Shipwrecks Of The Rhode Island Coast

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Shipwrecks Of The Rhode Island Coast

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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09

Shipwrecks Of The Rhode Island Coast written by Source Wikipedia and has been published by University-Press.org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: German submarine U-853, HMS Endeavour, HMS Lark (1762), HMS Liberty (1768), USS Cero (SP-1189), USS G-1 (SS-191/2), USS Leyden (1865), USS Sealion (SS-315), USS Snowden (DE-246), Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark. Excerpt: ) HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771. Launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, she was purchased by the Navy in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean, and to explore the seas for the surmised Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land." Renamed and commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier. In April 1770, Endeavour became the first seagoing vessel to reach the east coast of Australia, when Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay. Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast. She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and was beached on the mainland for seven weeks to permit rudimentary repairs to her hull. On 10 October 1770, she limped into port in Batavia (now named Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had discovered. She resumed her westward journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 13.

Rhode Island Shipwrecks

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Author : Charlotte Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-24

Rhode Island Shipwrecks written by Charlotte Taylor and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with Nature categories.

Rhode Island, the Ocean State, has more shipwrecks per square mile than any other state. The south coast and Block Island are the resting places of many shipwrecks, with many more located in Narragansett Bay. The record of shipwrecks in Rhode Island begins immediately after the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century with the grounding of a Dutch trading vessel, and thousands more vessels came to grief in its waters in the following centuries, through bad weather, human error, equipment failure, and military action. Some of these shipwrecks were epic disasters, with many fatalities and the total loss of the vessel; others were relatively minor misfortunes in which the ships were salvageable. Many shipwrecks from the 19th century on into the 20th were captured in the dramatic images gathered here. These pictures show the variety of vessels that travelled Rhode Island’s waters back when the ocean was the primary transportation corridor and the many ways in which they met misfortune.

Shipwrecks Of The United States

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Author : Jim Jenney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Shipwrecks Of The United States written by Jim Jenney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.

Revised List Of Wrecks And Casualties That Have Occured Within Limits Of The 3rd Life Saving District Coast Of Rhode Island And Fishers Island 1752 1907

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Author : United States. Coast Guard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907

Revised List Of Wrecks And Casualties That Have Occured Within Limits Of The 3rd Life Saving District Coast Of Rhode Island And Fishers Island 1752 1907 written by United States. Coast Guard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Shipwrecks categories.

Lighthouses And Life Saving Along The Connecticut And Rhode Island Coast

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Author : James Clafin
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2001-06

Lighthouses And Life Saving Along The Connecticut And Rhode Island Coast written by James Clafin and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06 with History categories.

Lighthouses and Life Saving along the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coast is the third in a series of titles offering a unique tribute to the men and women who protected the mariners as they traveled along New England's rocky coastline. Thousands of vessels faced the dangers of the rugged sea which caused hundreds of shipwrecks off the coast with devastating losses. Author James Claflin combines a thoroughly descriptive text with this diverse collection of over two hundred vintage images, from private as well as museum collections, to create an illustrated history of an area strongly reliant on its coastal trade. The U.S. Light-House Establishment and the U.S. Life-Saving Service, which later merged to become the U.S. Coast Guard, assumed the responsibility of lighting and protecting the coasts. Inside, you will see the lighthouse keeper at Bullock's Point Light as he surveys the damage from the Hurricane of 1938, witness the life savers at Block Island's Sandy Point Station where first word of the wreck of the steamer Larchmont was received, and experience life on an offshore lightship. The book guides you through the days of the life savers-the work they performed, their rescues, and the evolution of their architecture through the years.

A Diver S Guide To Rhode Island

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Author : Jim Jenney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982

A Diver S Guide To Rhode Island written by Jim Jenney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Scuba diving categories.

The Palatine Wreck

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Author : Jill Farinelli
language : en
Publisher: University Press of New England
Release Date : 2017-09-05

The Palatine Wreck written by Jill Farinelli and has been published by University Press of New England this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.

Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest Germany. The 105 passengers and crew on board-sick, frozen, and starving-were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. They now found themselves castaways, on the verge of death, and at the mercy of a community of strangers whose language they did not speak. Shortly after the wreck, rumors began to circulate that the passengers had been mistreated by the ship's crew and by some of the islanders. The stories persisted, transforming over time as stories do and, in less than a hundred years, two terrifying versions of the event had emerged. In one account, the crew murdered the captain, extorted money from the passengers by prolonging the voyage and withholding food, then abandoned ship. In the other, the islanders lured the ship ashore with a false signal light, then murdered and robbed all on board. Some claimed the ship was set ablaze to hide evidence of these crimes, their stories fueled by reports of a fiery ghost ship first seen drifting in Block Island Sound on the one-year anniversary of the wreck. These tales became known as the legend of the Palatine, the name given to the ship in later years, when its original name had been long forgotten. The flaming apparition was nicknamed the Palatine Light. The eerie phenomenon has been witnessed by hundreds of people over the centuries, and numerous scientific theories have been offered as to its origin. Its continued reappearances, along with the attention of some of nineteenth-century America's most notable writers-among them Richard Henry Dana Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Edward Everett Hale, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson-has helped keep the legend alive. This despite evidence that the vessel, whose actual name was the Princess Augusta, was never abandoned, lured ashore, or destroyed by fire. So how did the rumors begin? What really happened to the Princess Augusta and the passengers she carried on her final, fatal voyage? Through years of painstaking research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England's most chilling maritime mysteries.

Shipwrecks Of Rhode Island And Connecticut

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Author : Gary Gentile
language : en
Publisher: Gary Gentile Productions
Release Date : 2004-01-01

Shipwrecks Of Rhode Island And Connecticut written by Gary Gentile and has been published by Gary Gentile Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Shipwrecks categories.

The Life Savers

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Author : Varoujan Karentz
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-04-01

The Life Savers written by Varoujan Karentz and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with History categories.

An incredible story of men against the sea and the U.S. Life Saving Service of the 19th century. Dramatic events culled from documented reports describe the forgotten service that saved lives from ships foundering on Rhode Island's shores. Included are synopsis of Rhode Island's worse marine disasters as the passenger steamer SS Larchmont in the dead of winter was holed and sunk by the schooner Harry Knowlton with a loss of 145 lives, to the rumored purposeful shipwrecker's on Block Island who decoyed wayward vessels to their doom to salvage wreckage and cargo. Dozens of shipwrecks and rescues by the men assigned to the Life saving stations are covered with direct words from the rescuers themselves.Varoujan Karentz describes the nine Life Saving Stations along Rhode Island's southern ocean shore and on Block Island. The men's feats who's motto “you have to go out, but you don't have to come back” often resulted in acts of heroism. For over 40 years they lived an extraordinary drama while at the same time made maritime history, which somehow faded into the past and disappeared. The author brings this all back coupled with actual reports from the Life Saving Service's archives.At each station its crew lived together and individually walked as a beach patrol looking for vessels in danger and signaling them to change course or summoning beach apparatus or launching their surfboat to attempt a rescue. Stories include the successful use of the breeches buoy where passengers or crew were hauled ashore directly from stranded vessels. The stations were manned during the winter months where severity of storms were maximum often mixed with snow and ice. Frostbite, exhaustion and boredom was common as was the fear of the sea. Karentz brings this all back in a realism of a variety of actual shipwreck events which happened at each station. The Life Savers with its saga of men who's stories are told event by event captures the imagination of brave men and thankful survivors. It is meaningful reading of yesteryear and how men suffered to save another unknown human being from the ravages of the sea.

Lighthouses And Life Saving Along The Connecticut And Rhode Island Coast

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Author : James Claflin
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001-06-01

Lighthouses And Life Saving Along The Connecticut And Rhode Island Coast written by James Claflin and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-01 with History categories.

Lighthouses and Life Saving along the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coast is the third in a series of titles offering a unique tribute to the men and women who protected the mariners as they traveled along New England's rocky coastline. Thousands of vessels faced the dangers of the rugged sea which caused hundreds of shipwrecks off the coast with devastating losses. Author James Claflin combines a thoroughly descriptive text with this diverse collection of over two hundred vintage images, from private as well as museum collections, to create an illustrated history of an area strongly reliant on its coastal trade. The U.S. Light-House Establishment and the U.S. Life-Saving Service, which later merged to become the U.S. Coast Guard, assumed the responsibility of lighting and protecting the coasts. Inside, you will see the lighthouse keeper at Bullock's Point Light as he surveys the damage from the Hurricane of 1938, witness the life savers at Block Island's Sandy Point Station where first word of the wreck of the steamer Larchmont was received, and experience life on an offshore lightship. The book guides you through the days of the life savers-the work they performed, their rescues, and the evolution of their architecture through the years.