epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN TETHER OURSELVES TOGETHER Drowning and hypothermia are the first two obstacles that JP, Rudy, and Ben will have to overcome to stay alive through the day, but not ...

epub |eng | 2008-02-17 | Author:Kevin Rushby

9 Marooned O my America, my new found land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned, My mine of precious stones, my empery, How blessed am I in this ...

epub |eng | | Author:Veronica Hinke

Edith Rosenbaum Russell was outspoken in her contention that the ship’s band did not play “Nearer My God to Thee,” and that it did not continue playing as the Titanic ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Gareth Russell

I. The davits could have accommodated a second vertical row of lifeboats, which was added to the Olympic after the Titanic’s sinking. Prior to the disaster, it was felt too ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:George Biddlecombe

SLINGS for Lower Yards are generally of chain (round the middle of the yard), with a shackle or slip, to connect it with the mast-head slings, which are also of ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Mark Stille [Stille, Mark]

This plate shows three ships of the Kuma class at different points of the war. Tama is shown in the top profile in its 1942 configuration. Note the camouflage scheme ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Adrian Stewart [Stewart, Adrian]

Notes 1 Canberra was only one of a number of losses suffered by the Australians in the early part of the Pacific War. Britain therefore arranged the transfer of heavy ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1985-09-21 | Author:Richard Woodman

The breeze came from the west at mid-morning. Setting all sail, Drinkwater pressed Antigone to the east-north-east. Then, at six bells in the forenoon watch there was a brief lifting ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Michael Schumacher [Schumacher, Michael]

Marlys Mays is prepared neither for the news that her husband is one of the two survivors or for the rush of reporters turning up at her front doorstep. Before ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Geoff Tibballs [Tibballs, Geoff]

When the ship first struck, none of us dreamed of the danger we faced. All who had been asleep after the first rush to the decks returned to their cabins ...

epub, pdf, mobi |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:Daniel Allen Butler [Butler, Daniel Allen]

No one ever knew how well or how poorly John Jacob Astor met his end. It would be nice perhaps to say that, like the Thane of Cawdor, “nothing in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Stephen Hines

Slowly, and with her speed continually decreasing as New York came nearer, the Carpathia advanced to port. The reporters refrained from the futile task of hurling questions at the silent ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Peter Hernon [Hernon, Peter]

KENTUCKY LAKE JANUARY 13 4:50 P.M. “IT’S GONE. THE WHOLE THING’S GONE,” BOBBY said in astonished disbelief as he stared at what was left of the Kentucky Dam. Lauren thought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...