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The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic

Shaw, David W.

Paperback

BoatingTravel General19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0743235037
ISBN13: 9780743235037
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 6 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.34
Language: English
The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic's heroic captain, James C. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous crew as they took the lifeboats and left hundreds of passengers to suffer a cruel and painful death. Not only did 400 people -- including Luce's own frail son -- die by daybreak, but the wreck also ended the domination of the seas by the American maritime fleet for the rest of the nineteenth century.

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