[PDF] 50 Greatest Shipwrecks eBook

Author : Richard Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399008013

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When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones has put together 50 stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. When did two liners collide and lead to one of the greatest rescues in history? How did a Scotsman become an American hero against his own country? Which warship sank with gold bullion on board during the Second World War? This book tells the story of these fascinating cases plus many more, explores the largest shipwrecks, the treasure wrecks and the ones that are talked about still as the most famous. Starting at the tiny island of Alderney in 1592, we take a journey through history, through the First and Second World Wars, into the age of the passenger ferry and finally to the modern day migrant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Never before have these fifty wrecks come together in a book that really brings home to the reader just how many lost vessels there are, how deadly many can be and what this teaches us today about our own history.

Author : Richard M. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781399008006

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Historian Richard M. Jones recounts fifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. Starting at the tiny island of Alderney in 1592, the reader journeys through history, through World Wars I and II, into the age of the passenger ferry and finally to the modern-day migrant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Never have these fifty wrecks come together in a book that establishes how many lost vessels there are, how deadly many can be, and what this teaches us today about our own history.

Author : Frederick Stonehouse
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :

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After ten years of lighthouse books, children's books and even a cookbook, noted Great Lakes historian Frederick Stonehouse has gone back to his roots with this excellent new shipwreck book. This book is sure to please both the Great Lakes history and shipwreck buff.

Author : Anna Lardinois
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493058568

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Submerged stories from the inland seas The newest addition to Globe Pequot’s Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated that over 30,000 sailors have lost their lives in Great Lakes wrecks. For many, these icy, inland seas have become their final resting place, but their last moments live on as a part of maritime history. The tales, all true and well-documented, feature some of the most notable tragedies on each of the lakes. Included in many of these tales are legends of ghost ship sighting, ghostly shipwreck victims still struggling to get to shore, and other chilling lore. Sailors are a superstitious group, and the stories are sprinkled with omens and maritime protocols that guide decisions made on the water.

Author : David Ritchie
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780816040568

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From cowardly captains and deadly icebergs to mutinies and nuclear submarine wrecks, this work chronicles the world's most amazing maritime disasters. Wrecks like those of the Titanic and Lusitana are the stuff of legends, but what about the others throughout history?

Author : Kelly Grey Carlisle
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1492645214

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AS SEEN ON DR. OZ "Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection."—Library Journal, STARRED Review A mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both. Kelly always knew her family was different. She knew that most children didn't live with their grandparents and that their grandparents didn't own porn stores. Her classmates didn't sleep on a boat in the L.A. harbor, and she knew their next-door neighbors probably weren't drug addicts and johns. She knew that most of her classmates knew more about their moms than their cause of death. What Kelly didn't know was if she would become part of the dysfunction that surrounded her. Would she end up selling adult videos and sinking into the depths of harbor life, or would she escape to live her own story somewhere else? As an adult, Kelly decides to discover how the place where she came from defined the person she ultimately became. To do this, she goes back to the beginning—to a mother she never knew, a thirty-year-old cold case, and two of Los Angeles's most notorious murderers. We Are All Shipwrecks is Kelly's story of redemption from tragedy, told with a tenderness toward her family that makes it as much about preserving the strings that anchor her as it is about breaking free.

Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781564585998

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This is a comprehensive illustrated guide to ships lost at sea and the treasures they have yielded, from Roman ships laden with bronze statues to the gold-carrying blockade runners of World War II.

Author : Akira Yoshimura
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156008358

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"A thrilling tale of murder and retribution set on the wild seacoast of medieval Japan"--Cover.

Author : Steven Danforth Singer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 168334037X

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More Shipwrecks of Florida is a sequel to Shipwrecks of Florida, 2nd edition. This new book with all new content adds over 1,500 shipwrecks to the guide, and includes additional information on hundreds of previously listed shipwrecks, all organized by year. It also includes more GPS coordinates, as well as stories of pirates and privateers, wreckers, and buried and sunken treasure.