The man who sank the Titanic : the troubled life of quartermaster Robert Hichens.
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TextPublication details: Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2011Description: 159 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN: 0752460714; 9780752460710 (pbk.)Subject(s): Hichens, Robert | Titanic (Steamship) | Merchant mariners -- Great Britain -- Biography | Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 20th centurySummary: MARITIME HISTORY. With previously unpublished research and family photographs, this book by Hichens' granddaughter sets the record straight about the Titanic quartermaster who steered into an iceberg and kept control of a lifeboat Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. A key witness at both U.S. and British Inquiries, he returned to a livelihood where fellow crewmen considered him jinxed. But Robert had a long career and was a hardworking, ambitious seaman. A fisherman at 19, he quickly became a junior officer in the merchant navy and in 1910 was part of a remarkable salvage operation to refloat a 14,330 ton liner. In World War II he was part of a cargo ship convoy on route to Africa where his ship dodged mines, U-boats and enemy aircraft.
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MARITIME HISTORY. With previously unpublished research and family photographs, this book by Hichens' granddaughter sets the record straight about the Titanic quartermaster who steered into an iceberg and kept control of a lifeboat Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. A key witness at both U.S. and British Inquiries, he returned to a livelihood where fellow crewmen considered him jinxed. But Robert had a long career and was a hardworking, ambitious seaman. A fisherman at 19, he quickly became a junior officer in the merchant navy and in 1910 was part of a remarkable salvage operation to refloat a 14,330 ton liner. In World War II he was part of a cargo ship convoy on route to Africa where his ship dodged mines, U-boats and enemy aircraft.
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