She was the largest, fastest, and latest thing in seagoing destroyers, and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots' speed, she had made thirty-eight on her trial trip, and later, under careful nursing by her engineers, she had increased this to forty knots an hour-five knots faster than any craft afloat-and, with a clean bottom, this speed could be depended upon at any time it was needed. She carried four twenty-one-inch torpedo tubes and a battery of six twelve-pounder, rapid-fire guns; also, she carried two large searchlights and a wireless equipment of seventy miles...
She was the largest, fastest, and latest thing in seagoing destroyers, and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots' speed, she had m...
THE WORLD'S GREATEST MARITIME TRAGEDY The world's greatest ocean liner crosses the ocean. The largest, most luxurious liner ever to set sail, the Titan is doomed never to make port, but is instead fated to meet her final rest at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. Morgan Robertson's novella is famed for its remarkable similarities to the real-life tragedy which befell the legendary liner, the RMS Titanic fourteen years after the novella was published. Contains four stories THE WRECK OF THE TITAN THE PIRATES BEYOND THE SPECTRUM IN THE VALLEY OF THE...
THE WORLD'S GREATEST MARITIME TRAGEDY The world's greatest ocean liner crosses the ocean. The largest, most luxurious liner ever to set sail, the Tita...
