BUILDING THE TITANIC

An Epic Tale Of The Creation
Of History's Most Famous Ocean Liner

Rod GREEN

Reader's Digest Association - 2005

Carlton Books - 2011

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most tragic events in seafaring history, but its construction remains one of the greatest achievements of human engineering. Here is the first detailed account of the creation of this "grand hotel of the high seas" the amazing story of how the ship was designed and constructed, and why, nearly 100 years later, its legend continues to fascinate us.

Perhaps it is because everything about the Titanic was absolutely gigantic. To this day, it is difficult to comprehend the impact of its sheer size. In the year 1910, a resident of Belfast provided a haunting image of the giant luxury liner under construction that reinforces the wonder of it all...

The skeleton within the scaffolding began to take shape, at the sight of which men held their breaths. It was the shape of a ship, a ship so monstrous and unthinkable that it towered there over the buildings and dwarfed the very mountains by the water... with à rudder as big as a giant elm tree, with propellers the size of windmills-everything was on a nightmare scale.