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ISBN: 978-1-899694-00-6
Author:
Bernard Edwards
Binding:
Paper Trade
Pages:
206
Trim Size:
5.5x8.5
Width:
0.625
Foreign Language:
English
Illustrations:
None
Publication Date:
6/1/94
Type:
Nonfiction
Printing:
First Printing
Price: $9.95
Title pending
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SOS Men Against the Sea is a superbly dramatized chronicle of 29 ships the loss of which history, by and large, passed by. Few have ever heard of the Cospatrick, a fully rigged ship destroyed by fire off the Cape of Good Hope in 1874 with the loss of 400 lives, or the steamer Utopia which skewered itself on the ram-bow of a warship in Gibraltar Bay and sank in five minutes taking 500 souls with it. A similar loss of life occurred when the Russian cruise liner Admiral Nakimov collided with a bulk carrier in the Black Sea in 1986. There was no loss of life when the cruise liner Oceanis sank off the coast of Transkei, thanks to the actions of a few non-seamen who displayed the true spirit of the Birkenhead.
A total of 5,683 lives were lost when these ships went down. This book is their epitaph.
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