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Destiny's Voyage: SS Atlantic, Titanic of 1873

by Robert Bob Love

The SS Atlantic and the White Star Line’s earlier disaster

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The SS Atlantic and the White Star Line’s earlier disaster

Robert Bob Love’s account centers on the SS Atlantic, an early White Star Line steamship whose voyage ended in disaster off Nova Scotia in 1873. The description places the ship in the history of luxury ocean liners and connects its loss with the better-known Titanic, while focusing on the Atlantic’s passengers and the circumstances surrounding the voyage’s diversion to Halifax. It also highlights details including Irish emigrants boarding at Queenstown, the fate of women and children, and the actions of Anglican priest Reverend Ancient. Together, these subjects frame the shipwreck as both a maritime history and an account of the people aboard.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in maritime history and shipwrecks
  • Readers curious about the history of the White Star Line and the Titanic’s predecessor
  • Readers interested in historical accounts of passenger voyages and emigration

Themes

Maritime disasterWhite Star Line historyPassenger decisions and fateIrish emigration

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Book overview

History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic's ancestor of the White Star Line. the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a journey about the first of the White Star Line's luxury, steel hull steamships which still carried her sails. Why did the Atlantic divert her voyage to New York to sail to Halifax, leading her to crash on Nova Scotia's granite shore. This story tells of the Destiny of not only the ship herself but of her passengers who made fatal decisions to be on board. Like the RMS Titanic the SS Atlantic carried eleven multi-millionaires, leaders of industry, Learn why Mrs. Rowden insisted on leaving the ship in Queenstown, Ireland where 160 Irish citizens boarded for the new America dream, and the carpet baggers revolt. The loss of all women and children except young John Hindley. The heroism of the Anglican Priest, Reverend Ancient. This journey will make you reflect upon your own path to Destiny. It is not just about a shipwreck but the web creating the destiny of a mighty ocean liner and over one thousand souls in her care. The SS Atlantic the ancestor of the RMS Titanic
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