The Titanic Disaster

It was on Wednesday, 10 April 1912, that the imposing bulk of the RMS Titanic slipped her berth, and, to great fanfare, headed out into the Solent at the start of her maiden voyage. By all accounts, the liner was at the time the largest man-made object ever to move on water.The space her decks created allowed her designers to introduce previously unseen levels of luxury.In first class, for example, there were many new features such as squash courts, a Turkish bath, a gymnasium, a barber shop and even the first swimming pool built on board a ship.There was also the bold claim by its builders that Titanic was ‘practically unsinkable’.Sadly, just four days later, this assertion was found wanting.At 23.40 hours on the evening of 14 April, Titanic struck an iceberg.In less than three hours she had slipped beneath the waves. While the liner’s loss has been the subject of numerous films, documentaries and publications in the years that followed, in this book the author James W.Bancroft asks i