Disaster at Sea By Professor John Marriott. - Hardback
Disaster at Sea By Professor John Marriott.
Hard-back with dust-jacket, no inscriptions, jacket not clipped - a protective cover has been removed and left surface tear patches inside front and back boards, spine on jacket sun faded, otherwise as new.
- 176pp ISBN 9781856483483 Publisher: Promotional Reprint Society, 1996
Illustrated throughout with b/w photos, maps. Pictorial laminated boards in jacket. The author relates a selection of peacetime tragedies including the capsizing of the British battleship Captain; the collisions of the liner Queen Mary and the cruiser Curacoa, and of the battleships Vanguard and Iron Duke; the stranding of the Torrey Canyon, the Titanic disaster, the sinkings of submarines Thetis, Thresher and Squalus; and the tragedy of the 1979 Fastnet Race.. Reprint.
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