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MAYDAY: 99 Disasters and Tragedies on the High Seas
MAYDAY: 99 Disasters and Tragedies on the High Seas
MAYDAY: 99 Disasters and Tragedies on the High Seas
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Even before the "Divine Winds" destroyed Kublai Khan’s mighty invasion fleet in 1274 (and right up to the present)the relentless sea has claimed the lives of many thousands of human beings and the ships on which they sailed.
Powerful storms have ravaged passenger liners, oil tankers, cargo vessels, and other craft of every description. Human error has led to collisions that resulted in disaster. Warfare on the high seas has sent hundreds of ships to the bottom of the ocean. Shipboard fires and explosions have taken their toll as well.
This book presents ninety-nine brief descriptions of disasters that occurred at sea from early times up to the year 2013. Some of the descriptions describe the fates of such well-known ships as Titanic, Lusitania, or Costa Concordia. Other descriptions tell of lesser-known vessels like Birkenhead, Guardian, or Toya Maru.
Included in the collection are stories of heroism, cowardice, and survival against all odds.
These descriptions are not meant to be definitive. Rather, they are brief summaries of events that hopefully will encourage readers to find out more about the events that interest them the most.
To this end, a selected bibliography is included at the conclusion to the work. Readers may also wish to mine the wealth of information provided on the Internet.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHank Kellner
Release dateAug 9, 2013
ISBN9781301571963
MAYDAY: 99 Disasters and Tragedies on the High Seas
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Hank Kellner

Hank Kellner is a veteran of the Korean War and a retired associate professor of English currently based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of 125 Photos for English Composition Classes (J. Weston Walch, 1978); How to Be a Better Photographer (J. Weston Walch, 1978); Write What You See (Prufrock Press, 2010); and, with co-author Elizabeth Guy, Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing (Prufrock Press, 2013).

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