Titanic / Owen McCafferty.
At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1517 people died. In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissi...
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| Online Access: | Electronic resource from Drama Online |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London : Bloomsbury, [2017] ©2017 |
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| Genre: | Drama. |
| Summary: | At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1517 people died. In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Titanic retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: London: Faber and Faber, 2012. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9780571338405.10000001 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 25, 2017). |
| Accessibility Note: | Compatible with accessibility standards for most Level A (Priority 1) and AA (Priority 2) success criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) developed by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). |