Final voyage : the world's worst maritime disasters /
With disasters from all over the world, these are stories of the people, whether they lived or died, as well as the ships.
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- In the hands of God. Catastrophe at sea during the Age of Sail
- America's Titanic. Triumph aboard the Sultana
- The Halifax explosion. The loss of a ship, the devastation of a city
- War at sea. From the Spanish Armada to the Bismarck
- Britain's darkest hour. The loss of the Lancastria and why Churchill covered it up
- The age of total loss. Tragedy without triumph during the Second World War
- Ten thousand dead. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
- Worse than Titanic. Maritime disasters since the Second World War.