REFERENCES

Bibliography

Many books have been written about Titanic, most of them focusing on the wreck, but that is not the purpose of this particular volume. The list that follows is short, but it does include Bruce Beveridge’s brilliant, exhaustive, expensive and massive two-volume work, which may be considered the standard modern work.

Bruce Beveridge (with Scott Andrews, Steve Hall and Daniel Klistorner), Titanic: The Ship Magnificent, 2 vols—Design and Construction and Interior Design and Fitting Out (The History Press, Stroud, 2009)

James Brown, Signalling (James Brown & Son, Glasgow, 1908), now published as Brown’s Signalling: How to Learn the International Code of Visual and Sound Signals Shan F. Bullock, Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder (Maunsel & Co, Dublin and London, 1912) Joseph Conrad, “Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic” (1912), collected in Notes on Life and Letters (Dent, London, 1921)

Duncan Crosbie, Le Titanic, trans. Frederique Fraisse, (Quatre Fleuves, Paris, 2007)

Michael Davie, The Titanic: The Full Story of a Tragedy (Bodley Head, London,1986)

Robin Gardiner, Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? (Ian Allen, Hersham, 2009)

Tony Gibbons, A Technical Directory of Battleships and Battlecruisers, 1860-present (Salamander, London, 1983)

Lady Duff Gordon, Discretions and Indiscretions (Frederick A. Stokes, London, 1932)

Stephen Gwynn, The Famous Cities of Ireland (Maunsel & Co, Dublin, 1915)

Archibald Campbell Holms, Practical Shipbuilding (1918)

Donald Hyslop, Alastair Forsyth, Sheila Jemima, Titanic Voices: Memories from the Fateful Voyage (Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1997) Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of a Stewardess, ed. John Maxtone-Graham (Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1998)

Walter Lord, A Night to Remember (Penguin, London, 1981)

John Maxtone-Graham, The Only Way to Cross (Macmillan, London, 1972)

Michael McCaughan, The Birth of the Titanic (Blackstaff, Belfast, 1998)

David Miller, The Illustrated Directory of Warships, 1860-present (London,

Salamander, 2001)

Morgan Robertson, Futility or The Wreck of the Titan (Kessinger Reprints, Lavergne, Montana, 2009)

Robert Sherard, The White Slaves of England (James Bowden, London, 1897)

William Stead, “‘From the Old World to the New” (1892)

Frederick Talbot, Steamship Conquest of the World (Heinemann, London, 1912)

Brendan Walker, The Taxonomy of Thrill (Aerial Publishing, 2004)

Webography

There are many sites concerned with Titanic.

The best to start with are:

Encyclopedia-titanica. org

Keyflux. com/titanic/facts. htm

Titanichistoricalsociety. org

Titanic-titanic. com

There are, of course, many films about Titanic. Those listed below are either the best or at least the best known. Several television and documentary films have been omitted, though it’s worth mentioning Dr. Robert Ballard’s Secrets of the Titanic (1987).

Feature films include the following:

Titanic, directed by Herbert Selpin (1943)

A German propaganda film, this was supposed to focus on British imperialism and incompetence. It flopped even in Germany, but clips were lifted for use in Roy Ward Baker’s film A Night to Remember.

Titanic, directed by Jean Negulesco (1953) Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb and Robert Wagner, this lavish documentary-drama mixed fictional and real characters. It opened in Hollywood on April 14, exactly forty-one years after the disaster.

A Night to Remember, directed by Roy Ward Baker (1958)

Although it has some factual errors—arising from matters related to the sinking that were not known when it was made—this is one of the best feature films.

Raise the Titanic, directed by Jerry Jameson (1980)

Based on a Clive Cussler novel, this film boasted the likes of Alec Guinness and Jason Robards in its cast, but it was an expensive flop. Its producer, Lord Lew Grade, was prompted to exclaim, “Raise the Titanic? My God, it would be cheaper to lower the Atlantic!”

Titanic, directed by James Cameron (1997)

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, this romantic melodrama won eleven Oscars, but told a love story that was highly unlikely given the social divisions of the time.

There are several societies worldwide, but the most well known are probably: The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. (Www. titanichistoricalsociety. org)

The Titanic International Society (Www. titanicinternationalsociety. org)