Come Hell and High Water Extraordinary Stories of Wreck, Terror and Triumph on the Sea

by Hood, Jean

• ISBN13: 9781580801430
• ISBN10: 1580801439
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-05
• Publisher: Burford Books

Summary

Readable, entertaining mini-histories of extraordinary shipwrecks, some famous (Titanic, Kursk) some little known.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 6
Introduction	p. 7
The Floating Bomb - Prince, 1752	p. 10
The Phoenix of Bird Island - Dodington, 1755	p. 28
Taken by Storm - HMS Centaur and HMS Ramillies, 1782	p. 55
Ice Ship - Albion, 1810	p. 77
The Gorgon's Curse - Meduse, 1816	p. 95
Worse Things Happen At Sea - Rothsay Castle, 1831	p. 135
Death Sentence - Amphitrite, 1833	p. 160
Maiden Voyage - San Francisco, 1853-54	p. 180
A Clash of Titans - HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown, 1893	p. 208
Spanish Tragedy - Sirio, 1906	p. 229
Almost Unsinkable - Titanic, 1912	p. 249
The Sea Shall Not Have Them - USS Squalus, 1939	p. 276
The Alexandria Raid - HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1941	p. 288
Our Friends, the Enemy - Laconia and U-156, 1942	p. 316
To the Bitter End - Flying Enterprise, 1952	p. 344
The Brotherhood of the Sea - Kursk and Priz AS-28, 2000/2005	p. 366
Conclusion	p. 389
Glossary	p. 394
Illustration Credits	p. 396
Index	p. 397
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