Charles lightoller autobiography

Lightoller remarkably swam away from the sinking Titanic and avoided being sucked under.
An amazing book by the only Officer to survive the TITANIC disaster.
Now some ten years previously, a relation of mine, one Charles Lightoller, had left England (no, not necessarily for the country's good, though I will admit he.

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Titanic by Second Officer C. H. Lightoller

Kenneth More played the role of Charles H. Lightoller in the 1957 film, A Night to Remember and in Cameron’s 1997 version, TITANIC, “Lights” is not portrayed as the heroic character seen earlier. What was the real C. H. Lightoller like? In 1935 his autobiography “Titanic and other Ships” now a hard to find and out of print book, describes his colorful life and years at sea including shipwrecks, fires and twenty working with the White Star Line. This publication concentrates on his experiences with Titanic from her week of preparations at Southampton and finding his way around the huge new ship, to collision with the iceberg, loading the lifeboats, her sinking and his miraculous rescue. An exciting and true tale written by one of the primary survivors of the disaster.

Illustrated. 42 pages. Softback

Weight	4 oz
Dimensions	11 × 9 × 0.25 in

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Titanic and Other Ships

December 30, 2022

Hero, war criminal, cowboy, proud owner of a banjo, and absolutely full of shit, Lightoller knew how to spin a yarn. As for writing, well, he never said that was one of his many trades. Expect to have a few tabs open to understand the nautical nonsense--he did not dumb it down or dial it back in his autobiography as he did for the American Senate Inquiry.

As others have said, if you're looking for Titanic, you might want to look elsewhere. I hear there's great biographies on Murdoch, specifically. But if you want to hear a first hand, undoubtedly exaggerated account of what at least one officer got up to before swapping to steamers, you really can't go wrong with And Other Ships. It's humanizing, simultaneously grounding Lights from the glory of the 1958 A Night to Remember film, and offering a more sympathetic look at the man that just wouldn't let Jack in the damn boat.

He was, of course, a product of his time, and about what you could expect from a proud English nationalist at the turn of the 20th century. But my god, was he interesti