Download or read book Rhode Island Disasters written by Jim Ignasher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a perfectly sound U.S. military fighter plane simply vanish from formation on a training flight? Why did the crew of a speeding train choose death over salvation? What really happened one foggy night in 1929 when the Coast Guard fired on a rumrunner in Narragansett Bay? Do guardian angels really exist? Can an airplane be jinxed? In his latest book, Jim Ignasher chronicles twenty-three long-forgotten tales of disaster in the Ocean State. His research includes declassified government reports, which allow for some stories to be told in their entirety for the first time. Collectively, these tales present heroes and villains, adventure and the human condition, strange happenings and unsolved mysteries.
Download or read book Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters in Rhode Island written by Bonnie M. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maritime Disasters of Rhode Island 1900 1981 written by Tullio David Pitassi and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of typescript.
Download or read book Rhode Island s Most Devastating Disasters and Most Calamitous Catastrophies written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhode Island Shipwrecks written by Charlotte Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island, the Ocean State, has more shipwrecks per square mile than any other state. The south coast and Block Island are the resting places of many shipwrecks, with many more located in Narragansett Bay. The record of shipwrecks in Rhode Island begins immediately after the arrival of Europeans in the early 17th century with the grounding of a Dutch trading vessel, and thousands more vessels came to grief in its waters in the following centuries, through bad weather, human error, equipment failure, and military action. Some of these shipwrecks were epic disasters, with many fatalities and the total loss of the vessel; others were relatively minor misfortunes in which the ships were salvageable. Many shipwrecks from the 19th century on into the 20th were captured in the dramatic images gathered here. These pictures show the variety of vessels that travelled Rhode Island's waters back when the ocean was the primary transportation corridor and the many ways in which they met misfortune.
Download or read book The Larchmont Disaster Off Block Island written by Joseph P Soares and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 11, 1907, the steamship Larchmont collided with the schooner Harry Knowlton. Thrown from their bunks, passengers of the Larchmont panicked and ran onto the ship's deck. Haphazardly loaded lifeboats set out only partially full, and shrieks from those left behind were heard in the distance. Nearly 150 passengers were lost that night. The men and women of Block Island courageously aided those in need and dealt with the horrors that washed ashore. Controversy swirled around the conduct of the captain and crew of the Larchmont as investigators tried to determine who was responsible for the collision. Authors Joseph and Janice Soares chronicle one of the greatest disasters in New England's waters.
Download or read book Sudden Sea written by R. A. Scotti and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story.
Download or read book Shipwrecks and Marine Disasters on the Shores of the Town of Westerly Rhode Island and Adjacent Waters written by Margaret Woodbury Carter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Things Get Wet written by Rhode Island Local Government Records Program and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enhancing the Preparedness and Response of the Rhode Island Transportation System in Natural Or Human caused Disasters written by Jeffry Cole Severson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Disasters in Rhode Island written by James F. Jenney and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a compilation covering over 300 years of military and paramilitary shipwrecks and maritime events which took place in Rhode Island waters including Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound and Rhode Island Sound. Jim Jenney's extensive research of naval vessels including foreign ships and privateers from 1745 to present times has been bound between two covers, describing individual shipwrecks, engagements, foundering, collisions, and related disasters. The book is a valuable collection of more than 130 events written by an experienced marine historian. Each event is a story in itself providing the reader historical information gleaned from hundreds of archival sources. The three sections of the book are arranged in chronological order covering three centuries of maritime events. Each story is illustrated with b&w photos or line drawings showing the design of the vessel as well as segments of maritime charts showing the approximate location of each incident documented.
Download or read book Disaster Medicine written by Gregory R. Ciottone and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new volume includes Individual Concepts and Events sections that provide information on the general approach to disaster medicine and practical information on specific disasters. You'll also find an exhaustive list of chapters on the conceivable chemical and biologic weapons known today, as well as strategies for the management of future events, or possible scenarios, for which there is no precedent."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Rhode Island Survivor A Classroom Challenge written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survivor GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to learn about their state through timed activities, prize suggestions and an official survivor certificate. The book includes timed, multiple-choice questions, fill in the blank questions, choose the appropriate dates and matching that are challenging and fun to answer. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards.
Download or read book The Life Savers written by Varoujan Karentz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible story of men against the sea and the U.S. Life Saving Service of the 19th century. Dramatic events culled from documented reports describe the forgotten service that saved lives from ships foundering on Rhode Island's shores. Included are synopsis of Rhode Island's worse marine disasters as the passenger steamer SS Larchmont in the dead of winter was holed and sunk by the schooner Harry Knowlton with a loss of 145 lives, to the rumored purposeful shipwrecker's on Block Island who decoyed wayward vessels to their doom to salvage wreckage and cargo. Dozens of shipwrecks and rescues by the men assigned to the Life saving stations are covered with direct words from the rescuers themselves.Varoujan Karentz describes the nine Life Saving Stations along Rhode Island's southern ocean shore and on Block Island. The men's feats who's motto “you have to go out, but you don't have to come back” often resulted in acts of heroism. For over 40 years they lived an extraordinary drama while at the same time made maritime history, which somehow faded into the past and disappeared. The author brings this all back coupled with actual reports from the Life Saving Service's archives.At each station its crew lived together and individually walked as a beach patrol looking for vessels in danger and signaling them to change course or summoning beach apparatus or launching their surfboat to attempt a rescue. Stories include the successful use of the breeches buoy where passengers or crew were hauled ashore directly from stranded vessels. The stations were manned during the winter months where severity of storms were maximum often mixed with snow and ice. Frostbite, exhaustion and boredom was common as was the fear of the sea. Karentz brings this all back in a realism of a variety of actual shipwreck events which happened at each station. The Life Savers with its saga of men who's stories are told event by event captures the imagination of brave men and thankful survivors. It is meaningful reading of yesteryear and how men suffered to save another unknown human being from the ravages of the sea.
Download or read book Revised List of Wrecks and Casualties that Have Occured Within Limits of the 3rd Life Saving District Coast of Rhode Island and Fishers Island 1752 1907 written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War II Rhode Island written by Christian McBurney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from all over the state - including, for the first time, many women - manufactured military equipment and built warships, most notably the Liberty ships at Providence Shipyard. Authors from the Rhode Island history blog smallstatebighistory.com trace Rhode Island's outsized wartime role, from the scare of an enemy air raid after Pearl Harbor to the war's final German U-boat sunk off Point Judith.
Download or read book The Decade written by Barbara T. Girard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
