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Jack Thayer and the Wreck of the Titanic: A 15-Minute Book

Author : Jack Thayer
Publisher : Learning Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Thayer and the Wreck of the Titanic: A 15-Minute Book written by Jack Thayer and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventeen-Year-Old Son of a Pennsylvania Railroad Official Tells the Moving Story of His Rescue ONE of the calmest of the passengers was young Jack Thayer, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer. When his mother was put into the lifeboat he kissed her and told her to be brave, saying that he and his father would be all right. He and Mr. Thayer stood on the deck as the small boat in which Mrs. Thayer was a passenger made off from the side of the Titanic over the smooth sea. The boy's own account of his experience as told to one of his rescuers is one of the most remarkable of all the wonderful ones that have come from the tremendous catastrophe. Here, in his own words, is his story. Jack Thayer was the son of a Pennsylvania Railroad official. He was 17 years old when he and his parents decided to sail from England to America on board the Titanic. This is his story of his rescue. Ages 8 and up. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Jack Thayer and the Wreck of the Titanic

Author : Jack Thayer
Publisher : Learning Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Thayer and the Wreck of the Titanic written by Jack Thayer and published by Learning Island. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventeen-Year-Old Son of a Pennsylvania Railroad Official Tells the Moving Story of His Rescue ONE of the calmest of the passengers was young Jack Thayer, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer. When his mother was put into the lifeboat he kissed her and told her to be brave, saying that he and his father would be all right. He and Mr. Thayer stood on the deck as the small boat in which Mrs. Thayer was a passenger made off from the side of the Titanic over the smooth sea. The boy's own account of his experience as told to one of his rescuers is one of the most remarkable of all the wonderful ones that have come from the tremendous catastrophe. Here, in his own words, is his story. Jack Thayer was the son of a Pennsylvania Railroad official. He was 17 years old when he and his parents decided to sail from England to America on board the Titanic. This is his story of his rescue. Ages 8 and up. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

The Sinking of the the SS Titanic April 14-15, 1912

Author : Jack Thayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781692722258
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the the SS Titanic April 14-15, 1912 written by Jack Thayer and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A vivid account of how the TITANIC sank by survivor Jack Thayer' THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'A dramatic first-hand account... TITANIC survivor reveals the horrifying cries of the luxury liner's dying victims' THE DAILY MAIL. On April 14, 1912, John B. 'Jack' Thayer III the 17-year-old heir to a Pennsylvania railroad fortune, was riding in first class with his mother, father and their maid on the most spectacular ship of its era - the TITANIC. Jack was one of only a handful of survivors who escaped by jumping into the freezing Atlantic as the TITANIC sank and spent the next five hours clinging onto the last lifeboat that was swept off the ship's boat deck upturned. He barely survived the disaster, and his detailed and shocking account of that fateful night has riveted those he recounted it to in the following decades. Finally, in 1940, he wrote down what happened, printing 500 copies for his family. Five years later, after the tragic loss of his son in the Second World War, Jack Thayer committed suicide, and his story was mostly forgotten. This new edition published in 2018 includes the historically important series of six drawings by Lewis Skidmore a young art teacher aboard the CARPATHIA (which saved the TITANIC survivors). Jack described to Lewis the stages of the TITANIC'S demise, which Skidmore drew. Critically it shows the ship breaking in two as she sank. Many survivors refuted this assessment but seventy years later Jack and others was proved right when the wreck was discovered resting on the seabed in two halves. It also includes other bonus material, Jack's earlier, much shorter accounts of his amazing escape published in 1912 and 1913.ABOUT THE AUTHOR John 'Jack' B. Thayer III, was born in Philadelphia on 24 December 1894 into the wealthy and aristocratic Thayer family. His father was John Thayer II who ran the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, his mother, socialite Marian Thayer. After surviving the disaster he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, served as an artillery officer in the First World War, went into banking and was later financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania. He committed suicide on September 20, 1945 following several years of depression, he was found in a car in Philadelphia his throat and wrists cut. He was survived by his wife Lois Cassatt, son John, and three daughters, Lois, Julie and Pauline.

Titanic: The John B. "jack" Thayer Chronicles

Author : Thomas Cornwall
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797095745
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Titanic: The John B. "jack" Thayer Chronicles written by Thomas Cornwall and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic slipped beneath the waters of the North Atlantic, taking 1500 people to their deaths. Only about 700 people survived, one of whom was 1st class passenger John B "Jack" Thayer Jr, who was on the ship till nearly the end, and then spent an unforgettable night, huddled on top of an overturned lifeboat waiting for rescue with over two dozen others. Although his mother survived, his father perished in the frigid waters.Jack described his experiences in various writings from 1912 to1940. For the first time, these are compiled into one volume, with footnotes and analysis, allowing us to witness his own experiences that night.

Titanic and Other Ships

Author : Charles Herbert LIGHTOLLER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446131777
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Titanic and Other Ships written by Charles Herbert LIGHTOLLER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightoller remarkably swam away from the sinking Titanic and avoided being sucked under. This is just one of the incredible escapes described in this book.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Author : Logan Marshall
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3954272261
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters written by Logan Marshall and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a few weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Marshall Logan was the first author to publish an account of the tragic event. His book contains plenty of information that has become forgotten over the last hundred years and provides a very detailed insight into the shipwreck. Most remarkable about Logan's work is its focus on personal stories of the Titanic's passengers. Told by those who survived, the history of the Titanic is most authentic and absorbing, even for contemporary readers. Reprint of the original edition.

The Titanic Secret

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593719662
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Titanic Secret written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterward is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that reopens a historical mystery... In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he'll go to stop them.

Titanic

Author : Archibald Gracie
Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753154540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Titanic written by Archibald Gracie and published by Isis Large Print Books. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...There arose to the sky the most horrible sounds ever heard by mortal man except by those of us who survived this terrible tragedy. The agonising cries of death from over a thousand throats, the wails and groans of the suffering... none of us will ever forget until his dying day.' Archibald Gracie was among the last to leave the sinking Titanic. His is the most vivid and accurate first-hand account of the disaster ever published. As well as detailing his own experiences Gracie tracked down as many survivors as possible.

Unsinkable

Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848326416
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Unsinkable written by Daniel Allen Butler and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern work to give a comprehensive picture of the RMS Titanic and the people intertwined with her fate, from disaster to recovery. Drawn from primary sources and contemporary accounts and updated to coincide with the April 2012 anniversary, this new heart-rending narrative allows readers to come to their own conclusions about this legendary vessel. Daniel Allen Butler spend more than 30 years researching the work, delving into the lives of every principal participant. In addition to examining the roles played by individual, he also looks into the problems of equipment and errors in technical data that resulted in the deaths of 1502 people. Rather than focussing on the night of the tragedy alone, he also investigates the events leading up to and following the fateful night.

Shadow of the Titanic

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145167158X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of the Titanic written by Andrew Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the icy waters of the North Atlantic reverberated with the desperate screams of more than 1,500 men, women, and children—passengers of the once majestic liner Titanic. Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from hypothermia, an even more awful silence settled over the sea. The sights and sounds of that night would haunt each of the vessel’s 705 survivors for the rest of their days. Although we think we know the story of Titanic—the famously luxurious and supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Britain to America—very little has been written about what happened to the survivors after the tragedy. How did they cope in the aftermath of this horrific event? How did they come to remember that night, a disaster that has been likened to the destruction of a small town? Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, and diaries as well as interviews with survivors’ family members, award-winning journalist and author Andrew Wilson reveals how some used their experience to propel themselves on to fame, while others were so racked with guilt they spent the rest of their lives under the Titanic’s shadow. Some reputations were destroyed, and some survivors were so psychologically damaged that they took their own lives in the years that followed. Andrew Wilson brings to life the colorful voices of many of those who lived to tell the tale, from famous survivors like Madeleine Astor (who became a bride, a widow, an heiress, and a mother all within a year), Lady Duff Gordon, and White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay, to lesser known second- and third-class passengers such as the Navratil brothers—who were traveling under assumed names because they were being abducted by their father. Today, one hundred years after that fateful voyage, Shadow of the Titanic adds an important new dimension to our understanding of this enduringly fascinating story.

A Night to Remember

Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805077643
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book A Night to Remember written by Walter Lord and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.

Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust

Author : Elly Berkovits Gross
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545231191
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust written by Elly Berkovits Gross and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the left. She never saw her family alive again. Thanks to a series of miracles, Elly survived the Holocaust. Today she is dedicated to keeping alive the stories of those who did not. Elly appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes for her involvement in bringing an important lawsuit against Volkswagen, whose German factory used her and other Jews as slave laborers.

101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't!

Author : Tim Maltin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101558938
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic . . . butDidn't! written by Tim Maltin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 15th, 2012, will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. People have an endless fascination with the Titanic, yet much of what they know today is a mixture of fact and fiction. In one hundred and one brief and engaging chapters, Tim Maltin, one of the foremost experts on the Titanic, reveals the truth behind the most common beliefs about the ship and the night it sank. From physics to photographs, lawsuits to love stories, Maltin doesn't miss one tidbit surrounding its history. Heavily researched and filled with detailed descriptions, quotes from survivors, and excerpts from the official inquiries, this book is guaranteed to make readers rethink everything they thought they knew about the legendary ship and its tragic fate.

Titanic

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780545116749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Titanic written by Deborah Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.

The Truth about the Titanic

Author : Archibald Gracie
Publisher : Tales End Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about the Titanic written by Archibald Gracie and published by Tales End Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ship of Dreams

Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501176730
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Ship of Dreams written by Gareth Russell and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage). In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on “the ship of dreams,” the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic’s sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century. Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic’s voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is “a beautiful requiem” (The Wall Street Journal) in which “readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want” (Christian Science Monitor).

Titanic Survivor

Author : Violet Jessop
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461740320
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Titanic Survivor written by Violet Jessop and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Throughout her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of events including the sinking of the TITANIC. “One awful moment of empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats, a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at the mercy of the ice field.” For most people one sinking would be enough. But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. To her, this disaster was even more horrifying-- “Just as life seeming nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day, my nose barely above the little lapping waves. I opened my eyes on an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again to keep it out." By the end of her story we have a met a woman who could handle whatever life threw at her with determination and good humor. She knew that only by her own strength of character would she survive. But Titanic Survivor is much more. A unique autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor.