Disasters at Sea: A Visual History of Infamous Shipwrecks

398 Pages·2014·22.68 MB·English

by  Liz Mechem

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Miranda - The Tempest by John William Waterhouse, 1916
O
, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave
vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in
her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!
—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
C
ONTENTS
SHIPWRECKS AROUND THE WORLD
Down into the Depths
1 · N F
ATURE’S URY
The San Agustin
Spanish Treasure off the California Coast
Nuestra Señora de Atocha
Sunken Treasure in the Florida Keys
The 1715 Treasure Fleet
The Wreck of the Wealth of the Indies
The Essex
Rendezvous with the Leviathan
USS Monitor
The Ill-Fated Ironclad
The General Grant
Gold, Castaways, and Sealskin Suits
RMS Rhone
Haunted Wreck of the Caribbean
USS Wateree
Shipwreck on Land
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
Vanished
The Endurance
The Greatest Antarctic Rescue of All Time
S A
HIPPING IN THE RCTIC
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
Tragedy on Lake Superior
2 · T F F
HE ATAL LAW
The Vasa
Royal Sweden’s Vainglorious Jewel
The Medusa
Betrayal and Brutality
SS Metropolis
A Pitiful Ruin on the Outer Banks
SS Eastland
Summer Outing Turned to Ruin
SS Princess Sophia
Alaska’s Greatest Tragedy
MS Estonia
Death in the Baltic
MV Le Joola
A Modern African Tragedy
The Prestige
Europe’s Deadliest Oil Spill
E W
COSYSTEM RECKS
MS al-Salam Boccaccio
Betrayal on the Red Sea
3 · C C
OLLISION OURSE
The Tek Sing
The Ill-fated True Star
HMS Birkenhead
Chivalry to The Last Man
RMS Titanic
Pride Goes Before a Fall
W D
RECK IVING
RMS Empress of Ireland
Collision in the Fog
SS Mont-Blanc
A Disaster for the Ages
The Andrea Doria
Last of the Great Luxury Liners
MV Doña Paz
Collision with an Inferno
4 · P , M S
IRACY UTINY, AND KULLDUGGERY
The Batavia
Starvation, Treachery, and Murder
The Henrietta Marie
A Slave Ship Disappears
The Whydah
From Slave Galley to Pirate Ship
The Queen Anne’s Revenge
Blackbeard’s Flagship
P
IRATES
HMS Bounty
Mutiny in the South Pacific
SS Tonquin
From Trapping to Terror
The Golden Venture
Smuggled Human Cargo
5 · C W
ASUALTIES OF AR
The Mary Rose
Grand Warship of Henry VIII
The Spanish Armada
Might of an Empire
L’Orient
Napoleon’s Flagship
W A S
ARSHIPS IN THE GE OF AIL
RMS Lusitania
U-boat Attack
HMHS Britannic
The Titanic’s Unlucky Sister
RMS Laurentic
Secret Cargo
KMS Bismarck
Third Reich Leviathan
USS Arizona
Firestorm in Paradise
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
The World’s Deadliest Maritime Disaster
USS Indianapolis
Secret Mission, Silent Demise
ARA General Belgrano
Conflict at the Bottom of the World
6 · M !
YSTERY
The Santa Maria
Lost Ships of Columbus
The Trinidad
California’s Mystery Caravel
The Monongahela
Here Be Dragons
The Mary Celeste
The Phantom Crew
SS Waratah
Into Thin Air
SS Tubantia