shipwrecks

When a ship sinks off the coast of Maine, twelve-year-old Nora tries to help the survivors which include an orphaned boy and an elephant.

Six kids shipwrecked on an obscure Pacific island urgently need a plan to get home when they realize they are sharing their living space with a deadly group of smugglers--and the situation grows even more dire when the smugglers stumble across an atomic bomb left there in 1945.

The initial weather forecast for the Great Lakes on November 6, 1913 was moderate to brisk winds. On Friday a moderately severe storm was predicted. Soon the warnings became more dire hour-by-hour. Weather forecasting was in its infancy then, and radio communication was not much better. By the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was developing, the storm was well on its way to becoming the deadliest in Great Lakes maritime history. Over four days the storm claimed the lives of over 250 sailors.

Harold Lowe, fifth officer of RMS Titanic, was described by a surviving passenger as the real hero of the Titanic. Lowe took command of a flotilla of lifeboats, distributing passengers among them so he could return to the wreckage and look for survivors. He was the only officer to do so and succeeded in raising a sail, rescuing the drenched inhabitants of a sinking lifeboat, and towed another boat to safety. Not only did he survive the sinking of the Titanic but as a fifteen-year-old runaway went to West Africa and saw action in Siberia during the Russian Revolution.

Explores every aspect of the Titanic story, from her birth in Belfast to the tragic end. Covers the struggle for survival, the rediscovery of the wreck on the ocean floor, and the Titanic's afterlife in film, music, and books.

The survivors of the Titanic's sinking tell their stories. They include Jack Thayer, Eva Hart, Fred Barrett, Colonel Gracie, John Hart, Charles Joughin, and Lady Duff-Gordon.

Thanksgiving week of 1905 brought a storm of epic proportions to Lake Superior. Unfortunately this was also the week that businesses wanted to use as a profitable close to the shipping season on the Great Lakes. Caught on the lake, nearly thirty vessels were affected by the storm, one so intense that it caused the Split Rock Lighthouse to be built to protect ships of the future.

One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather but, unknown to the fishermen, a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast. Soon the boats were battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds. The crews struggled heroically, but the storm crippled one boat and overturned the other, trapping its crew inside. One man managed to crawl inside a tiny inflatable life raft and spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift on the stormy open sea.

The story of the Titanic's sinking told through survivors' tales and contemporary newspaper accounts from both sides of the Atlantic.

What was it like for a woman to actually say goodbye to her husband? For a mother to leave her teenage sons? For the many who found themselves in the freezing Atlantic water? This is the most comprehensive collection of Titanic survivors' accounts ever published and includes many unpublished and long-forgotten accounts.