When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
- ISBN-10
- 0743280083
- ISBN-13
- 9780743280082
- Category
- Ocean liners
- Pages
- 346
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Brian Hicks
Description
Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.
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