Contains third person accounts of people who survived shipwrecks throughout history, identifies some of the reasons why ships sink, and includes photographs, a glossary, and a list of related organizations.
the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1500 souls : giving exciting escapes from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient
Everett, Marshall
1998
Presents a republication of a 1912 account of the sinking of the "Titanic, " describing the building of the ship, featuring personal stories of survivors, and including original drawings and photographs.
Elmer Renner recounts how he and eight other shipmates from a U.S. Navy minesweeper off the coast of Okinawa managed to survive a deadly typhoon after their ship sank on September 16, 1945.
Many of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, told in his "own" words, illustrated with his "own" sketches as recorded in his journal and sketchbook supposedly unearthed years later in an old Scottish manor house.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
