Download or read book The Wreck of the Portland written by J. North Conway and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic.” The Portland was one of New England's largest and most luxurious paddle steamers, and after nine years' solid performance, she had earned a reputation as a safe and dependable vessel. In November 1898, a perfect storm formed off the New England coast. Conditions would produce a blizzard with 100 miles per hour winds and 60-foot waves that pummeled the coast. At the time there was no radio communication between ships and shore, no sonar to navigate by, and no vastly sophisticated weather forecasting capacity. The luxurious SS Portland, a sidewheel steamer furnished with chandeliers, red velvet carpets and fine china, was carrying more than 200 passengers from Boston to Portland, Maine, over Thanksgiving weekend when it ran headlong into a monstrous, violent gale off Cade Cod. It was never seen again. All passengers and crew were lost at sea. More than half the crew on board were African Americans from Portland. Their deaths decimated the Maine African American community. Before the storm abated it became one of the worst ever recorded in New England waters. The storm, now known as “The Portland Gale,” killed 400 people along the coast and sent more than 200 ships to the bottom, including the doomed Portland. To this day it is not known exactly how many passengers were aboard or even who many of them were. The only passenger list was aboard the vessel. As a result of this tragedy, ships would thereafter leave a passenger manifest ashore. The disaster has been blamed on the hubris of the captain of the Portland, Hollis Blanchard, who decided to leave the safety of Boston Harbor despite knowing that a severe storm was hurtling up the coast. Blanchard, a long-time mariner, had been passed over for a promotion for a younger captain. He decided he wanted to show the steamship company that they had made a mistake by getting the Portland safely into port ahead of the imminent storm. Author J. North Conway has created here a personal, visceral account of the sinking and the times and the people involved, with stories to bring readers onto the Portland that day: Here is Eben Heuston, the chief steward onboard the ill-fated ship. More than half of the crew of the ship were African Americans. Hueston was an African American who lived in the Portland community of Munjoy Hill and was a member of the Abyssinian Church. After the sinking of the Portland the African American community disappeared and the church closed. And Emily Cobb a nineteen year old singer from Portland’s First Parish Church who was scheduled to give her first recital at the church on that Sunday. And Hope Thomas who came to Boston to shop for Christmas and because she decided to exchange some shoes she purchased missed taking the ill-fated Portland. Because of the lack of communications from Maine to Cape Cod, it was days before anyone was able to get word about the fate of the ship or survivors. Author J. North Conway has painstakingly recreated the events, using first-hand sources and testimonies to weave a dramatic, can’t-put-it down narrative in the tradition of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Walter Lord’s enduring classic, A Night to Remember. He brings the tragedy to life with contemporaneous accounts the Coast Guard, from Boston newspapers such as the Globe, Herald, and Journal, and from The New York Times and the Brooklyn DailyEagle.
Download or read book And the Sea Shall Have Them All written by Art Milmore and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the tragic loss of the palatial side-wheel steamer portland in the horrific gale on november 26 and 27th 1898. the ship sank with all hands,was witnessed by no-one and disappeared without trace. the wreck would not be found until 91 years later. it would remain new england's greatest maritime mystery. the book solves 2-100 year old mysteries. exactly how and why the ship sank. the second mystery involves the 35 year search by sara fuller, who's great grandfather john whitten perished on the portland resulting with her grandmother audrey being given-up for adoption at age 6. she had been looking for the whitten half of the family. for the first time in history,her family is finally all accounted for. so many things happened in the storm,it defied all logic, as the wreck was found over 25 miles from where it was thought to have sunk. for this was a storm like no other with 100 miles per hour winds,40 foot waves and o degree temperatures. before it was over it would sink 150 ships and kill 450 mariners. also covered is the incredible rescue crew headed by the world champion of lifesavers-captain joshua james of the point- allerton lifesaving station in hull mass. my mentor mr. edward-rowe-snow worked on the book for 35 years before his death followed by 32 years on my part. the research totaled 67 years. the evidence as to how and why the portland sank lies on the wreck..the author saw 11 hours of underwater video on the wreck, and went on 2 oceanographic expeditions to the wreck. on the first one,he laid a wreath exactly over the wreck in memory of his mentor edward-rowe-snow and to the 192 passengers and crew who perished on the ship. history has finally come full circle.
Download or read book Shipwreck at Portland Point written by Peter W. Benoit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Download or read book A Dream of a Woman written by Casey Plett and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Couldn’t Hear You Talk Anymore,” the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman. An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book Four Short Blasts written by Peter Dow Bachelder and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ice Wreck written by Lucille Recht Penner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shackleton’s Antarctic journey took courage and perseverance. Now his story is told in a full-color early chapter book! In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for the South Pole. They never made it. Within sight of land, the ship ran into dangerous waters filled with chunks of ice. Then the sea froze around them! There was no hope of rescue. Could Shackleton find a way to save himself and his men?
Download or read book Storms and Shipwrecks of New England written by Edward Rowe Snow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.
Download or read book The Circus Ship written by Chris Van Dusen and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The verse is sprightly, but the pictures are the true stunners.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own, but they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard. With buoyant rhymes and brilliantly caricatured illustrations evoking the early nineteenth century, Chris Van Dusen presents a hugely entertaining tale about the bonds of community?—?and a hidden-pictures spread for eagle-eyed readers of all ages.
Download or read book Great Shipwrecks of the Maine Coast written by Jeremy D'Entremont and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows the maritime history of the Northeast any better than D'Entremont, and with this small volume he begins a series of histories about the shipwrecks, lighthouses, and sea heroes of New England. Includes archival black-and-white photos and etchings.
Download or read book Triumph at the falls written by Leland R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last True Poets of the Sea written by Julia Drake and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Far from the Tree, We Are Okay and Emergency Contact will love this epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Hesperus written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portland s Maritime History written by Rebecca Harrison and Daniel Cowan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portland is not only the site of numerous marine terminals along the Willamette and Columbia Rivers but also home to much of our American maritime history. Portland shipbuilding started in 1840 with construction of the schooner Star of Oregon. Over 100 years later, three Portland shipyards would build 621 ships for the war effort. Both before and after World War II, several steel and iron companies used the harbors in Portland for their manufacturing. Aside from production, Portland ships over 13 million tons of cargo every year and is the biggest shipper of wheat in the United States. The city displays this maritime history along its beautiful rivers"--Back cover.
Download or read book Hidden History of Martha s Vineyard written by Thomas Dresser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated local historian Thomas Dresser unearths the little-known stories that laid the foundations for the community of Martha's Vineyard. Behind the mansions and presidential vacations of Martha's Vineyard hide the lost stories and forgotten events of small-town America. What was the island's role in the Underground Railroad? Why do chickens festoon Nancy Luce's grave? And how did the people of the Vineyard react in 1923 when the rum running ship John Dwight sank with the island's supply of liquor aboard? Delve deep below the surface of history to discover the origin and meaning of local place names and the significance of beloved landmarks.
Download or read book The Cape Cod Canal Breaking Through the Bared and Bended Arm written by J. North Conway and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Cape Cod including the creation of the iconic New England landmark, The Cape Cod Canal. The cradle of New England's shipping doubled as its casket, earning the sailing route around Cape Cod the nickname of graveyard of the Atlantic. J. North Conway plunges into the character of Cape Cod, from its discovery to its chowder, and of the man who managed to cut a path through it.
Download or read book Fugitives and Refugees written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Cafe? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America's "fugitives and refugees." Get to know these folks, the "most cracked of the crackpots," as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise believe actually exist. Here are strange personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost stories. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers' sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe's famous 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into strange local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo. Oh, the list goes on and on.
Download or read book The Federal Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
