Saved!: The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
- ISBN-10
- 0671400401
- ISBN-13
- 9780671400408
- Category
- Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Summit Books
- Author
- William Hoffer
Description
Compelling personal stories of both courage and cowardice mark this vivid narrative of the 1956 sea disaster in which the Italian luxury liner and the Stockholm collided during a thick fog off Nantucket.
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