Down in the fiery belly of the luxury liners of the Titanic era, a
world away from the first-class dining rooms and sedate tours of
the deck, toiled the ‘black gang’. Their work was gruelling and
hot, and here deKerbrech introduces the reader to the dimly lit
world and workplace of Titanic’s stokers. Beginning with a
journey around some of the major elements of machinery that one
might encounter in the giant ships’ engine and boiler rooms, the
sheer skill and strength that a man in this employ must have had is
brought to the fore. The human side of working for Titanic and her
contemporaries is also explored through an investigation of
stokers’ duties, their environment and conditions: what it was
like to be one of them. An oft-ignored part of Titanic’s story,
the importance of the black gang and the job they performed is
brought to life, making poignant their fate on the maiden crossing
of Titanic. This certainly is a book that no Titanic-era shipping
historian or researcher should be without.
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