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

    By Elizabeth Kaye

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    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?

    More than 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. A Second Edition of the This New York Times and Kindle best seller, it has been freshly edited and expanded by the author with new material.

    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 romance between the Countess's maid, Roberta Maioni, and the Titanic's valiant wireless operator, Jack Phillips. While Roberta made it safely onto Lifeboat No. 8, holding nothing but a photo of Jack she had run back to her cabin to retrieve, he remained on the ship, where he would send out the world's first SOS signal. But would it be received in time to save his life?

    Surviving that fateful night in the North Atlantic was not the end of the saga for those aboard Lifeboat No 8. Kaye reveals what happened to each passenger and crew member and how the legendary maritime disaster haunted them forever.

    A century later, we're still captivated by the Titanic and its passengers. With its skillful use of survivors' letters, diaries, and testimonies, "Lifeboat No. 8" adds a dramatic new chapter to the ongoing story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Sager Group
    Release dateMar 15, 2018
    ISBN9780999633847
    Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic
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    Elizabeth Kaye

    Elizabeth Kaye is an award-winning journalist who has written five books on subjects ranging from the Los Angeles Lakers to American Ballet Theatre. Her most recent ebook, Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic, rose to #1 on the Amazon and New York Times ebook bestseller lists.

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    • 3/5
      Worth reading for anyone interested in the Titanic.
    • 4/5
      This is a novelised version of what happened on the Titanic's lifeboat no 8 (the one where the women did the rowing and some of the seamen refused to turn back to pick up any survivors). It is based on testimony from those survivors, so is historically accurate, as far as it can reasonably be, given the likelihood of differing perceptions of the truth under such extreme stress; and allowing for a measure of creativity in the presentation of the exact dialogue. Although as gripping as one would expect in the right places, it is told in rather a matter of fact way and sheds no real new light on these events. The ship doesn't split in two here. 3.5/5
    • 3/5
      Lifeboat No. 8 is literally the story of how the passengers in lifeboat no. 8 came to be there. Nothing earth shattering; they were all women except for the Captain and 2 oarers. The short story focused on two of these women, period. After I read it I asked, why? Why was this written and why did I read it? Also, the numbers in the book concerning deaths was totally off.
    • 3/5
      A single-sitting-read e-book, and at 59 pages, more on the order of a long New Yorker article, Lifeboat No. 9 tells the story of the last hours of the ocean liner Titanic as she sank into the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. The book concentrates on the experiences of the occupants of Lifeboat No. 8, especially those of the Countess of Rothes, who was noted that night for both her bravery and her honor.Not much new ground to plow here in a story that has been told many times before, but since it's the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the great ship, it made for a quick and easy read on a dreary Saturday afternoon.
    • 5/5
      Didnt take much time to finish and is well worth it.

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    Lifeboat No. 8 - Elizabeth Kaye

    Lifeboat No. 8

    An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic

    By Elizabeth Kaye

    Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic
    Copyright © 2012, 2018 Elizabeth Kaye
    First issue, Byliner Selects, 2012
    Second Edition, The Sager Group LLC, 2018
    All rights reserved.
    No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published in the United States of America.
    Cover image by William Duke, based on Untergang der Titanic, by Willy Stöwer, 1912.
    Cover Designed by Siori Kitajima, SF AppWorks LLC
    Formatting by Ovidiu Vlad, SF AppWorks LLC
    http://sfappworks.com
    Cataloging-in-Publication data for this book is available from the Library of Congress
    ISBN-13: 978-0-9996338-4-7
    ISBN-10: 0-9996338-4-8
    Published by The Sager Group LLC
    www.TheSagerGroup.net
    info@MikeSager.com

    Publisher’s Note

    Welcome to the new Second Edition of Lifeboat No. 8. After the shuttering of the initial publisher, Byliner Selects—which caused this Kindle and New York Times #1 and bestseller to fall into the purgatory of discontinued titles—the book has been refurbished, repackaged, reedited (by the author) and republished, with new material added.

    Author’s Note

    When I began writing Lifeboat No. 8, I thought I knew quite a lot about the Titanic, but that information, as it turned out, was merely a roster of facts, the essential parameters of her timeless saga: the mighty and exquisite ship of dreams, the vessel that God himself couldn’t sink, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and disappears beneath the sea, taking more than fifteen hundred human souls with her.

    One of many things that eluded me was the degree of unremitting fascination the Titanic engenders, an actuality that became more than obvious in April 2012, the centennial of her sinking.

    In addition to numerous books, of which mine was one, there were memorial cruises attended by men and women clad in Edwardian garb; there were tours of cemeteries in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New York City, where survivors are buried; in Philadelphia there was a $95 ten-course dinner that featured oysters, poached peaches, and squab, by way of replicating the final meal served to the first-class passengers.

    There were exhibits throughout the United States: at San Diego’s Natural History Museum, In Dearborn Michigan at the Henry Ford Museum, in Kansas City at Union Station, at a venue on International Drive in Orlando. There was Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, which toured dozens of cities, while Titanic: 100 Year Obsession, was on view at the National Geographic Museum, and Titanic—12,450 Feet Below was installed at Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium.

    In Singapore, the Marina Bay Sands offered re-creations of first- and third-class cabins, the Verandah Café, the Promenade Deck, the Boiler Room, and the Grand Staircase. In Las Vegas, the Luxor hotel and casino featured items culled from the wreckage field in the North Atlantic: floor tiles from the first-class smoking room, an unopened bottle of champagne with a 1900 vintage, and a twenty-six-foot-long section of Titanic’s hull weighing 15,000 tons.

    In Southampton, England, the town that had furnished most of Titanic’s crew and lost 549 residents in the sinking, the Sea City Museum opened on April 10, 2012, exactly one hundred years after the day on which the Titanic set off from the city’s port on her first and only voyage. Finally, there was the newly opened Titanic Belfast, an interactive museum built beside the dry dock and Slipway No. 3 where Titanic was constructed and offering, as their advertising puts it, "the entire Titanic story from her birth in Belfast to the fateful maiden voyage and her eventual discovery on the seabed."

    This was a mind-boggling array of events, and through them, and the process of researching and writing Lifeboat No. 8, I came to perceive the epic dimensions of the Titanic’s story and to apprehend why it has secured its place as one of the most compelling and enduring tales in human history.

    Even by contemporary standards, the Titanic was an astonishing beauty whose unprecedented size, surpassingly clean lines, and elegant proportions made her, paradoxically, a graceful leviathan. What I had not realized was that she was also a technological wonder, a ship that was, in her time, the largest man-made moving object ever created and the greatest feat of engineering to be imagined and brought into being.

    The mammoth task of her construction had required the skills, brawn, and sweat of fifteen thousand

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