On January 4, 1914, the Karluk was stuck in ice when the ominous sound of the ship’s stern being ripped open by pack ice was heard by all on board. It sounded like the firing of a cannon. Bartlett immediately ordered supplies be...
Shipwrecks
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Auteur:Drake, JuliaSommaire:When the Lyric sank, the Larkin family's great-great-great-grandmother swam to shore and founded Lyric, Maine. Searching for the ship, Violet comes closer to herself and her family's past.
- Auteur:Raines, Ben.Sommaire:
The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who...
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Auteur:Collins, GarySommaire:Inspired by True Events
In 1934, North America lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it harder to survive,...
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Auteur:Stilton, TheaSommaire:The Thea Sisters investigate a mystery involving a blue-skinned boy found unconscious on the beach by Paulina.
- Auteur:McMann, LisaSommaire:
A risky decision endangers both Artimé and Quill in book five of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus Reviews called "The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter." Alex and his friends from Artimé are...
- Auteur:Brookes, ChrisSommaire:
Tells the story of a tragic 19th-century shipwreck when a ship full of immigrants to the United States foundered off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The story is passed down through the generations of a family of German immigrants, as the...
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Auteur:Dalton, AnthonySommaire:On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors...
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Auteur:Gaynor, HazelSommaire:Ireland, 1912. Young Maggie Murphy sets sail on Titanic, though her sweetheart stays behind. After the ship sinks, Maggie wakes up in a New York hospital and vows never to speak of that terrible night again. But many years later, the...
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Auteur:Collins, GarySommaire:On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane.
Here for the first time are the...
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Auteur:Tougias, Mike, Sherman, CaseySommaire:The true story of the valiant attempt to rescue those inside two oil tankers that split in half during the brutal nor'easter in New England in the winter of 1952.
- Auteur:Sherman, Casey, Tougias, Michael J.Sommaire:
On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation tells the...
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Auteur:Naylor, CarlSommaire:Combining his skills as a veteran journalist and well-practiced storyteller with his two decades of underwater adventures in maritime archaeology, Carl Naylor offers a colorfully candid account of remarkable discoveries in the Palmetto...
- Auteur:BALLANTYNE, Robert MichaelSommaire:
Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as...
- Auteur:Taylor, TheodoreSommaire:
Phillip Enright, a 12 year old boy, and Timothy, an aged Negro, are marooned on a cay or sea island after their ship is torpedoed during World War II. Phillip, blinded as a result of the explosion, must rely on Timothy to survive.
- Auteur:Stacpoole, H. De Vere, Clinton, Richard H.Sommaire:
Two young children, cousins Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and are stranded on a lush tropical island. The cook, kindly old salt Paddy Button, assumes the responsibility for...
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Auteur:Hallowell, GeraldSommaire:Three different fishing communities, three different countries, but in their pursuit of fish on the banks they would have much in common, including the terrors of the North Atlantic storms. The August Gales is a richly detailed history...
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Auteur:Probst, Jeff, Tebbetts, ChristopherSommaire:Four kids are stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific with no supplies. They just lost their only shelter and possibly their one chance at being rescued. Now they must venture deeper into the jungles to stay...
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Auteur:Brown, CassieSommaire:In the snowy predawn of February 18, 1942, a convoy of three American ships zigzagged up the North Atlantic toward Newfoundland, heading for one of the worst disasters in naval history.
The ships were under radio silence to...
- Auteur:Marshall, LoganSommaire:
This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived
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