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The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod
9781609490508
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%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.
Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913:
9781626190610
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9781626193369
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896
9781596296121
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Families watched in horror as walls of water swept away homes and businesses, and men held onto saplings for their lives while the winds howled.
The destruction was beyond belief. Buildings on Atsena Otie were swept away so completely that only cracked stone foundations remained, and the forests of red cedar that gave the islands their name and livelihood were flattened. Resulting in dozens of deaths and millions of dollars in damage, Hurricane Number 4 in 1896 changed the Cedar Keys forever and set the city on a path to the present. Historian Alvin F. Oickle, drawing on firsthand accounts and extensive archival research, tells the story of ordinary Floridians who were faced, like so many before and so many since, with nature's fury.
Disaster on the Potomac
9781596298132
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard:
9781609495107
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9781626196384
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9781626191976
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Yellow Fever on Galveston Island
9781467146555
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $16.49 Save 25%Jan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston's fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death.
In the summer of Galveston's founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease's cause and cure remained elusive, as did the medical institutions Galveston would need treat the illness. Four thousand souls perished in nine epidemics between 1839 and 1867. By the time of Galveston's final Yellow Fever outbreak in 1903, however, residents were better informed and equipped. Discover the key figures and pivotal events of the island city's experience with the mosquito-borne disease.
Explosion at Morgan:
9781609495176
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