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Perils Of The Atlantic Is A Chronicle Of The Most Frightening Episodes In The Maritime History Of The North Atlantic. From 1850 To The Present Day, The Atlantic Has Been Home To Hundreds Of Ocean Liners And Cruise Ships, Each More Lavish Than The Last...all Of Them Symbols Of Wealth And Luxury. Perhaps This Is Why Readers Have Always Been Fascinated By The Lives Of These Ships - And Their Deaths. Many Of Us Know The Stories Of The Titanic And The Lusitania. Both Tragedies Caused Tremendous Loss Of Life, Even As They Made The Ships Immortal. But There Are Many Little-known Accounts Of Extraordinary Survivals At Sea, Such As The Inman And International Liner City Of Chicago That Jammed Her Bow Into An Irish Peninsula In 1892 But Stayed Afloat Long Enough For All To Be Rescued, Or The City Of Richmond That Survived A Dangerous Fire In 1891, And A Year Earlier The City Of Paris, Whose Starboard Engine Exploded At Full Speed In The Mid-atlantic And Yet Miraculously Still Made Port. Often Such Tales Are Forgotten Even If The Ship Sank: In 1898 The Holland-america Liner Veendam Hit A Submerged Wreck And Sank At Sea, But All Lives Were Saved - So This Vessel's Dramatic Story Seemed Less Im

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Author

William Henry Flayhart III

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393041552

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Anthropology, Engineering, Social_sciences

Rating

5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14