Titanic From Rare Historical Reports
by Peter Boyd-Smith
Format: Hardback
Date of publication: 1992
Publisher: Steamship Publications
ISBN: 9780952369608
Based on newspaper accounts from April 5th until May 7th 1912, this book offers a vivid insight into the media's account of the disaster.
Peter Boyd-Smith is an English maritime historian and a leading expert on the Titanic. He was born in 1947. Peter Boyd-Smith operates an ocean liner and aviation memorabilia shop called 'Cobwebs' at Northam in Southampton and also lectures and advises navies and shipping companies worldwide on maritime history, particularly with regard to the Titanic but also in respect of historical accuracy regarding individual ships.