The Ship of Dreams. Gareth Russell

Copyright

       Praise

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Dramatis Personae

       Author’s Note

      1. The Lords Act

2. The Sash My Father Wore

3. Southampton

4. A Contest of Sea Giants

5. A Safe Harbour for Ships

       6. The Lucky Holdup

       7. A Decent Wee Man

       8. A Kind of Hieroglyphic World

       9. Its Own Appointed Limits Keep

       10. Two More Boilers

       11. A Thousand Uneasy Sparks of Light

       12. Going Up to See the Fun

       13. Music in the First-Class Lounge

       14. Vox faucibus haesit

       15. Be British

       16. Over the Top Together

       17. The Awful Spectacle

       18. Grip Fast

       19. Where’s Daddy?

       20. Extend Heartfelt Sympathy to All

       21. The Spinner of the Years

       Picture Section

       Footnotes

       Notes

       Glossary

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

By the Same Author

       About the Publisher

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES

      LUCY-NOËLLE-MARTHA LESLIE, Countess of Rothes

      NORMAN LESLIE, 19TH EARL OF ROTHES, her husband

      MALCOLM, VISCOUNT LESLIE, their eldest son, later 20th Earl of Rothes

      THE HONOURABLE JOHN LESLIE, their youngest son

      GLADYS CHERRY, the Earl’s cousin and the Countess’s travelling companion

      CLEMENTINA and THOMAS DYER-EDWARDES, the Countess’s parents

      ROBERTA (‘CISSY’) MAIONI, the Countess’s lady’s maid

      THOMAS ANDREWS

      THOMAS ANDREWS, Managing Director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard

      HELEN ANDREWS, his wife

      ELIZABETH ANDREWS, their daughter

      WILLIAM, 1ST LORD PIRRIE, Thomas’s uncle, Chairman of Harland and Wolff

      THE STRAUSES

      IDA STRAUS, a philanthropist

      ISIDOR STRAUS, Ida’s husband, a former congressman for New York and co-owner of Macy’s department store

      ELLEN BIRD, Ida’s lady’s maid

      JOHN FARTHING, Isidor’s valet

JESSE STRAUS CLARENCE STRAUS PERCY STRAUS SARA HESS MINNIE WEIL HERBERT STRAUS VIVIAN SCHEFTEL

Ida and Isidor’s children

      THE THAYERS

      JOHN BORLAND THAYER, Second Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad

      MARIAN THAYER, his wife

      JOHN BORLAND THAYER III (‘JACK’), their eldest child

      MARGARET FLEMING, Marian’s lady’s maid

FREDERICK THAYER MARGARET THAYER (LATER TALBOTT) PAULINE THAYER (LATER DOLAN)

The Thayers’ younger children

      DOROTHY GIBSON

      DOROTHY GIBSON, an actress

      PAULINE GIBSON, her mother

      GEORGE BATTIER, Dorothy’s husband

      JULES BRULATOUR, a movie producer and Dorothy’s lover

      LEONARD GIBSON, Dorothy’s stepfather

      OTHER RELEVANT PASSENGERS

      RHODA ABBOTT, a Salvation Army officer, travelling in Third Class

      MADELEINE and COLONEL JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV

      ALGERNON BARKWORTH, a landowner from Yorkshire

      LAWRENCE BEESLEY, a science teacher, travelling in Second Class, subsequently author of The Loss of the S.S. Titanic

      MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT, Military Aide to President William Howard Taft

      CHARLOTTE DRAKE CARDEZA, a socialite from Pennsylvania

      ELEANOR CASSEBEER, returning home to New York

      LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON, a fashion designer

      ELIZABETH EUSTIS and MARTHA STEPHENSON, sisters and neighbours of the Thayers

      COLONEL ARCHIBALD GRACIE IV, an historian and friend of the Strauses

      J. BRUCE ISMAY, Managing Director of the White Star Line

      FRANCIS (‘FRANK’) MILLET, a painter, author and sculptor

      ALFRED NOURNEY, a car salesman travelling under the pseudonym of a German baron

      EMILY and ARTHUR RYERSON, friends of the Thayers, returning home after their son’s death

      FREDERIC SEWARD, a New York-based lawyer and a bridge partner of Dorothy Gibson

      WILLIAM SLOPER, an American stockbroker, who also played bridge with Dorothy Gibson

      ELEANOR and GEORGE WIDENER, prominent members of Philadelphia Society and friends of the Thayers

      RELEVANT MEMBERS OF THE CREW

      HAROLD BRIDE, the Titanic’s Junior