shipwrecks

Tells the story of the Essex, a whaleship that set sail from Nantucket in 1819 on a routine voyage, and was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the South Pacific, setting the twenty-man crew adrift in three tiny boats.

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. Based on the author's adult book "In the Heart of the Sea.".

Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.

Presents a comic book version of the story of the sinking of "unsinkable" ship "Titanic" in 1912.

Looks at stories of shipwrecks from around the world, discusses legends that attempt to explain why they happened, and includes illustrations and photographs.

Returning from a royal wedding, the ships carrying the King of Naples and his crew are caught in a violent storm. Traveling through treacherous and turbulent waters, they all arrive on the same nearby island. Not only does each believe that the others did not make it out alive, they are also completely unaware that the storm was no accident.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.

Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

Ernest Shackleton and the 27 men who joined his expedition found that he was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And so, with his dream of becoming the first man to cross Antarctica long abandoned, Shackleton set his mind to a far greater challenge: bringing his crew safely home.

Ernest Shackleton and the 27 men who joined his expedition found that he was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And so, with his dream of becoming the first man to cross Antarctica long abandoned, Shackleton set his mind to a far greater challenge: bringing his crew safely home.