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1) Titanic
Author
Series
Description
Offers detailed descriptions of the Titanic, including its accommodations, and a retelling of its sinking in the North Atlantic in April, 1912.
2) Shipwrecks
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Author
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Description
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 x 26 cm.
Description
An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history...
12) Ghost ships
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Description
Presents strange and unusual stories and myths about mysterious ships that have disappeared, been abandoned by their crew, or sank while on the high seas.
16) The cay
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Series
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
17) Titanic
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Description
Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.
18) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 13
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a massive hurricane off the coast of Florida, an elderly woman seeks Doc Ford's assistance in combing the reshaped ocean bottom for evidence that would exonerate a loved one for alleged activities during World War II.
19) Titanic sinks!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
72 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Description
Presents the true story of the building and launching of the Titanic and offers a "you are there" feeling when the steamship struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage.
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