The midnight watch : a novel of the Titanic and the Californian
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250080936
- ISBN: 1250080932
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Physical Description:
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323 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Australia by Penguin Group (Australia)"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Titanic (Steamship) Fiction Californian (Ship) Fiction Shipwrecks North Atlantic Ocean Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Independence Branch | DYER D (Text) | 33126020752535 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A fictional retelling of the command and crew of the SS Californian who bore witness to the eight distress rockets fired by the nearby Titanic in April 1912 and yet did nothing to assist. - Baker & Taylor
A fictional retelling of the command and crew of the SS Californian, who bore witness to the eight distress rockets fired by the nearby Titanic as it sank on the night of April 14, 1912, and yet did nothing to assist. - McMillan Palgrave
As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.
Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel--the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.