Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : International Specialized Book Service Incorporated
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780285627451
Author : Frank Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN :
The steamship "Royal Charter" left Melbourne on Aug. 26, 1859 with 450 passengers and crew bound for Liverpool, Eng. but was completely wrecked on the rocky Welsh coast on Oct. 25, 1859 with only 30 survivors.
Author : Chris Holden and Lesley Holden
Publisher : Calgo Publications
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 0954506677
The auxiliary steamship 'Royal Charter' was wrecked at Moelfre, Anglesey, North Wales, on the 26th of October, 1859, with great loss of life and a fortune in gold. This book tells the background to the voyage and the story of the disaster using may of the newspaper reports of that era.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781872773032
Author : Richard Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399008013
When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones has put together 50 stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. When did two liners collide and lead to one of the greatest rescues in history? How did a Scotsman become an American hero against his own country? Which warship sank with gold bullion on board during the Second World War? This book tells the story of these fascinating cases plus many more, explores the largest shipwrecks, the treasure wrecks and the ones that are talked about still as the most famous. Starting at the tiny island of Alderney in 1592, we take a journey through history, through the First and Second World Wars, into the age of the passenger ferry and finally to the modern day migrant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Never before have these fifty wrecks come together in a book that really brings home to the reader just how many lost vessels there are, how deadly many can be and what this teaches us today about our own history.
Author : Gillian E. Hamer
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2012-06-02
Category : Gwynedd (Wales)
ISBN : 9780957193208
Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2005-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393327078
Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.
Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1639363211
A true story of royal intrigue—with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist—as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? Nigel Pickford’s compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a richness of historical material including letters, diaries and ships’ logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.
Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1429930969
A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.
Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1771644427
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage. Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin’s quest for the holy grail of navigation—a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014. Palin travels across the world—from Tasmania to the Falkland Islands and the Canadian Arctic—to offer a firsthand account of the terrain and conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her doomed final crew. Delving into the research, he describes the intertwined careers of the two men who shared the ship’s journeys: Ross, the organizational genius who mapped much of the Antarctic coastline and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there; and Franklin, who, at the age of sixty and after a checkered career, commanded the ship on its last disastrous venture. Expertly researched and illustrated with maps, photographs, paintings, and engravings, Erebus is an evocative account of two journeys: one successful and forgotten, the other tragic yet unforgettable.
