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The Wreck of the Saginaw: The Account Left by her Captain, Montgomery Sicard

The Wreck of the Saginaw: The Account Left by her Captain, Montgomery Sicard

Sandhu, Pyara Bagg
Srey, Cornelia Bagg

Paperback

ExplorationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0692980377
ISBN13: 9780692980378
Publisher: Cornelia Srey Lang Srey and Pyara Sandhu, Wri
Published: Nov 22 2017
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It started with a manuscript left in a desk... October 29, 1870: A 155-foot Navy steam sloop has just completed her mission - widen the entrance to a harbor for ships in the China trade. Before returning to San Francisco, however, her captain decides to make a detour. To the most remote island in the Hawaiian chain, to be sure no one is shipwrecked there. But they hit a reef in the dark; now, they're shipwrecked themselves. When they don't turn up in San Francisco a rescue ship will be sent out, but they'll be looking for the crew in the wrong place - on the island they left the day before.This is a survivor's account of the crew's desperate attempts to save themselves, given by the captain to his cousin and left in a desk drawer. A true story, published a century and a half after the wreck by members of the captain's family. Relevant today because where the men were shipwrecked was like the ends of the earth in 1870; they may as well have been shipwrecked on Mars. This book makes a truly meaningful gift for an adult, or for a teen. It includes George H. Read's The Last Cruise of the Saginaw.

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