Ships category: 1007 books
Titanic Valour
The Life of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The first biography of Welsh hero Harold Lowe, the only officer to return in a lifeboat for Titanic survivorsI have never prided myself upon being a prophet, but of this I am positive: When the Titanic disaster has become a matter of history, Harold G. Lowe will occupy the hero's place.– Sheriff...
Norma & Gladys
The Famous Newfoundland Knockabout Schooner
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador’s industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasting freight to remote seaside towns. Her story also illustrates the worst examples of the province’s...
Blackbeard
The Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Pirate
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Edward Teach – ‘Blackbeard’-is one of the legends of the so-called ‘golden age of piracy’. There have been so many accounts of his short, bloody career that it is hard to see him and his times in a clear historical light. This new study looks for the man behind the legend, and it gives a...
Titanic
Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Greatest Shipwreck
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
On the 100th anniversary of Titanic's sinking, National Geographic revisits the romance, glory, and tragedy of this tremendous ship and presents an insider’s look at the new findings about the passengers and scientific study of the wreck site. For 100 years the great ship Titanic has rested in its...
by W. B. Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Although the answer appears obvious, there is far more to the sinking of the Titanic than is popularly understood. On 10 April 1912 Titanic - the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world - left Southampton on her maiden voyage. The only headlines she expected to make were on her triumphant...
by Clive Groome
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On 10 April 1912, the luxurious ocean liner, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage bound for New York. Just four days later whilst 400 miles south of Newfoundland she struck an iceberg and within three hours was plummeting to the bottom of the ocean. Written by Michael Swift and...
by Meredeth, Lee W.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Fascinating, lesser-known facts about the Titanic and details on the ship, the passengers, and the sinking. The book also explores aspects of the wreck today and salvage operations. Although the main events of the Titanic disaster are well known, significant facts and tidbits remain obscure. Who were...
by Simon Angel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Nearly 100 years after the most famous maritime disaster in history, we are assured that we know everything there is to know about the White Star Liner Titanic and that there is little more to add to the story. While the basic story is undeniable, the details of what happened during the evacuation...
On a Sea of Glass
The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold...
by John Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Expertly researched and marvellously presented novel; a new take on the Titanic disaster. Abridged version.Until his death in 1976, little-known Titanic survivor Raimondo Vitillo vociferously maintained that a small ship pulled alongside Titanic, from the shadow of the fateful Atlantic iceberg.In...
Coming Back Alive
The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.
One hundred fifty...
Nights of Ice
True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1999
Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature...
Heaven's Ditch
God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst...
In the Wake of Madness
The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
The true story of one of history’s most notorious mutinies is revealed in this riveting “nautical murder mystery” (USA Today).
In May 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting,...