Research Catalog

Ships gone missing / Robert J. Hemming.

Title
Ships gone missing / Robert J. Hemming.
Author
Hemming, Robert J.
Publication
Chicago : Contemporary Books, c1992.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance F551 .H416 1992Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description
vii, 197 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Summary
Most of work covers the Great Lakes storm of November 1913, but also includes sections on the Armistice Day storm of 1940, and November storms of 1958, 1966, and 1975. Shipping losses in all of the storms are recorded. Includes material about the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Subject
  • Storms > Great Lakes (North America) > History > 20th century
  • Shipwrecks > Great Lakes > History > 20th century
  • Shipwrecks > Great Lakes (North America) > History > 20th century
  • Great Lakes (North America) > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-192) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
ch. 1. A prologue -- pt. 1. On Superior -- ch. 2. "The season of wrecks" -- ch. 3. "Find something to grab" -- ch. 4. "You've made me lose my boat" -- ch. 5. The unlucky skipper and the Jonah boat -- ch. 6. "Wire the owners that I'm coming" -- ch. 7. "I'll tell your father we passed you" -- pt. 2. Lake Michigan -- ch. 8. "Might see you in heaven" -- ch. 9. The weather ashore -- pt. 3. Deadly Huron -- ch. 10. Dancing Chauncey's last waltz -- ch. 11. "She can't be pumped out" -- ch. 12. "Boy, you're going to see a storm such as you've never seen before" -- ch. 13. "I'll never catch the Wexford" -- ch. 14. "It was a rather unpleasant trip down" -- ch. 15. "They took the damned coal" -- ch. 16. "The whereabouts of the Regina will forever be a mystery" -- ch. 17. "Oh, come with me, Arz, come with me" -- pt. 4. The end of it -- ch. 18. "Good-by, Nellie" -- ch. 19. "A terrible price has been paid" -- ch. 20. "It's just like you to attend your own wake" -- ch. 21. "It's the Price" -- ch. 22. "Who is to blame" -- ch. 23. An epilogue.
ISBN
0809239094 (cloth) :
LCCN
^^^92019576^
OCLC
25965726
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library