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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Wreck of the Steamer San Francisco written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Globe Pequot Press
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Wreck of the Steamer San Francisco written by and published by Globe Pequot Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632634
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Wreck of the San Francisco written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage. The San Francisco--perhaps the finest ocean-going vessel of its time--had been chartered by the U.S. Government to transport the U.S. Army's Third Artillery Regiment to the Pacific Coast. Two days out, the ship ran into one of the great hurricanes of maritime history. Sails and stacks were blown away, the engine was wrecked and scores of people were washed overboard, as the men frantically worked the pumps to keep afloat. A few days later, cholera broke out. After two weeks adrift, the survivors were rescued by three ships. The nightmare was not over. Two of the vessels, damaged by the storm, were in no position to take on passengers. Provisions ran out. Fighting thirst, starvation, disease and mutiny, survivors barely made it back. Then came the aftermath--accusations, denials, revelations of government ineptitude and negligence, and a cover-up.
Author : United States. Commission on Valencia disaster
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Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Wreck of the Steamer Valencia written by United States. Commission on Valencia disaster and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. H. Cooper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Incidents of Shipwreck written by W. H. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Heyl
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : [E. Heyl]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early American Steamers written by Erik Heyl and published by Buffalo, N.Y. : [E. Heyl]. This book was released on 1953 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Lawson
Publisher : Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pacific Steamers written by Will Lawson and published by Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson. This book was released on 1927 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history, rise and development of steamers on the Australian, New Zealand and Western American Coasts
Author : W H Cooper
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020556180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Incidents Of Shipwreck written by W H Cooper and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the tragic story of the shipwreck of the steamship San Francisco, which ran ashore on Anacapa Island in January 1854. The author, a survivor of the wreck, vividly describes the harrowing experience and the heroism of the rescuers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Brian K. Crawford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533023858
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific written by Brian K. Crawford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1875, the steamship Pacific collided with the clipper ship Orpheus off Cape Flattery in Washington. The Orpheus resumed her journey but the Pacific - old, unsafe, and dangerously overcrowded - broke up in minutes and went down, scattering hundreds of men, women, and children into the sea. Exactly how many died will never be known, but the names we know are enough to make this still the worst maritime disaster in the history of the West Coast. Only two men survived, and their first-hand accounts are here. The passengers included many wealthy and famous people, along with gold miners, singers, actors, and an equestrian troupe. One passenger had already survived three other shipwrecks on the same passage. Several were carrying large amounts of gold. The stories of how they came to be aboard that night are as interesting as the disaster itself. In period newspaper articles, letters, diaries, and mysterious notes in bottles, the tales are told. The Captains - Jefferson Davis Howell (brother-in-law of President Jefferson Davis) of the Pacific, and Charles Sawyer of the Orpheus - were both young but very experienced. Who was at fault? Were they drunk? Could the collision have been averted, or more lives saved? Were the ships safe? Were the officers and crews and owners competent? Was there an official cover-up? Was the "last will in a bottle" genuine? We will examine the evidence. Illustrated with photographs and drawings of the ships and participants, this volume examines all aspects of a singular disaster. The poignancy of the deaths, and the devastation felt by so many left behind, made a mark on a generation that they remembered the rest of their lives. In the impact it had on people's lives and imaginations, the sinking of the Pacific was the Titanic of its era.
Author : Robert C. Belyk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast written by Robert C. Belyk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-08-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating, never-before-documented stories of the worst shipwrecks on the Pacific Coast during the golden age of coastal transportation, 1854 to 1929 In this intriguing chronicle, author Robert Belyk closely examines ten significant maritime disasters that occurred during one of the most turbulent eras in the history of travel. Discover the real-life drama endured by those caught in the terrifying midst of disaster at sea??and the real causes behind the tragedies. Vividly re-created and painstakingly researched, the shipwrecks accounted for here include: 1854: the Yankee Blade runs aground off Point Arguello, California.Twenty-eight passengers lose their lives. 1875: The old side-wheeler Pacific rams another passenger ship off the coast of Cape Flattery, Washington. Two hundred and seventy-seven people perish when her rotting hull gives way. 1906: The Valencia strikes a reef off the Washington coastline. Before dozens of dazed onlookers on the shore, the ship goes down, taking 117 passengers and crew with her.
Author : W. Craig Gaines
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807134245
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks written by W. Craig Gaines and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Author : Tamara Taylor-Leigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967853055
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Shipwreck! written by Tamara Taylor-Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 1312390867
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Sail & Steam on the Northern California Coast, 1850-1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Kinder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 155584796X
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)
Download or read book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea written by Gary Kinder and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
Author : Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
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Total Pages : 642 pages
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Download or read book A Standard History of Oklahoma written by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.S. Contino
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439661502
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Curry County written by H.S. Contino and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, mariners considered the Oregon coast one of the most dangerous in the world. In 1852, explorers discovered gold in the rivers and along the beaches in Curry County, which is located in the southwestern corner of the state. Subsequent settlement concentrated on the coast. With few roads, water transportation was crucial for early settlers. The area contained many potential dangers to ships, including unpredictable weather, frequent fog, and submerged rocks and reefs. There have been many shipwrecks in the area like that of the tanker Larry Doheny, which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II. Curry County is home to Cape Blanco, the second most westerly point in the continental United States, and Port Orford, the only open-water port on the Oregon coast (and one of only six "dolly" ports in the world). Modern technology and port improvements have reduced the number of shipwrecks, but accidents still occur.
