A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California (Amazing Stories) (Amazing Stories (Heritage House))
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1926613732 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and is past-president of the Canadian Authors Association. He lives in Tsawwassen, British Columbia.. Anthony Dalton is the author of numerous books on maritime history including The Graveyard of the Pacific, The Fur-Trade Fleet, Alone against the Arctic, and Sir John Franklin
Here are the dramatic tales of ships that met their end on this treacherous coastline—including Princess Sophia, Benevolence, Queen of the North and others.. On September 8, 1923, seven US Navy destroyers rammed into jagged rocks on the California coast. From San Francisco's fog-bound Golden Gate to the stormy Inside Passage of British Columbia and Alaska, the magnificent west coast of North America has taken a deadly toll. Five years earlier, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship Princess Sophia steamed into Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska's Lynn Canal. Twenty-three sailors died that night. When she sank, she took 353 people to their deaths
--BC Books for BC Schools. Vintage photographs capture the flavour--and sometimes the terror--of those terrible incidents. This title in the Amazing Stories series describes the tragic fates of 14 vessels lost in the waters of North America's west coast between 1853 and 2006 Each catastrophe is concisely but evocatively described
Second Helping of Pacific Northwest Shipwrecks! Anthony Dalton serves up another tragical history tour of shipping losses in the treacherous waters of the Pacific Northwest in A LONG, DANGEROUS COASTLINE, a 2010 release from Heritage House. Sub-titled SHIPWRECK TALES FROM ALASKA TO CALIFORNIA, Dalton's book describes the fate of 1Second Helping of Pacific Northwest Shipwrecks! Mike O'Connor Anthony Dalton serves up another tragical history tour of shipping losses in the treacherous waters of the Pacific Northwest in A LONG, DANGEROUS COASTLINE, a 2010 release from Heritage House. Sub-titled SHIPWRECK TALES FROM ALASKA TO CALIFORNIA, Dalton's book describes the fate of 14 vessels that came a cropper in the stormy, fog-bound waters of North America's west coast.A LONG, DANGEROUS COASTLINE spans the years from 1853. vessels that came a cropper in the stormy, fog-bound waters of North America's west coast.A LONG, DANGEROUS COASTLINE spans the years from 1853