Download or read book The Ghost Ships of Archangel written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic split from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole. They were seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the many risks of their chosen route, the four vessels had a better chance of reaching their destination than the rest of the remains of convoy PQ-17. The convoy had started as a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the only help Roosevelt and Churchill had extended to Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance against Germany. At the most dangerous point of the voyage, the ships had received a startling order to scatter and had quickly become easy prey for the Nazis. The crews of the four ships focused on their mission. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was a first taste of war; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a British fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave them no respite from bombers or submarines, and they all feared the giant German battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed the "Big Bad Wolf." Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis as the remnants of convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic to deliver their cargo in one of the most dramatic escapes of World War II. At Archangel they found a traumatized, starving city, and a disturbing preview of the Cold War ahead.

Download or read book The Ghost Ship written by Richard Middleton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost Ship is a collection of stories by Richard Barham Middleton. Contents: The Ghost Ship, A Drama of Youth, The New Boy, On the Birghton Road, A Tragedy in Little, Shepherd's Boy, The Story of a Book and many more.

Download or read book The Ghost Ship written by Richard Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghost Ships written by Kevin Hile and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea has long provided humankind with wonder, and delightful or demented imaginations along with it. This book provides eyewitness accounts, paired with alternative explanations, to explore legends surrounding the mysterious appearances of ghost ships.

Download or read book Top 15 Ghost Ships written by Jade Summers and published by Jade Summers. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the chilling world of ghost ships and maritime mysteries with "Phantom Vessels: Legends of the Deep." 🌊⚓ From the spectral glow of the Flying Dutchman to the eerie silence of the Mary Celeste, this book takes you on a journey through the world's most haunting nautical legends. Discover the untold stories of cursed crews, mysterious vanishings, and supernatural encounters that have captivated sailors and landlubbers alike for centuries. Highlights: 🛳️ Unravel the mystery of the ghost ship, Octavius, frozen in Arctic ice. 🌫️ Explore the spine-tingling encounters with the Phantom Mariner. 🚢 Learn about the tragic love story aboard the Lady Lovibond. 🧭 Discover the unexplained disappearance of the Kaz II crew. 👻 Experience the chilling legends of the Ourang Medan and more! Prepare to be enthralled by tales that blur the line between history and the supernatural. Perfect for fans of maritime history, ghost stories, and anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the sea.

Download or read book The Flying Dutchman written by Megan Cooley Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost ship The Flying Dutchman has been spotted around the world for centuries. According to legend, this spooky ship is doomed to roam the seas forever, unable to make port. The ship is thought to be a bad omen for anyone who encounters it. Dating back to the 1600s, alleged sightings of the legendary ghost ship continue to this day.

Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Sharon Lee and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in the Liaden Universe® series. Over a quarter million copies sold in this series to-date! Space ships, action, adventure¾all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and family saga¾make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers alike. Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot¾and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. Whatever, thinks Theo. She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before! But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated¾and deadlier still. For even though shes survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds. Theo can run, but she cant hide. Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are LOTS of enemies who will try to make sure shes quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tenth entry in the NUMA Files series, by the author of ZERO HOUR and THE STORM"--

Download or read book Ghost Ships Gales and Forgotten Tales written by Wes Oleszewski and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shore-bound Great Lakes observer may be lucky enough to see the silhouette of one of the giant modern oreboats snailing upon the distant horizon. The courses and routes that these contemporary monsters follow have been well traveled by countless mariners for more than a century and a half. In the mid 1800s, it was often difficult to look toward the lakes from any single spot and see less than a half dozen distant boats at any time. Each of these vessels had a crew and each crewperson had a job to do and sometimes while just doing their jobs, these ordinary people found themselves cast into adventures that deserve telling. This book will attempt to do just that.

Download or read book Farscape Ship of Ghosts written by David Bischoff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronaut John Crichton and the crew of the "Moya" run afoul of a mysterious space vessel that only seems to be deserted. In truth, the ship belongs to a race of strange astral entities who lure the unlucky wayfayers into their clutches. Desperate to fulfill an ancient prophecy, the crew of the "ghost ship" will stop at nothing to escape their limbo-like existence.

Download or read book The Ghost Ship written by C. R. Turner and published by Chris Turner. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, a monolithic Timberwolf-class starship has been hidden, but now it’s about to reappear. Together with his girlfriend Sam and the rest of the Striker Force Raptor team, Joel has been assigned to retrieve this ghost ship and return it to its rightful owners. But what seems like an exhilarating adventure takes a dangerous turn amid chance encounters with black holes and hidden planets. When the team find the crew of the ghost ship dead with no discernible cause, they must figure out what happened—and if they themselves are at risk. In this quest for answers, Joel is about to face his worst nightmare. On this, his and Sam’s thirteenth mission with Striker Force Raptor, has their luck finally run out?

Download or read book The Ghost Ship Volume 3 written by Paul Regnier and published by Space Drifters. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is only one way forward for Glint. He and his crew undertake a risky mission to steal a crystalline energy source--the only object capable of saving Jasette's planet--from the immense spaceship of legend known as the ghost ship. If they're lucky, they'll escape with their lives . . . and Glint won't lose the woman he loves. The ghost ship is run by a nanotech kitten and an army of spider bots with zero tolerance for theft. Soon they are hot on the trail of Glint and his crew. Glint uses every piloting trick in the book to find safe haven but to no avail. The ghost ship tracks them from every space bar to remote outpost, getting closer at each turn. To make matters worse, Mar Mar the Unthinkable, the galaxy's most powerful gangster, wants revenge for Glint's double cross during their last encounter. Mar Mar sends a legion of fembots and bounty hunters to capture him dead or alive. With pursuers closing in, Glint and his crew must work together to survive their greatest threat and save Jasette's planet before it's too late.

Download or read book The Mathews Men written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." —Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942. From the late 1930s to 1945, virtually all the fuel, food and munitions that sustained the Allies in Europe traveled not via the Navy but in merchant ships. After Pearl Harbor, those unprotected ships instantly became the U-boats’ prime targets. And they were easy targets—the Navy lacked the inclination or resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore. As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety. The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant mariners’ life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.” Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.

Download or read book The Ghost Ship written by Andrene Low and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mary Celeste and SS Baychimo written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the ships *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading People love mysteries, which is a good thing since history is so replete with them. This is especially true among seafaring people, and of all the mysteries of the deep, few rise to the level of the Mary Celeste. In many ways, it is a story more suited for an episode of The X-Files than it is for any history book. There is the unlucky ship that began her sailing career under a cloud of bad fortune and accident. Then there is that handsome young captain, a man appearing to be of the highest moral fiber who chose to travel with his wife and young daughter rather than carouse with loose women. His crew was small but faithful, and his First Mate was an old friend. They set sail for Genoa late in 1872 but arrived instead in the history books, lost suddenly to a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. The first indication that anything unusual had happened came on December 5 of that year, when the Mary Celeste was found by another ship, the Dei Gratia, sailing safely and intact but completely devoid of human beings. The bed was unmade and the captain's cabin a bit untidy, but otherwise there was no sign of struggle. Or was there? A sword turned up with spots that some thought must be blood, and there were also mysterious cuts on the ship's railing, but at the same time, the ship's provisions were almost entirely untouched, leading some to theorize pirates attacked the ship and others to believe all of it consisted of normal wear and tear? The mystery might have been forgotten altogether shortly after, but young Arthur Conan Doyle, who would eventually earn fame for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries, helped popularize the Mary Celeste and its mysterious fate with his fictional story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement." Naturally, as the story spread, so did the rumors and the theories. Some believed the crew mutinied, while others speculated that the boat's own owner had those on board killed. As the decades passed, men turned up claiming to have new information, but nothing definitive was ever confirmed. By the early decades of the 20th century, the fur trade had tapered off some from its heyday in the 19th century, but it still proved profitable enough for hunters to live for months at a time in remote regions of Alaska. Their only contact with the outside world consisted of the company ships that came to buy their furs and bring them supplies. One of these vessels was the steamer Baychimo, a Hudson's Bay Company ship that plied the treacherous waters off Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Siberia for many years, supplying remote outposts of Inuit and Anglo trappers and bringing back their catch of furs. Her sailors were experts at handling Arctic waters, but one year the weather proved too much for them. In October of 1931, the Baychimo was carrying $1 million in furs for the Hudson's Bay Company when it was trapped by early winter pack ice in the Beaufort Sea. Ice is a powerful force of nature that can crush even the strongest of ships, so the captain had no choice but to order his crew of 14 men to unload all equipment essential for their survival and abandon the Baychimo. Nature had other ideas. On November 24, a month into their vigil, the crew had to hide inside their makeshift home as a fierce windstorm howled over the bleak icescape. However, when they could finally emerge into the daylight, they saw their ship had disappeared. The ghost ship continued to be sighted in the region for years afterwards. The Baychimo continued to float in the waters between Alaska and Siberia, mostly in the Beaufort Sea. The latest confirmed report was by some Native Americans in 1969, between Barrow and Icy Cape, almost four decades after it had been lost. It's remarkable that it survived storms, pack ice, and encroaching rust after all that time.

Download or read book The Mathews Men written by William Geroux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." —Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942. From the late 1930s to 1945, virtually all the fuel, food and munitions that sustained the Allies in Europe traveled not via the Navy but in merchant ships. After Pearl Harbor, those unprotected ships instantly became the U-boats’ prime targets. And they were easy targets—the Navy lacked the inclination or resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore. As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety. The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant mariners’ life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.” Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.

Download or read book The Ghost of the Mary Celeste written by Valerie Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1872: the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste is discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo is intact and there is no sign of struggle, but her crew has disappeared, never to be found. As news of the derelict ghost ship spreads, the Mary Celeste captures imaginations around the world—from a Philadelphia spiritualist medium named Violet Petra to an unknown young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle. In a haunted, death-obsessed age, the Mary Celeste is by turns a provocative mystery, an inspiration to creativity, and the tragic story of a family doomed by the sea. Based on actual events, spanning seas and continents, life and death, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass as truth.