Ate the dog yesterday : maritime casualties, calamities and catastrophes

Ate the dog yesterday : maritime casualties, calamities and catastrophes / Graham Faiella.

Compelling true-life stories about mariners' dreadful experiences at sea during the hey-day of deep-sea commercial sail.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faiella, Graham (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dunbeath : Whittles, 2013.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Seafaring life > History > 19th century.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
Seafaring life
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Part I Of Sailors, Ships and the Sea; 1 Lloyd's and Lloyd's List; 2 Voyages and Voyagings; 3 Tonnage and Ships' Measurements; Part II Casualties, Calamities, Catastrohpes and Curiosities; 1 Message in a Bottle; 2 Corpses ; 3 Hard Weather Voyages: Gales, Storms and Hurricanes; 4 Remarkable Voyages; 5 Accidental Loss of Life; 6 Mutiny, Murder and Mayhem; 7 Sickness, Disease and Malnutrition (... and Suicide); 8 Fire!; 9 Ice!; 10 Earthquakes, Seaquakes and Volcanoes; 11 Whaling, Whales and Fishermen; 12 Shipwrecks, Collisions and Castaways (... and Cannibalism).
  • 13 Great Disasters 14 Odds & Sods & Mollycods ; Conclusion.

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