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Format:
Book
Title:
Ghost ships : true stories of nautical nightmares, hauntings, and disasters
ISBN:
9780425175484
Publication Information:
New York : Berkley Books, ©2000.
Physical Description:
xiii, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Contents:
The ship of doom -- Without a trace -- The Queen's phantom guests -- The jinxed battleship -- Cyclops -- No joy aboard the Joyita -- The mail came through -- but the crew didn't -- Skeletons at sea -- Floating caskets -- A possible impossibility -- The great wave of death -- The ghost ship -- The Coast Guard's encounters with the bizarre -- Mona, the Isle of mystery -- Paradise unreached -- The galloping ghost of the Java Coast -- The Devil's Jaw -- The ghost and the lighthouse -- Titanic : a truth stranger than the truth -- Another ghost ship -- Revenge of the sea -- Ghosts at sea -- The sinking ships of the Rising Sun -- The greatest sailor of them all -- Ghost guard to the rescue -- Seagoing celebrities and their ghosts -- Ghosts on the Mississippi -- Phantom vessels -- The phantom of the Forrestal -- The death ships -- The southern oceans -- A typhoon that almost changed the history of the United States -- Death under the waves.
Summary:
The author has collected "a hundred years' worth of shipboard hauntings, mysteries, and catastrophes passed on from one generation of seafarers to the next," demonstrating that the real mysteries of the sea are even stranger than fiction.
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