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  • Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle…
    Batavia

    Batavia

    By Peter FitzSimons rating of short cover   ( 9 customer ratings) Random House Australia, March 2011 ISBN: 9781742741468 Language:  English
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  • The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire…
    Sailors to the End

    Sailors to the End

    By Gregory A. Freeman rating of short cover   ( 70 customer ratings) HarperCollins, October 2009 ISBN: 9780061856563 Ships & Shipbuilding, History Language:  English
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  • When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift…
    Coming Back Alive

    Coming Back Alive - The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission…

    By Spike Walker rating of short cover   ( 76 customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, October 2002 ISBN: 9781466805378 Environment, Natural Disasters Language:  English
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  • A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had…
    The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic

    The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic

    By Lawrence Beesley rating of short cover   ( 5 customer ratings) Amberley Publishing, February 2012 ISBN: 9781445607856 Language:  English
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  • Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of…
    Unsinkable

    Unsinkable - The Full Story of the RMS Titanic

    By Daniel Allen Butler Da Capo Press, March 2012 ISBN: 9780306821035 Modern, 20th Century Language:  English
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  • Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the…
    Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea

    Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - The History and Discovery of the World's Richest…

    By Gary Kinder rating of short cover   ( 1589 customer ratings) Grove/Atlantic, Inc., October 2009 ISBN: 9781555847968 Ships & Shipbuilding, History Language:  English
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  • Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin’s Soviet Russia with critical equipment and…
    Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II

    Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II

    By Michael Walling rating of short cover   ( 10 customer ratings) Osprey Publishing, October 2012 ISBN: 9781782002901 Military, World War II Language:  English
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  • Ships have been overwhelmed by huge waves, consumed by fires, broken apart, sunk by storms and driven onto uncharted rocks. They have collided with icebergs or other ships, been sunk by enemy…
    Shipwrecks

    Shipwrecks - Disasters of the Deep Seas

    By Nigel Cawthorne Arcturus Publishing Limited, July 2005 ISBN: 9781848586093 Reference & Language, Transportation Language:  English
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  • In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a…
    Ten Hours Until Dawn

    Ten Hours Until Dawn - The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do

    By Michael Tougias rating of short cover   ( 127 customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, April 2007 ISBN: 9781429909617 Environment, Natural Disasters Language:  English
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  • From the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, comes a thrilling true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from…
    On the Edge of Survival

    On the Edge of Survival - A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan…

    By Spike Walker rating of short cover   ( 60 customer ratings) St. Martin's Press, September 2010 ISBN: 9781429989039 Environment, Natural Disasters Language:  English
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