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There can be no such thing as a definitive history, and this single chapter does not attempt to be one. Inasmuch, however, as facts can ever be established, here follows a brief history of the Titanic. It is, of course, a history of only the physical Titanic. Its purpose is simply to set the stage for my analysis of the much more important mythical Titanic; to provide a background — a perspective — against which that mythical Titanic can be better understood.
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Michael Davie, The Titanic: The Full Story of a Tragedy (London, 1986), P. 9.
Anon, ‘Launch of the Titanic’ in The Times, 1 June 1911, p. 9.
Quoted in Wyn Craig Wade, The Titanic: End of a Dream (London, 1980), p. 35.
The precise number is not known. The British inquiry concluded only one (British Inquiry Report [1912] p. 69.), but later research (see, for example, Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, Titanic: An Illustrated History [London, 1992]) has suggested considerably more.
Peter Padfield, The Titanic and the Californian (London, 1965).
Leslie Reade, The Ship That Stood Still (Sparkford, Somerset, 1993).
Geoffrey Marcus, The Maiden Voyage (London, 1969), p. 274.
Ballard’s account of the discovery and exploration of the Titanic wreck site is fully described in Robert D. Ballard, The Discovery of the Titanic (London, 1987, revised edition, 1989).
Robert D. Ballard, ‘Epilogue to the 1989 Edition’ in The Discovery of the Titanic (London, 1989), p. 214.
See R. Barry O’Brien, ‘Inquiry Captains all on Different Courses’ in the Daily Telegraph 3 April 1992, p. 8.
Cited in R. Barry O’Brien, ‘Titanic Inquiry Fails to End Row Over Rescue That Never Came’ in the Daily Telegraph, 3 April 1992, p. 8.
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Howells, R. (1999). A Brief History of the Titanic. In: The Myth of the Titanic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510845_2
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