Included are follow-ups to what happened to the survivors whose accounts are presented. The voices of crew, first class, second class, and third class passengers blend together telling their account of the maiden voyage of the Titanic, and what happen as she went down. In this factual account of the fatal maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, eyewitness and survivor accounts are woven together to tell a three-dimensional account of the fate of the Titanic and her passengers and crew on the fatal morning of April 15, 1912. The disaster might have been easier to understand if there’d been a fierce storm, with pounding waves and howling winds. Who do you think was one of the heroes of this disaster? Give evidence from the book in your 3-5 sentence response.As they shivered in the freezing air, the survivors could barely absorb the tragedy that had transformed their lives.

But often out of disaster and tragedy come heroes. Prompt: The sinking of the Titanic is known as one of the most significant disasters of our time. Listen to a radio interview with the author here. Listen to this excerpt of the audiobook here. Visit the Encylopedia Titanica for all the information you could ever want to know about the fateful journey. Packed with heart-stopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, quotes from primary sources, and painstaking back matter, this gripping story, which follows the TITANIC and its passengers from the ship’s celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers.Ĭheck out the author’s website for more information about her and the book, as well as links to survivor testimonies and radio interviews with some of the major characters in this book, including Charles Lightoller and Joseph Boxhall!

In this award-winning book, critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC survivors and witnesses to the disaster - from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the CARPATHIA, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship.

Titanic voices