{"product_id":"the-last-log-of-the-titanic","title":"The Last Log of the Titanic","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly nine decades after the event  the sinking of the Titanic continues to command more attention than any other twentieth-century catatrophe. Yet most of what is commonly believed about that fateful night in 1912 is  at best  a body of myth and legend nurtured by the ships owners and surviving officers and kept alive by generations of authors and moviemakers. That  at least  is the thesis presented in this compellingly bold  thoroughly plausible contrarian reconstruction of the last hours of the pride of the White Star Line. The new but no-less harrowing Titanic story that Captain David G. Brown unfolds is one involving a tragic chain of errors on the part of the well-meaning crew  the pernicious influence of the ships haughty owner  who was aboard for the maiden trip  and a fatal overconfidence in the infallibility of early twentieth-century technology. Among the most startling facts to emerge are that theTitanic did not collide with an iceberg but instead ran aground on a submerged ice shelf  resulting in damage not to the ships sides but to the bottom of her hull. First Officer Murdoch never gave the infamous CRASH STOP (\"reverse engines\") order; rather  he ordered ALL STOP  allowing him to execute a nearly successful S-curve maneuveraround the berg. The iceberg did not materialize unheralded from an ice-free sea; theTitanic was likely steaming at 22 1\/2 knots through scattered ice  with no extra lookouts posted  for two hours or more before the fatal encounter. Visibility was not poor that night  and the only signs of haze or distortion were those produced by the ice field itself as the Titanic approached. Most startling of all  however  is evidence that the ship might have stayed afloat long enough to permit the rescue of all passengers and crew if Captain Smith  at the behest of his employer  Bruce Ismay  had not given the order to resume steaming. Offering a radically new interpretation of the facts surrounding the most famous shipwreck in history The Last Log of the Titanic is certain to ignite a storm of controversy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955465777205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0071413081","price":88.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780071413084.jpg?v=1770308569","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-log-of-the-titanic","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}