Disasters at Sea: A Visual History of Infamous Shipwrecks PDF
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Copyright © 2009 Langenscheidt Publishing Group and Moseley Road Inc. First Skyhorse Publishing edition 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or [email protected]. Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation. Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. ISBN: 978-1-62914-177-0 eISBN: 978-1-62914278-4 Printed in China Miranda - The Tempest by John William Waterhouse, 1916 O , I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished! —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest C ONTENTS SHIPWRECKS AROUND THE WORLD Down into the Depths 1 · N F ATURE’S URY The San Agustin Spanish Treasure off the California Coast Nuestra Señora de Atocha Sunken Treasure in the Florida Keys The 1715 Treasure Fleet The Wreck of the Wealth of the Indies The Essex Rendezvous with the Leviathan USS Monitor The Ill-Fated Ironclad The General Grant Gold, Castaways, and Sealskin Suits RMS Rhone Haunted Wreck of the Caribbean USS Wateree Shipwreck on Land HMS Erebus and HMS Terror Vanished The Endurance The Greatest Antarctic Rescue of All Time S A HIPPING IN THE RCTIC SS Edmund Fitzgerald Tragedy on Lake Superior 2 · T F F HE ATAL LAW The Vasa Royal Sweden’s Vainglorious Jewel The Medusa Betrayal and Brutality SS Metropolis A Pitiful Ruin on the Outer Banks SS Eastland Summer Outing Turned to Ruin SS Princess Sophia Alaska’s Greatest Tragedy MS Estonia Death in the Baltic MV Le Joola A Modern African Tragedy The Prestige Europe’s Deadliest Oil Spill E W COSYSTEM RECKS MS al-Salam Boccaccio Betrayal on the Red Sea 3 · C C OLLISION OURSE The Tek Sing The Ill-fated True Star HMS Birkenhead Chivalry to The Last Man RMS Titanic Pride Goes Before a Fall W D RECK IVING RMS Empress of Ireland Collision in the Fog SS Mont-Blanc A Disaster for the Ages The Andrea Doria Last of the Great Luxury Liners MV Doña Paz Collision with an Inferno 4 · P , M S IRACY UTINY, AND KULLDUGGERY The Batavia Starvation, Treachery, and Murder The Henrietta Marie A Slave Ship Disappears The Whydah From Slave Galley to Pirate Ship The Queen Anne’s Revenge Blackbeard’s Flagship P IRATES HMS Bounty Mutiny in the South Pacific SS Tonquin From Trapping to Terror The Golden Venture Smuggled Human Cargo 5 · C W ASUALTIES OF AR The Mary Rose Grand Warship of Henry VIII The Spanish Armada Might of an Empire L’Orient Napoleon’s Flagship W A S ARSHIPS IN THE GE OF AIL RMS Lusitania U-boat Attack HMHS Britannic The Titanic’s Unlucky Sister RMS Laurentic Secret Cargo KMS Bismarck Third Reich Leviathan USS Arizona Firestorm in Paradise MV Wilhelm Gustloff The World’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster USS Indianapolis Secret Mission, Silent Demise ARA General Belgrano Conflict at the Bottom of the World 6 · M ! YSTERY The Santa Maria Lost Ships of Columbus The Trinidad California’s Mystery Caravel The Monongahela Here Be Dragons The Mary Celeste The Phantom Crew SS Waratah Into Thin Air SS Tubantia
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