Ss Atlantic

Author : Greg Cochkanoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864925282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SS Atlantic written by Greg Cochkanoff and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, and Next Generation Indie Book Award, Historical Non-Fiction It's a cold April night on the high seas. A ship steams quickly towards port. Aboard are wealthy passengers enjoying their luxurious accommodations. In the holds below, steerage passengers sit in crowded berths, excited about starting a new life in a new world. In the bridge above, the Captain retires for the evening. The lookouts think they see something ahead. Too late, they warn the bridge... This was the fate of the SS Atlantic, the second ship built by the White Star Line for its new fleet. Built forty-two years before the RMS Titanic, the Atlantic had successfully completed eighteen crossings before it ran aground off the coast of Nova Scotia on April 1, 1873, killing 562 of the 952 onboard. It was the worst trans-Atlantic marine disaster of the 19th century, yet, until now, the full story has never been told.

Author : Robert G. Chaulk
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781774710104
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic's Last Stop written by Robert G. Chaulk and published by Nimbus Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, definitive, shocking history of SS Atlantic, the worst shipwreck in Nova Scotia's history, authored by the vessel's recognized authority. In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1873 - as the lookouts looked, the steersman steered, and the captain slept - something was happening to the SS Atlantic. The tide had quietly carried the White Star Line ocean liner twelve miles off course, and land was closer than anybody realized?or was willing to believe. The wreck of the SS Atlantic would become the worst transatlantic passenger ship disaster before Titanic, and although it happened almost 150 years ago, there are still many unanswered questions. That is changing. Ten years after co-authoring the most celebrated book to date on Nova Scotia's worst shipwreck, author Bob Chaulk has uncovered never-reported information that answers the question historians have been grappling with for over a century: why a state-of-the-art steamship, with all equipment in perfect working order, in good weather, and commanded by officers of the world's leading seafaring nation, ended up striking rock outside Halifax and sinking, resulting in some 550 deaths. Over a five-year period, Chaulk tracked down many descendants of those on the scene and aboard the ship, patiently piecing their stories together to reveal a shocking conclusion. This richly illustrated work, featuring maps and colour photos, includes many firsthand accounts from passengers, crew, officers, and local rescue people.

Author : Robert "Bob" Love
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 197726560X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Voyage written by Robert "Bob" Love and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic's ancestor of the White Star Line. the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a journey about the first of the White Star Line's luxury, steel hull steamships which still carried her sails. Why did the Atlantic divert her voyage to New York to sail to Halifax, leading her to crash on Nova Scotia's granite shore. This story tells of the Destiny of not only the ship herself but of her passengers who made fatal decisions to be on board. Like the RMS Titanic the SS Atlantic carried eleven multi-millionaires, leaders of industry, Learn why Mrs. Rowden insisted on leaving the ship in Queenstown, Ireland where 160 Irish citizens boarded for the new America dream, and the carpet baggers revolt. The loss of all women and children except young John Hindley. The heroism of the Anglican Priest, Reverend Ancient. This journey will make you reflect upon your own path to Destiny. It is not just about a shipwreck but the web creating the destiny of a mighty ocean liner and over one thousand souls in her care. The SS Atlantic the ancestor of the RMS Titanic

Author : Sheree Fitch
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0385672500
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gravesavers written by Sheree Fitch and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.” In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives, Minn discovers the skull of a human child on the beach. She is swiftly caught up in a mystery that reaches back more than a century, to the aftermath of the most tragic shipwreck in Maritime history before the Titanic. Over the course of this extraordinary summer, Minn will discover romance with a boy who turns out to be much more than he seems, and learn that the grandmother she resented is more curious, dedicated, and surprising than she had ever guessed. She might even meet a world-famous rock star! By summer’s end, Minn will solve a ghostly mystery and, most importantly, finally be able to give up the terrible secret she has kept locked in her heart.

Author : Peter Selgin
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689824678
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book "S.S." Gigantic Across the Atlantic written by Peter Selgin and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "S.S." "Gigantic" is so big that it can travel around the world without moving. Its passengers don't have to worry about icebergs--they're too small to do any damage--but a deadly sea thumbtack is another matter. Filled with clever puns and wordplay, detailed paintings, and intricate diagrams and blueprints, this full-color book is a treat for those who love large ships--and for those who have had their fill of them!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Timberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Atlantic's Last Stop : Courage, Folly, and Lies in the White Star Line's Worst Disaster Before Titanic written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1873--as the lookouts looked, the steersman steered, and the captain slept--something was happening to the SS Atlantic. The tide had quietly carried the White Star Line ocean liner twelve miles off course, and land was closer than anybody realized--or was willing to believe. The wreck of the SS Atlantic would become the worst transatlantic passenger ship disaster before Titanic, and although it happened almost 150 years ago, there are still many unanswered questions. That is changing. Ten years after co-authoring the most celebrated book to date on Nova Scotia's worst shipwreck, author Bob Chaulk has uncovered never-reported information that answers the question historians have been grappling with for over a century: why a state-of-the-art steamship, with all equipment in perfect working order, in good weather, and commanded by officers of the world's leading seafaring nation, ended up striking rock outside Halifax and sinking, resulting in some 550 deaths. Over a five-year period, Chaulk tracked down many descendants of those on the scene and aboard the ship, patiently piecing their stories together to reveal a shocking conclusion. This richly illustrated work, featuring maps and colour photos, includes many firsthand accounts from passengers, crew, officers, and local rescue people.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1668 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2248 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: