Título:
Shipwrecks and lost treasures, Great Lakes : legends and lore, pirates and more! / Michael J. Varhola ; illustrations by Paul G. Hoffman ; foreword by Frederick Stonehouse.
ISBN:
9780762744923
Autor personal:
Edición:
First edition.
Información de publicación:
Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot, [2008]
©2008
Descripción física:
xxiii, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Contenido:
1: First and final flight / Le Griffon (1679) -- 2: Death comes to upper Canada / HMS Speedy (1804) -- 3: Warship by any name / USS Adams/HMS Detroit (1813) -- 4: Conqueror of Lake Erie / USS Niagara (1820) -- 5: Grave misfortune / SS GP Griffith (1850) -- 6: Disaster second only to one / SS Lady Elgin (1960) -- 7: War comes to the Great Lakes / SS Island Queen (1864) -- 8: Alexander McDougall's whalebacks -- 9: Sailing into an age of darkness / SS Kaliyuga (1905) -- 10: Wrecked in sight of refuge / SS Mataafa (1905) -- 11: Christmas tree ship / Rouse Simmons (1912) -- 12: Great Lakes storm of 1913 -- 13: Canaller's last valiant effort / SS Benjamin Noble (1914) -- 14: Disaster second to none / SS Eastland (1915) -- 15: Teutonic warroir's final voyage / UC-97 (1921) -- 16: Marysburgh vortex -- 17: Classic ghost ship / SS Kamloops (1927) -- 18: Fiery demise for the queen of the lakes / SS Nornonic (1949) -- 19: Price of negligence / SS Henry Steinbrenner (1953) -- 20: Harsh judgment / SS Carl D Bradley (1958) -- 21: Wreck like many others / SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975) -- Glossary of nautical terms.
Síntesis:
Twenty-one stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes.
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn212058866
Disponibilidad:
Eagan - Wescott~1
