Click2Disasters - The Titanic - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE <i>TITANIC</i></b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="90%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="the_titanic_ch1.htm"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch2.htm">2. <i>TITANIC</i> - INSIDE AND OUT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch3.htm">3. <i>TITANIC'S</i> CREW</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch4.htm">4. MAIDEN VOYAGE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch5.htm">5. THE PASSENGERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch6.htm">6. ICEBERGS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch7.htm">7. <i>TITANIC'S</i> WIRELESS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch8.htm">8. ICE WARNINGS IGNORED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch9.htm">9. "ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch10.htm">10. A DOOMED SHIP</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch11.htm">11. DOOMED PASSENGERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch12.htm">12. WIRELESS TRANSMISSIONS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch13.htm">13. RESCUE OF THE LIVING</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch14.htm">14. RECOVERY OF THE DEAD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch15.htm">15. NEWSFLASH!</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch16.htm">16. HEROES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch17.htm">17. A DISINTEGRATING VESSEL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="the_titanic_ch18.htm">18. THE REST OF THE STORY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">Not even God himself <a href="http://www.si.edu/postal/titanic/unsinkable.html" target="_blank">can sink</a> this ship.</b></i></font><br><br> <font face="arial, helvetica" size="2">White Star Line Employee<br> At <i>Titanic's</i><br> May 31, 1911</font></b></center><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Father Frank Browne’s uncle had given his nephew a unique present: a ticket for the first two legs of Titanic’s maiden voyage. As the world’s <a href="http://www.titanic.com/take/titplan.gif" target="_blank"><b>largest ship</b></a> left her home port of Southampton to pick up passengers in <a href="http://website.lineone.net/~stu_williamson/big%20pics/Jewel%20big.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Cherbourg</b></a>, France and Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, Father Frank was aboard.</p> <p>Such a gift was everything the Irish Jesuit, picture-taking priest could have imagined. But there was one more thing he desired: to stay aboard Titanic as the world’s largest ship completed her maiden voyage to New York. An American millionaire offered to pay his way.</p> <p>Excitedly, Father Browne sought permission from his superior. The answer was not what the traveling priest wanted to hear:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Get off that ship!</b></i></font></center> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Turns out, it was the best message <a href="http://www.fatherbrowne.com/IMAGES/GRAPHICS/ContentsPortrait.JPG" target="_blank"><b>Father Frank</b></a> could have received. And, because of it, his world-famous photographs still enlighten people about the <a href="http://www.fatherbrowne.com/IMAGES/Titanic/p%20rear%20view.jpg" target="_blank"><b>doomed ship</b></a>. (Follow the link to Father Browne’s last photo of Titanic as she left Queenstown for New York.)</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="the_titanic_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_self"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></a></center></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>