Ghost Ships True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings, and Disasters

by Winer, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780425175484
• ISBN10: 0425175480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Berkley

Summary

A hundred years' worth of real-life shipboard hauntings, mysteries, and catastrophes -- guaranteed to shiver your timbers.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Ship of Doom	1	(8)
Without a Trace	9	(24)
The Queen's Phantom Guests	33	(12)
The Jinxed Battleship	45	(5)
Cyclops	50	(25)
No Joy Aboard the Joyita	75	(10)
The Mail Came Through---But the Crew Didn't	85	(11)
Skeletons at Sea	96	(3)
Floating Caskets	99	(5)
A Possible Impossibility	104	(5)
The Great Wave of Death	109	(16)
The Ghost Ship	125	(5)
The Coast Guard's Encounters with the Bizarre	130	(12)
Mona, the Isle of Mystery	142	(11)
Paradise Unreached	153	(6)
The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast	159	(4)
The Devil's Jaw	163	(15)
The Ghost and the Lighthouse	178	(6)
Titanic: A Truth Stranger Than the Truth	184	(3)
Another Ghost Ship	187	(4)
Revenge of the Sea	191	(3)
Ghosts at Sea	194	(4)
The Sinking Ships of the Rising Sun	198	(5)
The Greatest Sailor of Them All	203	(6)
Ghost Guard to the Rescue	209	(5)
Seagoing Celebrities and Their Ghosts	214	(9)
Ghosts on the Mississippi	223	(3)
Phantom Vessels	226	(2)
The Phantom of the Forrestal	228	(7)
The Death Ships	235	(9)
The Southern Oceans	244	(4)
A Typhoon That Almost Changed the History of the United States	248	(8)
Death Under the Waves	256	(9)
Bibliography	265