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Frightful ghost ships

"Learn about famous ghost ship sightings all over the world, and find out what historians have to say about these spooky vessels."--Back cover.
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Finding the Titanic

how images from the ocean depths fueled interest in the doomed ship
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On board the Titanic

2008
Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner.
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The Adventures of John Blake

Mystery of the Ghost Ship
John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between centuries and when he meets a shipwrecked girl named Serena he promises to help get her back to her time, but first they must stop the sinister and powerful Dahlberg Corporation. In graphic novel format.
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The sinking of the Vasa

a shipwreck of titanic proportions
This is the saga of the great Swedish warship, the Vasa. Built to be the crown jewel of the Swedish Navy, the Vasa capsized not a mile into her maiden voyage in 1628---a tragedy resulting in many deaths and great loss. But who was to blame? Award-winning author Russell Freedman explores the history of this ship, and her resurrection from the seas in 1961.
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Torpedoed!

a World War II story of a sinking passenger ship and two children's survival at sea
2017
Re-creates the events surrounding the attack on the passenger ship Athenia, the first ship lost in the battle of the Atlantic during World War II.
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What was the Titanic?

Examines the history, development, and disaster of the legendary cruise liner the "Titanic," which famously crashed into an iceberg in 1912 and subsequently sank.
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29 missing

the true and tragic story of the disappearance of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
1998
Recounts the sinking of the huge freighter the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in the icy waters of Lake Superior in 1975 and describes subsequent expeditions to the wreck site to uncover clues to her mysterious disappearance.
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The cay

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a 12-yearold white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean.
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