Titanic: The Final Forty Eight Hours (Critical Hours Book 2)
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Titanic: The Critical Hours
Southampton, England
10 April 1912
The morning air carried the familiar scent of coal smoke, salt water, and anticipation.
Along the docks at Southampton, thousands gathered to see a moment that many believed marked the beginning of a new age. Stevedores hurried along the quayside. Porters wrestled trunks and valises towards waiting gangways. Families embraced, waved handkerchiefs, and shouted final farewells over the growing noise of steam winches and tugboat whistles.
Towering above them all stood a ship unlike anything the world had ever seen.
RMS Titanic.
Her black hull stretched seemingly without end along the dockside. Above it rose four great funnels, painted buff and black against the pale spring sky. The gleaming white superstructure appeared more like a grand hotel than a vessel intended to cross one of the world’s most dangerous oceans.
At 882 feet in length and weighing more than 46,000 tons, she was the largest moving object ever built by human hands.