Disaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the Atlantic
- ISBN-10
- 0393326519
- ISBN-13
- 9780393326512
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- William Flayhart
Description
With the help of never-before-published material, an acclaimed maritime scholar captures the stories of a number of vessels that experienced adventure on the high seas, from the tragic loss of the liner Arctic in 1854 to the swift sinking of the Italian Andrea Doria in 1956. Originally published as Perils of the Atlantic. Reprint.
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