Storms And Shipwrecks of New England

by Snow, Edward Rowe

• ISBN13: 9781933212210
• ISBN10: 1933212217
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Commonwealth Editions

Summary

A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, updated by Jeremy D'Entremont, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus,the Portland Gale, and the 1938 hurricane.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
William P. Quinn
Introduction to the 1946 Edition	xi
Edward Rowe Snow
Introduction to the Snow Centennial Edition	xiii
Jeremy D'Entremont
The Story of the Somerset	1	(11)
The 1635 Tempest	12	(9)
Cannibalism in Maine	21	(6)
The Pirate Ship Whidah	27	(8)
The Gale of 1723	35	(4)
The Grand Design	39	(4)
The Wreck of the General Arnold	43	(8)
The Frigate Erfprins	51	(4)
The December Storm of 1786	55	(5)
The Triple Shipwrecks	60	(5)
The Storm of October 1804	65	(2)
The September Gale of 1815	67	(4)
The Loss of the Royal Tar	71	(6)
The Triple Hurricanes of 1839	77	(5)
The Fire on the Steamer Lexington	82	(8)
The Immigrant Ship Saint John	90	(6)
The Minot's Light Storm	96	(10)
The City of Columbus	106	(7)
A Nantucket Rescue	113	(4)
The Bad Luck of the Jason	117	(5)
The Monomoy Disaster	122	(6)
The Larchmont Disaster	128	(6)
The Fairfax-Pinthis Disaster	134	(5)
The New England Hurricane	139	(9)
Maine and New Hampshire	148	(21)
Southern New England	169	(9)
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard Shipwrecks	178	(20)
Massachusetts Bay	198	(30)
Cape Cod Shipwrecks	228	(15)
The Portland Gale	243	(32)
1944: A Year of Gales and Disaster	275	(12)
The Gale of '45	287	(8)
References	295	(6)
Index	301	(14)
About the Author	315