Shipwreck from Naval Marine Archive

Goose Lane : Fredericton, N.B. c1998, by David Zeni, first Canadian edition , 224 p. : ill. b/w, col; foldout decking plans, 23 cm. includes index and bibliography. The sinking of the CPR Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence after colliding with the steamship Storstad, May 1914. Heavy will require more postage.

Doubleday Canada Ltd., 1976. 1st. very good/good.  The wreck of the Florizel in 1918 on the shore of Newfoundland was one of the most senseless disasters of Canadian maritime history. Brown’s book recounts the events and proposes a reason for the disaster.

David & Charles, 1967. 1967 2imp. good/good. ex-lib The 1967 wreck of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon on the west coast of England spilled a hundred thousand tons of crude oil into the sea and devastated the Cornish coast and sea coasts of Britain and France.

Hanover House, 1938. 1955. very good/good.  Eighteen tales of men and ships in stress on the oceans of the world. Includes, among others, the stories of the Titanic, the Lusitania, Mary Celeste, and the Battles of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa.

Naval Institiute Press, 1995. 1st US. fine/fine. The Isabella was wrecked on the remote and uninhabited Falkland Islands during the Napoleonic Wars This incredible story of survival, marooning, incredible feats of seamanship is all the more amazing for being true.  259 pages

Dorset Press, 1972. 3imp 1988. very good/very good. bw. The fire and shipwreck of the Morro Castle in 1934 killed 134 people.  This book details the case that the fire was not accidental but deliberately set by the ship’s radio operator. 287 pages