On a Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest vessel in the world at the time, sank on her maiden voyage after ramming an iceberg. Of the 2,223 people on board only 705 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic. How could this unsinkable vessel sink and how could the authorities allow her to sail with lifeboats for less than 50 per cent of those aboard. View Less