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Index
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Unusual
Death and Destruction by Hailstones!
In the Days of Little or No Communication
A Torpedo or a Collision?
The Double Demise of the Bessie Dodd
The Barque Constance: A Storm, a Medal, a Drowning, a Race, a Stabbing, a Lawsuit
Mystery of the Loss of the Belle of Burgeo
Part 2: Wreck
The Wreck of the Dispatch
St. Shotts Rocks: Making Captains Another Shade of Grey
The Wreck of the SS Delta
The Curious Tale of the Cow Head Salvagers
The Unlucky Plover: Four Times in Wreck
Only Half Enough to Eat: After the Loss of the General Rawlinson
One of the Most Talked-About Wrecks in Our History
Part 3: Danger
Between Scylla and Charybdis: St. Lawrence and Lawn
Caught Between Lawn Point and Chamber’s Pinnacle
Gone Past Her Prime: The Devon
Sickness at Sea
Part 4: Anxiety
Posted as Missing: The Hawker
Where Do We Find the Susan E. Inkpen?
A Derelict
The Grim Tale of the Reaper
What Ship Is This?
Part 5: Survival
Hope Dies Hard With a Sailor
Two Fishermen Carried to Sea on a Raft
The Perils of the Pauline
The Itaska on the Saint Pierre Rocks
The Atalaya: One Survivor
Part 6: Abandonment
Rescued in Mid-Atlantic
Taken to Cuba: The Moran’s Exhausted Crew
A Roundabout Voyage Home
Eleven Days Drifting in the Atlantic
Brigantine Seretha and the Good Samaritan
Part 7: Court
The Curious Case of the Fife
Yet Another Fife
Ashore at Red Bay: The Aftermath
The Inquiry: Seven Deaths on the Pubnico Belle
The Casting Away of the Bessie Dodd: “A Remarkable Marine Story Exposed”
The Ivydene’s Negligent Captain
Prison Time for the Crew of the Birch Hill
Part 8: People
Down Under Wreck: Captain Williams
Some Honeymoon! On the SS Virgo
Broke and Disgusted
Captain Moores’s Third Shipwreck
What A Way To Celebrate Christmas
It Could Have Taken the Whole Family: The Corsair
Captain Cave’s Heavy Loss
The Price of Lobster
SS Bar Haven Aground at Ragged Point
The Only Thing I Saved Was a Twelve-Gauge Shotgun: The Keith and Kevin on the Labrador Coast
Part 9: Conflict
HMS Comus
Surviving the Gas of World War I
Maid of Harlech: Another Vessel Gone
What Happened after Watanga
Buchans Gold Finally Reaches England: Twenty-Nine Years Later
SS Rothermere and Humber Arm
The Four Chaplains Leave St. John’s on the USAT Dorchester
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
Sources
About the Author
Index
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