Lifeboat No 8 An Untold Tale of Love Loss and Surviving the Titanic

When the Titanic started sinking, who would make it off alive? The two cousins who had been so eager to see their first iceberg? The maid who desperately tried to escape with the baby in her care? The young newlyweds who’d booked passage despite warnings not to? One hundred years after that disastrous and emblematic voyage, Elizabeth Kaye reveals the extraordinary, little-known story behind one of the first lifeboats to leave the doomed ship. Told in real time and in the actual voices of survivors, Kaye’s poignant, pulse-pounding narrative includes the story of the Countess of Rothes, the wealthiest woman on the ship, bound for California, where she and her husband planned to start an orange farm. It was the Countess, dressed in ermine and pearls, who took command of Lifeboat No. 8, rowing for hours through the black and icy water. In the words of one of the Titanic’s crew, she was “more of a man than any we have on board.” At the heart of Kaye’s tale is a budding rom...

Author: Kaye Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781614520276
Year of publication: 2012
Genre: Historical romance novels
Number of pages: 47
Reading time: 47 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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