![]() Nielsen so often knocks it out of the park with historical thrillers, and this was not thrilling. Maybe I'm just too much of a Millennial and I'm seeing things that aren't there, but too often I felt like I was getting movie quote references-it's like the main research source was James Cameron. This book is a mess, from the easiest things to get right (how can you get the number of passengers on the ship wrong? I don't even need to look it up to know-it's as well known as the name of Columbus' ships) to the cartoonish villains. I really expected a lot better from Nielsen. Nielsen weaves an extraordinary tapestry of survival and disaster in this magnificent thriller. The danger only intensifies when calamity strikes, and readers will be caught up in the terror and suspense alongside Hazel as she fights to save her friends and herself.īestselling author Jennifer A. With the help of a porter named Charlie and a sweet first-class passenger named Sylvia, Hazel explores the opulent ship in secret, but a haunting mystery quickly finds her. When Hazel discovers that mother didn’t send her with enough money for a ticket, she decides she must stow away onboard the storied ship. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel’s mother is sending her to the US to work in a factory, so that she might send money back home to help her family make ends meet.īut Hazel harbors a secret dream: She wants to be a journalist, and she just knows that if she can write and sell a story about the Titanic's maiden voyage, she could earn enough money to support her family and not have to go to a sweatshop. Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic. This is only conjecture.The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempting to find answers to her many questions about the ship, suddenly finds herself caught up in the desperate struggle to survive after it strikes an iceberg. He probably split the difference between a celestial fix and a dead reckoned position. What Captain Smith probably did was use a combination of the two methods. ![]() That means they had to rely on their recordings of ship course and speed to compute their position from their last accurate position (which was probably 5 hours old). Their last accurate fix was probably at twilight when a distinct horizon is available and the stars were visible (we know the sky was clear that night). He may have just used what is called the dead reckoned position. Captain Smith may have tried to do this, but he would have been guessing as to the exact sighting of the horizon. In order to accurately compute your position using the stars or the moon, you need to be able to see the horizon through a sextant. The night they struck the berg, there was no moon. Back then they used celestial navigation and dead reckoning. Obviously, today we have satellite navigation. In 1912, navigation at sea could be very imprecise. Titanic's final resting position, over 2000 meters below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean, is 41-44 degrees North and 49-56 degrees West. Titanic's CQD or SOS (distress call) position was 41-56 degrees North and 50-14 degrees West. The RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on the evening of 14 April, 1912, and sank early in the morning of 15 April, 1912.
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