; opp. title page: Harland & Wolff men leaving work, May 1911: NMNI/H1555; opp. contents page: great gantry, Queens Island, May 1911: NMNI/WAG3734; 11:Titanic poster,1912: courtesy ofThe Advertising Archives; 1213: workers in front of Olympic: NMNI/H1555; 13: ticket for Titanic launch, 31 May 1911; 14: Lord Pirrie and Bruce Ismay, 31 May 1911: NMNI/H23640; 15:Titanic ready for launch, 31 May 1911: NMNI/H23641; 1819: Harland & Wolff shipyard, c.1912: Getty Images; 20: J. P. Morgan: Topham Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk; 223: swimming pool and Turkish bath, Titanic, 1912: both MEPL/Onslow Auctions Ltd; 24:Titanic poster, 1912: courtesy of The Advertising Archives; 26: Edward J. Harland, from The Shipbuilder,1911: Science Museum Library; 29:Great Britain, Bristol, 19 July 1843: TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk; 31: Thomas Andrews, 1911: NMNI/TR60-60A; 32:Tayleur, engraving, 1853: The Granger Collection/TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk; 33: Thomas Henry Ismay, Vanity Fair, 1894: SSPL via Getty Images; 34: Emigrants arriving at New York, April 1890: NMM; 37: diagram from The Shipbuilder, 1911; 38: Joseph Bruce Ismay, 1912: Getty Images; 40: cartoon from Puck by Frank Arthur Nankivell, c.1910: The Art Archive/Alamy; 42: William James Pirrie, from The Shipbuilder, 1911: SSPL via Getty Images; 45: poster by Charles Dixon, 1907: courtesy of The Advertising Archives; 47: illustration from a White Star Line brochure, 1911: MEPL/Onslow Auctions Ltd; 489: launch of Olympic, 20 October 1910: Getty Images; 501: birds-eye view of Queens Island, Belfast, 1921: NMNI/1262; 52: construction of slips, Queens Island, 1907: NMNI/H1227; 53:Olympic, postcard, c.1910: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; 545: arrival of Olympic, New York, c.1910: Getty Images; 55: inspection of the lifeboats on Olympic, 1912: Illustrated London News Ltd/MEPL; 57: Capt. Sir Arthur Henry Rostron: TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk; 58:Mauretania: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; 59:Vaterland anchor, c.1900: ullstein bild/TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk; 623: Thompson Graving Dock, May 1911: NMNI/H1656; 645: Queens Bridge, Belfast, early twentieth century: NMNI/WAG3728; 67: Orange Parade, Belfast, c.1912: NMNI/L843/1; 68: Castle Place, Belfast, c.1905: Getty Images; 71: Harland & Wolff Rules, 1888: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; 72: linen mill worker, early twentieth century: NMNI/H10-31-16; 74: poster, 1903: courtesy The Advertising Archives; 78: cross section of gantries, from The Shipbuilder, 1911; 79: construction of Arrol gantry, 1908: NMNI/H2547; 801: drawing office, 1912: NMNI/H501; : transportation of Titanics anchor, 1 May 1911: NMM; 86: cross section of Titanic: Roger-Viollet/TopFoto/TopFoto.co.uk; 88: hand-riveters, Britannic, 1913: NMNI/H1915; 90: hydraulic riveters, Britannic, 1913: NMNI/H1919; 93:Olympic, May 1909: NMNI/H2389; 94: frames, Olympic, 1909: NMNI/H2396; 98: rudder and propellers of Olympic, April 1911: NMNI/H151; 99: watertight bulkhead door, Olympic, 1910: NMNI/H1471; 100: Mould Loft, c.1910: NMNI/H57; 1023: web frame with outer plating, Britannic: NMNI/H1907; 107: Olympic funnel leaving workshops, 23 March 1911: NMNI/H2412; 109: page from injury log, 10 April 1912: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; 110, 113: Fatality on Titanic, photo of Robert L. Murphy, and of his funeral: Irish Daily Telegraph, 17 June 1911: British Library, Newspaper Library, Colindale; 11415: turbine rotor being bladed, Britannic, 1914: NMNI/H1975; 116: Parsons Steam Turbo-Generator 60KW, 1901: Science Museum; 117: Charles Parsons: George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress/Science Photo Library; 11819:Turbinia: Science Photo Library; 120: turbine being lifted on board Britannic, 1 August 1914: NMNI/H2159; 122: Crippen led from Montrose, 31 July 1910: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy; 123: engine of Titanic in works erecting shop: NMNI/H1711; engine bedplate lifted from the dockside, Britannic: NMNI/H1986; 125:Olympic boilers, October 1909: SSPL via Getty Images; 127: fitting the starboard tail shaft, Titanic, 1912: NMNI/H1557; 128, 131: chain-makers, Hingley works, 19001910: both courtesy James Hicks from his great-grandfather, Joseph Hicks/www.cradleylinks.co.uk; 132: women chain-makers strike, 1910, photo by Edward Beech: www.cradleylinks.co.uk; 1345: starboard main generating set, Olympic, May 1911: UR&TM/H1534; 136: Turkish bath ticket, Titanic, 1912: MEPL/Onslow Auctions Ltd; 141: first-class reading room, Titanic, 1912: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis; 142: stores lift, Olympic: NMNI/H1528; 143: first-class lifts, Titanic, 1912: akg-images; 1467: loading mail, 11 April 1911: Father Browne/Getty Images; 147: White Star Line calendar, 1912: MEPL/Onslow Auctions Ltd; 148: passengers boarding Titanic, 11 April 1912: Father Browne/Getty Images; 149: The Victim, cartoon by Bernard Partridge from Punch, 6 March 1912; 150: colliers, South Wales, 27 February 1912: Getty Images; 152: firemen in the boiler room, Titanic: INTERFOTO/Alamy; 154: Lord Kelvin, 1902: Getty Images; 158: bridge,
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