The Burton Agnes Disaster

The Burton Agnes Disaster
Author: Richard Jones
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1861511981

In the early hours of an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners-of-war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some inexplicable reason, with the train just yards away, the soldier behind the wheel of the truck did not stop. Instead he pressed the accelerator pedal… The scene was set for a terrible tragedy - one which was largely forgotten, until author Richard Jones began to investigate the story 60 years later.

RMS Titanic – The Bridlington Connections

RMS Titanic – The Bridlington Connections
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244187533

Most people have learned about the tragic story of the luxury liner Titanic, but how many could list the links the ship has to the small town of Bridlington in East Yorkshire? Years of Titanic research has led to the author compiling these links into one book which answers questions such as: - Which Titanic survivor was shipwrecked in Bridlington Bay? - What was thought lost for almost 100 years until going up for auction? - How many people in Bridlington have spent their lives researching Titanic? - Which Titanic victim had a plaque dedicated to them due to their time spent in Bridlington? Compiled with original research and photographs this is a small book but packed with information on Bridlington's connection to the world's most famous ship.

Capsized in the Solent - The SRN6-12 Hovercraft Disaster

Capsized in the Solent - The SRN6-12 Hovercraft Disaster
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1326584847

On 4th March 1972 a hovercraft capsized in stormy weather on a voyage from the Isle of Wight to Southsea. Five passengers were killed, but in a dramatic rescue operation involving air and sea units from miles around, the twenty-two others on board were rescued. This book tells the forgotten story of the capsizing of SRN6-012, the heroes who rose that day to save the survivors and the investigation that followed. Richard M. Jones has dedicated his life to researching disasters of historical significance that have been forgotten and has placed five memorials to such events around the UK. This is his fifth book.

Collision in the Night - The Sinking of HMS Duchess

Collision in the Night - The Sinking of HMS Duchess
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0244112347

On 12th December 1939, a collision in the Irish Sea led to the loss of the warship HMS Duchess and most of her crew. Only three months after the outbreak of the Second World War this disaster was immediately overshadowed by other wartime events, leaving this ship's fate lost to history. Now for the first time the life and voyages of this proud ship and the tragedy of her loss are told in full and those forgotten voices are lost no more.

Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered

Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0750998393

Is any disaster really forgotten? It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home. Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered is a look at the tragedies and disasters that may not have stayed in public memory, but are no less terrible than their more famous counterparts. From a late-nineteenth-century family massacre in London to two separate fatal crashes at Dibbles Bridge in Yorkshire, and the worst-ever aviation show crash in post-war Farnborough to the horrifying Barnsley Public Hall disaster – here are twenty-three accounts of true devastation and stunning bravery. They are tales that deserve to be remembered.

Austen Secret

Austen Secret
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0244818231

If Sidney Baron thought he could relax after the success that followed the discovery of the Boleyn Gold, he was wrong. Already rushed off their feet, a chance encounter with an American antiques dealer leads him and the team to drop everything and launch a quest for a document that could challenge what the world thinks it knows about regency England's most famous novelist. But why do things go very wrong so quickly? What happens when a false press report makes the team consider who they can really trust? Most of all who is the mysterious stranger who insists on sabotaging their every move? Sidney, Ali and Gemma are back for a new adventure in a race against time to prevent a treasure trove from being destroyed by an unknown adversary. Can they get there first? Or will the Austen Secret be lost forever?

Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances

Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances
Author: Richard M Jones
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2023-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 139904625X

When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have never been found, both famous and forgotten cases that have left an outward ripple of tragedy and mystique. Most people have heard of the Mary Celeste crew vanishing, but how many knew that this was not the last case of an entire crew going missing? What about the three Scottish lighthouse keepers who were never seen again? Or the world famous aviation pioneers who took flight to never return? This book will tell you that MH370 was not the first airliner to disappear over the sea, nor was the Bermuda Triangle actually the cause of so many disappearing ships. How could six airplanes disappear in one day? Why did a ship with over 300 people on board not send a single distress call? Which ships vanished and then later messages in a bottle suddenly turn up, not just once but two separate shipwrecks? Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances will cover all these and more as we reveal the stories of some of the most fascinating incidents above and below the waves.

The Diary of a Royal Marine

The Diary of a Royal Marine
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 024463310X

In the winter of 2016 author Richard M Jones had exclusive access to the personal collection of a Mr George Cutcher, a former Royal Marine who had fought in the First World War and had gone on to live a full and active life. Now for the first time his story is told with his entire diary published along with the story of his life. How he joined the Marines too young, how he trained future Kings in the gymnasium, going on to fight in both Gallipoli and the Somme before being medically discharged. His own accounts of the fighting in the trenches brings it home to the reader just how bad conditions were and his collection makes his entire story so very real.

Shipwrecks of the Solent

Shipwrecks of the Solent
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2024-03-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 139811751X

Discover the fascinating story of the many ships wrecked in the waters of the Solent between Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

Boleyn Gold

Boleyn Gold
Author: Richard M. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0244993793

Sidney Baron is a treasure hunter who is down on his luck. With nothing to show from all his ventures, he jumps at the chance to track down a possible cache of artefacts after the discovery of a journal dating back almost 500 years. What is this mysterious treasure and who is sabotaging their efforts? With the help of his daughter and best friend, they must race against time to locate what could be a treasure that changes everything we know about the Tudors. If they get to it first.