title: Titanic Myths, Titanic Truths: How A Series of Errors Caused History's Most Famous Maritime Disaster
author: Capt David G Brown
description: David G. Brown is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed master mariner in both power-driven and sailing vessels. He has rescued nine people during his 25-year career and holds the U.S. Sailing Rescue Medal. Brown is authorized to teach approved navigation and other classes to aspiring captains. In addition, he has 17 years experience as an award-winning TV news producer. Brown assisted in two History Channel and On Weather Channel documentaries about Titanic. This is his second book on the subject.
zlib_text: **SINKING OF THE TITANIC**
  
   **AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS**
  
    
  
   **By Various**
  
    
  
   **Edited by Logan Marshall**
  
    
  
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  > > Pre-Frontispiece Caption: THE TITANIC
  
  > > The largest and finest steamship in the world; on her maiden voyage,
  > loaded with a human freight of over 2,300 souls, she collided with a huge
  > iceberg 600 miles southeast of Halifax, at 11.40 P.M. Sunday April 14, 1912,
  > and sank two and a half hours later, carrying over 1,600 of her passengers
  > and crew with her.
  
  > > Frontispiece Caption: CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH
  
  > > Of the ill-fated giant of the sea; a brave and seasoned commander who was
  > carried to his death with his last and greatest ship.
  
  > > Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
  
  > > A Detailed and Accurate Account of the Most Awful Marine Disaster in
  > History, Constructed from the Real Facts as Obtained from Those on Board Who
  > Survived..........
  
  > > ONLY AUTHORITATIVE BOOK
  
  > > INCLUDING Records of Previous Great Disasters of the Sea,