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Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it
- Title
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it / Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou.
- Author
- Murphy, Brian, 1959-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Vlahou, Toula
- Description
- xvi, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Describes the 1856 maritime tragedy of a ship traveling to New York that hit an iceberg and left its passengers adrift four hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
- "The small ship making the Liverpool to New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story."--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy
- TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
- Shipwrecks > North Atlantic Ocean
- John Rutledge (Ship)
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- Nye, Thomas W., 1834-1905
- Biographies
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Biography
- Survival at sea > North Atlantic Ocean > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9515
- ISBN
- 9780306902000
- 0306902001
- LCCN
- 2018004033
- OCLC
- 1019618448
- Author
- Murphy, Brian, 1959- author.
- Title
- Adrift : a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic- and the one who lived to tell about it / Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Vlahou, Toula, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9515