The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743235037 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Shaw lays out the immediate and secondary causes of the disaster: bad weather, no established shipping lanes, the ship's owners' preference for speed rather than prudence, and an appalling lack of safety precautions. Shaw's The Sea Shall Embrace Them tells the story of this disaster, eerily similar in many ways to the later sinking of the Titanic. By the mid-19th century, steamships were eclipsing traditional sailing ships in the lucrative transatlantic trade. O'Billovitch. David W. As well, he describes the suffering and grotesque deaths of many aboard and dozens of acts of pure cowardice on the part of the crew. The story of the Arctic is not only sad and the tragedy avoidable, but one that, as Shaw points out, would be repeated many times in the decades to follow. The writing for the most part is vivid and effective, though the physical layout of the ship is somewhat murky. The largest of these, the American Arctic, collided with a smaller ve
She reported back that she enjoyed it. FrequentFlyer72 This book was a gift for my daughter. She reported back that she enjoyed it.. Gripping but Sad Account of Maritime Disaster Aussie Reader This new book by David Shaw tells the story of the tragic sinking of the United States Steamship `Arctic' in 1854. The `Arctic' was one of the new generation of ocean travelling boats offering the paying public comfort and speed whilst crossing the Atlantic. Involved in a race against the liners of the British owned and operated Cunard Company the `Arctic' was set to break all records, trav. "Oh Captain! My Captain!" This book is evocative of the sorrow and loss at sea of which Walt Whitman wrote so emotionally. In contrast to Whitman's poem however, here the vessel - the steamship Arctic - did not make it to port, and rather than a son mourning for his lost father it was the other way around. The Captain of the Arctic, James C Luce, was grief-struck as he helplessly watched his son and the vast majorit
David W. Not only did 400 people -- including Luce's own frail son -- die by daybreak, but the wreck also ended the domination of the seas by the American maritime fleet for the rest of the nineteenth century. Utterly compelling, The Sea Shall Embrace Them is a stirring slice of heretofore little-known American history. Beautifully written, it puts the reader on deck as a ship full of men, women, and children do battle both with a mighty ocean and with their own baser instincts.. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous crew as they took the lifeboats and left hundreds of passengers to suffer a cruel and painful death. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic's heroic captain, James C. The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history