Research Catalog

Title

Rock and tempest, fire and foe : from the shipping files of Robert Parsons.

Author

Parsons, Robert Charles, 1944-

Publication

Grand Bank, N.L. : Books of the Sea, 2010.

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Details

Description

x, 286 p. : ill., facsims., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• Shipwrecks > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Seafaring life > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Ships > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Naufrages > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Vie en mer > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Navires > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes indexes.
• LC copy signed by author

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- 1. The Crew Put Up A good Fight -- 2. On Yonder Dismal Cliffs -- 3. The Sea Takes a Policeman -- 4. 'Lawful Prizes' from the Sea -- 5. Thwarting the "Wrackers" -- 6. Losing Out to the Newfoundland Pirates -- 7. No Response, Only the Shrieking Wind -- 8. Another Fine Ship Lost -- 9. For a Priceless Service Rendered -- 10. Naked and Hungry -- 11. Swept onto a Treacherous Coast -- 12. Adrift and Dying -- 13. In the Early Morning Fog -- 14. Incidents in the Mid-Atlantic -- 15. Nothing Further Was Known of It -- 16. Derelict at Sea -- 17. Two Spars Sticking Above Water -- 18. The Last of Their Kind -- Acknowledgements -- Index A-Newfoundland and Labrador Ships, Towns and Shipwrecks -- Index B-Newfoundland and Labrador Surnames -- About the Author.

ISBN

9780978111434 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010533956

OCLC

637441268

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library