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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 655

Great Britain
R.M.S. Titanic
1912 hard bound first edition of the "Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship "Titanic")", being a "Report of a Formal Investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on 15th April, 1912, of the British Steamship "Titanic", of Liverpool, after striking ice in or near Latitude 41° 46' N., Longitude 50° 14' W., North Atlantic Ocean, whereby loss of life ensued". Included in the report are extraordinarily detailed accounts of the ship's workings, namely "Life-Saving Appliances", specifying the various types of boat making up the "Twenty boats in all [which] were fitted on the vessel", with forty-eight lifebuoys and 3,560 lifebelts; "Pumping Arrangements; "Telephones, "Emergency Circuit" and more, detailing also the number and type of passengers on board. All followed by sections titled "Account of the Ship's Journey Across the Atlantic, the Messages She Received and the Disaster", "Description of the Damage to the Ship and of its Gradual and Final effect, with Observations Thereon"; "Account of the Saving and Rescue of Those Who Survived"; "The Board of Trade's Administration; and "Recommendations". Bound together with "The Deathless Story of the 'Titanic'", a detailed supplement providing numerous images and a list of those aboard. A superb and rare item

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