title: Navigating the Waters of My Dreams: A Master Shipbuilder's Tale of His Voyage with the RMS Titanic
author: Norm Little
description: Norm Little now resides in Pennsylvania with his family and three dogs. He spends his time giving lectures on the Titanic to benefit Hospice in memory of his son, David, and volunteering at Discovery Station at Hagerstown, Inc.
zlib_text: ** Titanic - The Most Complete Story Ever Told **
  
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  ** Cover Image Credit: **
  
  Photograph of a Lifeboat Carrying Titanic Survivors, 05/14/1912. ARC
  Identifier 278337
  
    
    
  
  ** Forward **
  
  Since I was a child of only six years, I have had more than a passing interest
  in Titanic. I remember reading a small reference to the Titanic in a story
  about underwater exploration. At that moment, I became irrevocably captivated
  - not so much by the exploration, but by the Titanic - by her story, her
  legends, and the stories and legends of the people who sailed her. As time
  went on, I would learn everything I could about Titanic - completely by choice
  and not as part of any school requirements. Though periods of time, sometimes
  even years would go by during which I gave no thought whatsoever to the
  Titanic, the moment I would hear her name, or hear about ships or ocean
  travel, I immediately became obsessed again, and my passion for the great ship
  was reignited. Now a gro