TITANIC AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Book

If you are a Titanic fan, this book will excite you.

Donald Lynch has the greatest job I could ever wish for. He has spent years researching and interviewing Titanic survivors and family of survivors.

This book's acutal photos of individuals are spooky to me. Even those who survived. The eyes seem to look right through me.

I am particularly curious about one of the facts mentioned on Page 194 of the book.

"More speculative still are the stories of a large gold shipment on board. One perpetuator of this legend was Storekeeper Frank Prentice, who years later would recall helping to bring gold and silver bars aboard. Researches point out that the cargo manifest does not show such a shipment, though this fact does not necessarily eliminate the possibility that gold was carried. Gold shipments made as part of the balance of trade between England and the United States were regularly sent on Royal Mail Steamers as part of the mail, and so not charged as cargo. Unfortunately, The Bank of England seals its records for one hundred years. If indeed such a shipment existed, it was a secret kept from the news-hungry journalists of 1912."

With this information in hand, I am wondering if anyone is requesting to see the sealed records? Time is just about up.

I continue to enjoy reading about the Titanic and will forever remain curious about the people who perished and those who survived.