The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder

Chapter I The Great Britain Mission

The Hawker Hurricane, one of the most famous British fighters of WWII was never designed and built stripping Great Britain of the needed help during the Battle of Britain and ensuring that they lost not only that battle but the war. Once the Royal Air Force was defeated, Hitler’s armies invaded and conquered the island nation. They then took the rest of Europe and later Canada with their next target: The United States of America. All of this happens because a horse and buggy ran down the aircraft designer, Sydney Camm when he was a little boy. The 1800 Club is given the mission to go back and prevent that from happening and the club’s president, William Scott, decides to take two other time traveling companions along with him. It turns out that there is enough twists and turns for the three men.

Chapter II The Jessie James Mission

When young Jessie ran with Quantrill’s Raiders during the Civil War, he found a letter written in French inside of a strongbox they had taken from a Union wagon train. Having learned French at an early age, he realized how significant the letter was. It was written in code and was being sent to a Southern sympathizer telling him to do an act that could change the outcome of the war. When the Time Watchers of the future see it, they realize that if the letter was discovered a major friendly nation would be highly embarrassed. Thus the start of the mission to go back and get the letter. However, it turns out that Jessie James wants to trade a slight change in history for it.

Bringing Him Back - While a confirmed bachelor tells how his true love broke his heart during World War II, he finally learns the truth as to why she married another man.

Follow Your Heart - An engaged women accidentally time travels back to 1947 Los Angeles, where she falls in love with another man. She wants to stay, but another rival for his love forces her t

Chapter 1 The Wright Brothers Mission

What happens to the world of aviation if the Wright brothers are not the first to fly? Chances are very good that the French would have that honor and take over as the aviation leaders of the world. However, they would probably keep the flying to a selected few who would consider it a flight of fancy while the Germans would be producing powerful fighters and bombers thus changing how WWI ends. The 1800 Club must send back a club member with aviation knowledge and that turns out to be John Brand, a writer for an aviation magazine and ex-air force officer. He is shocked when he finds out the reason the brothers stopped trying to fly.

Chapter II The Hindenburg Mission

What happens if the Hindenburg blows up over the North Sea instead of over Lakehurst New Jersey as it really did? There would be no survivors, as all would drown in the North Sea causing their children and future ancestors not to exist. Doctors, artists, lawyers, statesmen and just ordinary family people will not have had the chance to help the world grow with their knowledge and arts. Once again John Brand is sent back to stop the bomb from ending the trip across the Atlantic Ocean thus ensuring that the airship keeps its date with history and blow up over Lakehurst New Jersey. Something else he must do is to get out of the doomed airship before it explodes and there are other elements trying to stop that from happening.

Chapter I The Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Mission

World War 1 is almost over when suddenly Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America’s top ace, is shot down. With his loss goes his drive to make flying a safe, every day convenience by becoming president of American Airlines and later during WWII, was an advisor to the president. Once again the 1800 Club taps a member to go back only to find out that he would be no match against a WWI German fighter pilot. He presents the club with his idea: Send back his grandfather.

Chapter II The Amelia Earhart Mission

What happens when Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, completes the around-the-world flight that she originally disappeared on? Japan thinks that she was taking photographs of Truk, one of their naval staging islands, and attacks the U.S. earlier than she originally did. Signing a pact with Mexico Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor but invades from Mexico and other spots along the Pacific coast. The club’s president, William Scott decides to send pilot John Brand back with him as a co-pilot. They must fly thousands of miles in an aircraft from the future to guide Amelia and Fred to a better ending.

Chapter 1 The Mark Twain Mission

There is a tremendous explosion on a docked steamboat and the levees of New Orleans are destroyed. The city is flooded and a young Mark Twain vanishes in the muddy waters of the Mississippi River. Not only will the future generations never get to read some of his best works but also the city will never become the great port and vacation center it is today. The 1800 club must send a member back and stop the explosion. They need a member who has an understanding of steamboats and their engines and selects Tommy “Whitey” Madden, a New York City detective. Tommy finds out that in order to prevent the explosion from becoming history he must inform Mark Twain about his mission and inadvertently gives him an idea for one of his most popular stories.

Chapter 2 The Ronald Reagan Mission

Why would Ronald Reagan simply never exist? It was during his time as President of the United States that the Soviet Union was challenged by him to tear down the Berlin Wall beginning the end of the Cold War. If he wasn’t around to become president, who would take his place? Find out how an Italian/American and a Scottish man-o-war fights a British man-o-war to save the future President of the United States.

Chapter I The Ulysses S. Grant Mission

What would happen if the Confederate Forces captured General Ulysses S. Grant? First off, he was the best general the Union Forces had and that could open the way for the North to lose the war. Secondly, he would never have become President of the United States of America, as he would not have been the hero he was. And with the Confederacy winning the war, Great Britain might have entered the war on their side. This would have split America up forever ensuring that neither would become a super power and after awhile Japan would be the real power in the Pacific. The club sends Robert Andrews, a world-class balloonist and hang glider to prevent this from happening. After a long train and boat ride with Union Forces he finally gets to the General when things quickly go wrong. With the help of Angie Verdi, a pretty seamstress and volunteer nurse, Robert chooses to use technology from our time to complete the mission.

Chapter II The Civil War Spirit Mission

Why would a Union soldier’s spirit linger around the battlefield for a few hundred years? This question was answered by a special mission back to the time of the Civil War by one of the Time Watchers group, Fred Wiatre. As a club member he dresses like his ancestor did, a Captain in the Union Army and easily enters the camp where Trooper Ponds, the future ghost, is alive and well. His mission: To find the reason that Trooper Ponds stays around after he’s killed.

CHAPTER 1

When a time probes alerts the Time Watchers that, ‘Jack The Ripper’ is up to his old tricks again and his next victim is an ancestor of one of the bodyguards of President Ronald Reagan when there was an assassination attempt on his life, the club voted to act and stop him. Twist after twist leads this club member in circles before he meets The Ripper face-to-face and answers the century old mystery

CHAPTER 2

What if the Boeing Aircraft Company had never existed in the United States of America because Boeing’s father lost his ticket to America at the dock he was to leave from in Europe? One tragic outcome would be that the Boeing B-17 and B-29 would never had been built prolonging the war and the number of men and women who would never return to their homes marrying and generating Lawyers, Teachers, Artists, Engineers and many just average folk. The club realizes this and sends a club member back to get the Boeing senior’s ticket for his historic trip. However the time traveler bumps into something that he always believed to be a piece of fiction . . . until he finds it to be as real as time travel.

In the 2150's, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn't know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The U.S. government wants him to find out. The theme being to make right what once went wrong.

Features:
Wounded Knee 1890
Titanic in 1912
Anne Frank in 1940
Roswell 1947
JFK and the assassination in 1963
Apollo 13
Skylab
Challenger in 1986