The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

by Lawrence Beesley

Overview

A survivors account of the epic sinking of the Titanic and analysis of the tragic failures that caused the sinking of the "Unsinkable" ship.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013891388
Publisher:	Infinite Beacon Publishing
Publication date:	04/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	109 KB

About the Author

One of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912, Beesley wrote a successful book about his experience, The Loss of the SS Titanic (June, 1912), published just nine weeks after the disaster. He saw two second class women who tried to get on a lifeboat, who were told to go back to their own deck, and that their lifeboats were waiting there.
During the filming of A Night to Remember (1958), Beesley famously gatecrashed the set during the sinking scene, hoping to ‘go down with the ship’ that time. But he was spotted by the director, Roy Ward Baker, who vetoed this unscheduled appearance, due to actors' union rules. These events are parodied in Julian Barnes' novel A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters, where Beesley makes a brief appearance as a fictional character.