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The Titanic Disaster : Omens, Mysteries and Misfortunes of the Doomed Liner, Hardback Book

The Titanic Disaster : Omens, Mysteries and Misfortunes of the Doomed Liner Hardback

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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 if the RMS Titanic had been doomed to a watery grave even before it sailed?

Certainly, many people experienced feelings of foreboding about the ship, and there were many strange omens and unexplained events surrounding its construction and maiden voyage. A novel written many years before Titanic was built mirrored almost exactly the details of the disaster, and the well-known spiritualist, W.T.

Stead, wrote a story of a similar nature. As a passenger on the ship, he seemed to have accepted his fate and did not try to save himself.

Even animals seem to have sensed danger, such as the dog which tried to stop its owner from travelling to board the vessel, and Titanic's cat had kittens and was seen taking them all off the liner before it sailed.

The voyage was fatefully delayed for three weeks, and at least fifty travellers had forebodings about the Ghost Ship', some of whom missed the sailing or refused to board. Following years of research, James has uncovered some 100 fascinating stories concerning omens and premonitions of people who sailed - or in fact decided not to - on the ill-fated liner.

This is the first time that all of these incidents have been brought together.

Together they provide an unusual insight into the Titanic disaster.

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