Lifeboats Adrift

Author : Steven Callahan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547526563
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adrift written by Steven Callahan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

Author : Ned Schillow
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976389603
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifeboats Adrift written by Ned Schillow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty lifeboats floated silently on the cold Atlantic. One floated upside down with its passengers precariously balanced upon it. Two boats were filled to capacity and sat dangerously low in the water, while another held only twelve persons. Unbelievably, the Titanic had sunk into the sea, and the survivors in those small vessels faced the uncertainty of how or when their rescue might occur. The night was clear; stars shimmered brightly overhead; the waters were calm. Some fortunate families huddled together in the frigid night air, but many more were overwhelmed with the thoughts of loved ones who had gone down with the ship. Here is the story of these lifeboats, including the challenges of getting them loaded, lowered from the deck, and finally rowed to safety in the darkness. The unifying grandeur of the Titanic had been exchanged for twenty modest boats, complete with rumors of possible bribery, the music of a mechanical pig, the risk of turning back to rescue those victims who were still floundering in the water, and numbed silence broken by muffled sobs. Only when they reached the Carpathia would these 714 fortunate survivors once again be reunited but forever haunted by the memories of that night.

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306901994
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adrift written by Brian Murphy and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship's log survived. Using Nye's firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.

Author : Eric Wiberg
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book U-Boats in New England written by Eric Wiberg and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States in mid-December 1941 and lasting until the war with Germany was all but over, 73 German U-Boats sustainably attacked New England waters, from Montauk New York to the tip of Nova Scotia at Cape Sable. Fifteen percent of these boats were sunk by Allied counter-attacks, five surrendered in the region, and three were sunk off New England--Block Island, Massachusetts Bay, and off Nantucket. These have proven appealing to divers, with a result that at least three German naval officers or ratings are buried in New England, one having killed himself in the Boston jail cell. There were 34 Allied merchant or naval ships sunk by these subs, one of them, the 'Eagle', was not admitted to have been sunk by the Germans until decades later. Over 1,100 men were thrown in the water and 545 of them made it ashore in New England ports; 428 were killed. Importantly, saboteurs were landed three places: Long Island, Frenchman's Bay Maine and New Brunswick Canada, and Boston was mined. Very little was known about this.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oversight of the Cruise Ship Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clay Blair
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0679640320
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's U-Boat War written by Clay Blair and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a two-volume history of Germany's submarine campaign during World War II covers events from the beginning of the war up to 1942, discussing Hitler's operations against British and American shipping. Reprint.

Author : Cecil Patrick Thomas Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1700 Miles in Open Boats written by Cecil Patrick Thomas Foster and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1939-08-21 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Maurice Bailey
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780924486319
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 117 Days Adrift written by Maurice Bailey and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bailey's is a fantastic human story of adaption to totally alien conditions. It is a story of amazing courage, resolution and endurance. Essential reading for all who enjoy a gripping true story, 117 Days Adrift is an inspiring tale that has become one of the classics of the sea.

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Report of the Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Loss of Life at Sea and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: