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My Mystery Ships
Author | : Gordon Campbell |
Publisher | : Periscope Publishing Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Armed merchant ships |
ISBN | : 9781904381075 |
Gordon Campbell remains one of the Royal Navy's greatest heroes. His exploits as the most successful Q-ship captain of World War I made him into a household name. His mystery ships, Farnborough, Pargust and Dunraven fought the most gruelling duels with German submarines, sinking three of them.
My Mystery Ships (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Gordon Campbell |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780331055672 |
Excerpt from My Mystery Ships Whether my book satisfies the curious or disappointment, I hope the various fantastic which have been associated with my name wi be laid at rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ghost Ship
Author | : Brian Hicks |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0345478355 |
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.
Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
Author | : Bland Simpson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807856178 |
In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, all sails set, wrecked on the treacherous Diamond Shoals. Rescuers rushed to the ship, but when they arrived
The Mystery Ship
Author | : Percy F. Westerman |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2018-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720417101 |
The Mystery Ship
The Mystery Ships of Nova Scotia in the First World War
Author | : John Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781926908717 |
THEY SAILED INTO HARM'S WAY dressed as ordinary fishermen, seeking to be attacked by German submarines. This armed team faced danger, frayed nerves, and boredom. Because their mission was secret, they could not explain their service to Canada in the First World War. In this brisk, readable and respectful history, John N. Grant tells the long-buried story of Canada's Mystery Fleet. He names men who tried to lure U-boats into range, and then sailed into anonymity--until now. Many historic photographs.
My Mystery Ship
Author | : Gordon Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |