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Doomed Ships
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Author : William H., Jr. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Doomed Ships written by William H., Jr. Miller and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with Transportation categories.
Nearly 200 photographs, many from private collections, highlight tales of some of the vessels whose pleasure cruises ended in catastrophe: the Morro Castle, Normandie, Andrea Doria, Europa, and many others.
Doomed Ships
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Author : Penny Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Doomed Ships written by Penny Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Curiosities and wonders categories.
Offers a catalogue of maritime disasters, from the earliest times to the present day - right up to the Cutty Sark fire of 2007. This title presents the Titanic, the Mary Rose, the Mary Celeste and the legendary Flying Dutchman. It helps you find out how shipwrecks happen and how scientists explore underwater remains.
Doomed Ships
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Author : G. H. Teed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-11-20
Doomed Ships written by G. H. Teed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-20 with categories.
The Flying Dutchman
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Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-04
The Flying Dutchman written by Megan Cooley Peterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with categories.
The Doomed Ship
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Author : William Hurton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
The Doomed Ship written by William Hurton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Arctic regions categories.
The Story Of Doomed Ships
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Author : Penny Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Koala Books
Release Date : 2008
The Story Of Doomed Ships written by Penny Clarke and has been published by Koala Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Curiosities and wonders categories.
The Wreck Of The Portland
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Author : J. North Conway
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-01
The Wreck Of The Portland written by J. North Conway and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-01 with History categories.
The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England's largest and most luxurious paddle steamers, and after nine years' solid performance, she had earned a reputation as a safe and dependable vessel. In November 1898, a perfect storm formed off the New England coast. Conditions would produce a blizzard with 100 miles per hour winds and 60-foot waves that pummeled the coast. At the time there was no radio communication between ships and shore, no sonar to navigate by, and no vastly sophisticated weather forecasting capacity. The luxurious SS Portland, a sidewheel steamer furnished with chandeliers, red velvet carpets and fine china, was carrying more than 200 passengers from Boston to Portland, Maine, over Thanksgiving weekend when it ran headlong into a monstrous, violent gale off Cade Cod. It was never seen again. All passengers and crew were lost at sea. More than half the crew on board were African Americans from Portland. Their deaths decimated the Maine African American community. Before the storm abated it became one of the worst ever recorded in New England waters. The storm, now known as “The Portland Gale,” killed 400 people along the coast and sent more than 200 ships to the bottom, including the doomed Portland. To this day it is not known exactly how many passengers were aboard or even who many of them were. The only passenger list was aboard the vessel. As a result of this tragedy, ships would thereafter leave a passenger manifest ashore. The disaster has been blamed on the hubris of the captain of the Portland, Hollis Blanchard, who decided to leave the safety of Boston Harbor despite knowing that a severe storm was hurtling up the coast. Blanchard, a long-time mariner, had been passed over for a promotion for a younger captain. He decided he wanted to show the steamship company that they had made a mistake by getting the Portland safely into port ahead of the imminent storm. Author J. North Conway has created here a personal, visceral account of the sinking and the times and the people involved, with stories to bring readers onto the Portland that day: Here is Eben Heuston, the chief steward onboard the ill-fated ship. More than half of the crew of the ship were African Americans. Hueston was an African American who lived in the Portland community of Munjoy Hill and was a member of the Abyssinian Church. After the sinking of the Portland the African American community disappeared and the church closed. And Emily Cobb a nineteen year old singer from Portland’s First Parish Church who was scheduled to give her first recital at the church on that Sunday. And Hope Thomas who came to Boston to shop for Christmas and because she decided to exchange some shoes she purchased missed taking the ill-fated Portland. Because of the lack of communications from Maine to Cape Cod, it was days before anyone was able to get word about the fate of the ship or survivors. Author J. North Conway has painstakingly recreated the events, using first-hand sources and testimonies to weave a dramatic, can’t-put-it down narrative in the tradition of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Walter Lord’s enduring classic, A Night to Remember. He brings the tragedy to life with contemporaneous accounts the Coast Guard, from Boston newspapers such as the Globe, Herald, and Journal, and from The New York Times and the Brooklyn DailyEagle.
Seafaring History Doomed Ships General Grant And Herald Of Free Enterprise
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Author : Dieter Wehnert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Seafaring History Doomed Ships General Grant And Herald Of Free Enterprise written by Dieter Wehnert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Ghost Ships
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Author : Kevin Hile
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2008-10-31
Ghost Ships written by Kevin Hile and has been published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The sea has long provided humankind with wonder, and delightful or demented imaginations along with it. This book provides eyewitness accounts, paired with alternative explanations, to explore legends surrounding the mysterious appearances of ghost ships.
Building The Titanic
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Author : Sean McCollum
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Building The Titanic written by Sean McCollum and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The builders of the Titanic envisioned a ship more powerful and luxurious than anything the world had ever seen. Meet the wealthy investors, the talented engineers, and the hard working laborers who all played a role in building a floating palace that would soon end up on the ocean floor.