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- NATURE / Natural Disasters
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Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire, The
9781467152877
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9781467135276
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Chronicling the devastating Strand Theatre Fire of 1941 and celebrating the community's heroes and resilience in the face of adversity.
On March 10, 1941, at 12:38 a.m., the Brockton Fire Department responded to Fire Alarm Box 1311, which was pulled for a fire at the Strand Theatre. Fire Alarm dispatched the deputy chief, three engine companies, a ladder company and Squad A. Within six minutes, a second alarm was struck. Less than one hour after the first alarm, the roof of the Strand collapsed, and what appeared to be a routine fire turned into a disaster that killed 13 firefighters and injured more than 20 others. The disaster marks one of the largest losses of life to firefighters from a burning building collapse in the United States.
Shipwrecks of Cape Cod
9781467147194
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9781467151672
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake
9781467139328
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Follow the tragic story of a fishing trip gone wrong and its impact on the community of Brockton, Massachusetts.
On May 13, 1928, ten prominent men of Brockton, Massachusetts, headed off on a fishing trip to Moosehead Lake in Maine. After traveling fourteen hours, the group met Maine guide Samuel Budden and boarded the Mac II for the final voyage to their destination. Approximately six miles from the Tomhegan sporting camp, the boat took on water in rough seas and sank, taking Budden and all but one of the adventurers to a watery grave. Jim Benson and Nicole Casper chronicle this horrific tragedy and its legacy in two New England communities.
Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank:
9781626198043
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Tragic Sinking of Gloucester's Patriot
9781467150866
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%On the evening of January 2, 2009, Captain Matteo Russo and crewman John Orlando got underway aboard the fifty-four-foot fishing vessel Patriot, from the iconic State Pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts, bound for nearby fishing grounds in search of cod. They never returned.
What happened less than eight hours later on that bitter and dark winter early morning that caused the Patriot to sink? Why did the Coast Guard deliberate more than two hours before launching a rescue mission? Using official documents, numerous interviews and insight as a search and rescue commander, maritime historian Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.), expertly documents the tragedy of the Patriot, with startling findings. He deftly explores the condition of "normalcy bias'? linked to this heartbreaking case, which can cause people--including Coast Guard personnel--to deny and sometimes over-deliberate threats to human life.
Disaster in Lawrence
9781596295063
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9781467119245
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9781609496791
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9781626195882
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9781609490508
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Get a first-hand account and fascinating new details of the story behind The Finest Hours, the film portraying the harrowing rescue of the SS Pendleton in 1952.
On February 18, 1952, off the coast of Cape Cod, a fierce nor'easter snapped in half two 503-foot oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer. Human grace and grit, leadership and endurance prevail as Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Russell Webster (Ret.) recount the historic, heroic rescue of thirty-two merchant mariners from the sinking Pendleton by four young Coast Guardsmen aboard the 36-foot motor lifeboat CG36500. A foreword by former Commandant Admiral Thad Allen (Ret.) and an essay by Master Chief John ""Jack"" Downey (Ret.), a veteran of thousands of modern-day small boat rescues, round out the special third edition of this classic work on Coast Guard history.
Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard:
9781609495107
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