Each bibliography on this page will be broken down into two sections. Section one will include all books where the primary topic is the shipwreck in question. The titles will be sorted alphabetically by author. Section two will include anthologies that contain at least one chapter on the wreck. Other sources, such as magazine articles, will also be included in this latter section.
The bibliographies listed below are arranged by the name of the ship involved in the disaster. A comment at the end of each listing will state when each bibliography was first added to the site.
Arctic. She was one of the largest, most luxurious ocean liners of her time. Her parent company was American owned, and in fierce competition with the Cunard Line for mastery of the Atlantic passenger and mail service. But we are not talking about the White Star Line and her
Olympic class ships. Rather the time is over 60 years earlier. The company trying to best Cunard was the Collin’s Line, and the pride of their fleet were the wooden hulled, paddle wheel steamers
Atlantic,
Pacific and
Arctic. The tragedy of the
Arctic has been mostly lost to history, but in its time it affected the world as powerfully as
Titanic would decades later.This bibliography was firsted posted October, 2004.