Download or read book The Wreck of the William Brown written by Tom Koch and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-one years before the "Titanic," a ship loaded with Irish immigrants struck an iceberg and plunged to the ocean floor. This chronicle of one of the 19th century's most infamous sea disasters and the uproar that followed presents a portrait of a forgotten time, re-creates a defining maritime trial, and tells of back room legal shenanigans.
Download or read book The Wreck of the William Brown written by Tom Koch and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventy-one years before the Titanic, a ship loaded with Irish immigrants struck an iceberg and plunged to the ocean floor. The ship's crew stepped into two lifeboats, leaving more than half the passengers behind. Fearing for their lives, one overburdened boat's crew threw 14 men and women overboard. And the story of The Wreck of the William Brown had only begun. This chronicle of one of the 19th century's most infamous sea disasters and the uproar that followed presents a portrait of a forgotten time, re-creates a defining maritime trial, and tells of back room legal shenanigans. Newspaper readership was exploding in the 1840s, and journalists jumped on this sensational story. The resulting investigations and trial gave us the concept of "lifeboat ethics."" --Google Books.
Download or read book The Black Man His Antecedents His Genius And His Achievements written by William Wells Brown and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight O May written by William T. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Justice delayed is justice denied." But what if the demand for justice reveals a shocking truth that could ruin your life? After finding part of a newspaper article about his uncle's racially motivated death in Mississippi, a series of strange coincidences triggers Charlie Dawson's search for answers regarding that decades-old event. When his mother ends up in the hospital for emergency surgery, he flies to his hometown to see her. He wastes no time trying to peel back the layers of secrecy to understand what happened decades ago and discovers it's his family who clings tightest to the truth. Not willing to leave and just let it go, Charlie gathers information from the townspeople, dredging up old memories and events better left forgotten... or better left hidden. He didn't expect to uncover that his family's shared history with the murderer-if revealed-could reach through the years and wreck his life.
Download or read book A Winter s Tale written by Cassie Brown and published by Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1976 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the wreck of the S.S. Florizel off the coast ofNewfoundland, February 23-24, 1918.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Corsair written by William Reney and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Mercy written by Eleanor Learmonth and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be both horrifying and ultimately self-destructive. Learmonth and Tabakoff outline the physical and neurological changes that typically affect the victims of disaster. Then, using true stories from history as case studies, they investigate the scenario famously imagined by William Golding in Lord of the Flies and borne out by the extraordinary Robbers Cave experiments of the 1950s. As this fascinating book unfolds the awful truth becomes clear. In extremis, humans are capable of a swift descent into murderous savagery that is both hard to believe - and impossible to forget. Eleanor Learmonth has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist in Japan and Australia. She has a reputation as a magnet for natural disasters. Jenny Tabakoff has been a senior journalist in Australia and Britain for The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and AAP. She is the co-author of Australian Style. Eleanor and Jenny live in Sydney with their husbands and children. They met at the school gate. 'Succinct yet considered, accessible yet authoritative, Learmonth and Tabakoff strike a happy balance between scholarliness and readability throughout...cogent presentation of some truly harrowing subject matter, which less responsible hands might have milked for vulgar sensationalism.' Bookseller and Publisher 'Well researched and well argued, lively and energetic, No Mercy is full of insights into leadership, loyalty, sacrifice and compassion that will challenge readers to wonder what they might do if similarly tested.' Booktopia Buzz 'Sometimes adversity brings out the best in people, at other times it does the opposite. This is about those other times...excellent reading when you’re safely at home.' Weekend Herald 'A fascinating post-mortem of how certain groups manage to survive while others flailed about in drunken, murderous chaos.' Daily Telegraph 'This fascinating book shines light on an awful truth.' Get Reading
Download or read book Thieves of Virtue written by Tom Koch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best paternalism of the traditional medical ethic and today plays a critical role in health policies and treatment decisions. Bioethics claimed to offer a set of generally applicable, universally accepted guidelines that would simplify complex situations. In Thieves of Virtue, Tom Koch contends that bioethics has failed to deliver on its promises. Instead, he argues, bioethics has promoted a view of medicine as a commodity whose delivery is predicated not on care but on economic efficiency. At the heart of bioethics, Koch writes, is a “lifeboat ethic” that assumes “scarcity” of medical resources is a natural condition rather than the result of prior economic, political, and social choices. The idea of natural scarcity requiring ethical triage signaled a shift in ethical emphasis from patient care and the physician's responsibility for it to neoliberal accountancies and the promotion of research as the preeminent good. The solution to the failure of bioethics is not a new set of simplistic principles. Koch points the way to a transformed medical ethics that is humanist, responsible, and defensible.
Download or read book The Wreck of the San Francisco written by John Stewart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 22, 1853, a new steamship left New York on its maiden voyage. The San Francisco--perhaps the finest ocean-going vessel of its time--had been chartered by the U.S. Government to transport the U.S. Army's Third Artillery Regiment to the Pacific Coast. Two days out, the ship ran into one of the great hurricanes of maritime history. Sails and stacks were blown away, the engine was wrecked and scores of people were washed overboard, as the men frantically worked the pumps to keep afloat. A few days later, cholera broke out. After two weeks adrift, the survivors were rescued by three ships. The nightmare was not over. Two of the vessels, damaged by the storm, were in no position to take on passengers. Provisions ran out. Fighting thirst, starvation, disease and mutiny, survivors barely made it back. Then came the aftermath--accusations, denials, revelations of government ineptitude and negligence, and a cover-up.
Download or read book Trial of Alexander William Holmes written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebrated Criminal Cases of America written by Thomas Samuel Duke and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Jersey Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 4-17 include General public acts passed by the 105th - 118th Legislature of the state of New Jersey and lists of members of the Legislature.
Download or read book Into the Maelstrom written by Colin Brittain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 29 October 1914 the hospital ship Rohilla left Queensferry with 234 people on board bound for Dunkirk. Just after 4 a.m. on 30 October there was a tremendous impact as the ship ran onto rocks at Saltwick Nab, a mile south of Whitby. Mortally wounded only 600 yards from shore, she was 'so close to land yet so far from safety'. It was impossible to launch the Whitby No. 1 lifeboat to aid those stranded on the ship, instead the No. 2 boat, John Fielden, was lifted over the sea wall and hauled over the rock Scar to opposite the Rohilla. Despite being holed, the lifeboat reached the wreck after great difficulty and rescued five nurses and twelve men. A further eighteen men were saved in a second trip, but damage to the lifeboat barred any further rescues. This book unfolds the heroic events that transpired as members of the public and lifeboatmen struggled to reach those stranded on the wreck. The final fifty souls were saved in an impressive rescue from a motor lifeboat that had travelled over 40 miles in perilous conditions to reach them. Of the 234 people on board the Rohilla eighty-nine were lost. Such was the effort involved that the RNLI bestowed some of its highest medals on several of those involved in the rescue. The loss of the Rohilla is still regarded as one of the worst tragedies to have occurred amongst the annals of the RNLI.
Download or read book A Winter s Tale written by Cassie Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Lakes Shipwrecks Survivals written by William Ratigan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets; the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on; the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale; and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the most famous maritime loss in modern times -- in Lake Superior in 1975. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling. Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism.
Download or read book Autobiography of John Younger written by John Younger and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1881 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wreck of the Isabella written by David Miller and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.
