shipwrecks

Violet Jessop, a stewardess on the Titanic, had the misfortune to be on two liners that sank and to survive both of these events. Her insights into the sinking of the Titanic in particular give historians a look at the disaster from the point of view of a crew member close to the passengers but not one of them. Violet Jessup never married and supported her mother. Her nieces kept her letters and personal mementos and were instrumental in the publication of this book.

Of all the families that boarded the doomed ocean liner Titanic in 1912, only one-fourth arrived safely in New York together. Albert and Sylvia Caldwell and their ten-month old son, Alden, were one of those rare families. They were idealistic young Presbyterian missionaries from the American midwest and had set out for Siam (Thailand) in 1909. But Sylvia got sick and they left Siam for England. They were returning to New York on the Titanic.

In May 2005, Tom Tighe, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. They were sailing on Tom's forty-five-foot long sailboat, the Almeisan. Four days into the voyage an enormous storm struck, sweeping two crew members into the ocean. Those left onboard battled for their lives. The Coast Guard came to their resuce but found itself in as much trouble as the Almeisan's crew and the two in the ocean. The search and rescue was so diffuclt that this case was chosen as the Coast Guard's search and rescue case of the year.

Max and Alicia Carver enlist the help of their friend Roland to explore the circumstances surrounding the mysterious haunting of a spirit named Jacob, the previous owner's son who drowned; but their search uncovers a sinister character who returns from beyond in order to collect a debt from the past.

The Andrea Gail put to sea to do what she always did---search for the best spot to fish. Unfortunately, nature chose the same time frame to send two storm systems which collided in the same place as the boat. The six-man crew on the Andrea Gail are now well known, thanks to the movie. None of them, or their boat, survived the storm. This book is filled with facts about their lives and ordeal and contains no made-up dialogue. The author interviewed men who had survived storms at sea to get a feeling of what actually happens to a crew when there is a dangerous storm.

On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest in boats and clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Nick Barratt provides the definitive narrative of the disaster in the words of those who were involved.

in 1993 Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two young children, Ben and Annie, set out to live their dream and sail around the world. Then, one night almost three years into their journey, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by ten degrees and sliced the sailboat in half. After forty-four hours clinging to an overturned dinghy in icy seawater, her back broken and her skull fractured, Judith was the only one of her family to survive. Her tale of shattering loss and incredible courage made headlines around the world.

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a German U-boat, the U-20. She exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred passengers and crew. Besides hastening the United States' entry into World War I, the sinking of the Lusitania became a pivotal moment in history and the repercussions of this sinking affected Germany, the United States, Britain, and Europe, far into the 20th century.