Sailing's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Stories From Over Nine Hundred Years of SailingA curious collection of true stories from the stranger side of sailing, featuring the sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks, and the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. |
Contents
A Medieval Murder Mystery 1120 | 1 |
The Eddystone Light 1703 1755 | 16 |
The Ramillies and the Jebba 1760 1907 | 29 |
Fatal Figurehead 1800s | 44 |
Amazing Grace 1838 | 58 |
A Riveting Yarn 1857 | 71 |
The Runaway Schooner 1866 | 77 |
The Fosdyk Saga and Other Theories 1872 | 85 |
Well Meet Again 1916 | 133 |
Faces in the Water 1924 | 141 |
Murder on the Oneida? 1924 | 149 |
Rescued in a Sandwich Box 1940 | 155 |
The Yachts in Errol Flynns Life and Death | 163 |
The Leopoldsville Disaster 1944 | 166 |
A Ghost of Diminishing Returns 1957 | 180 |
Lucette and the Turtle 1972 | 193 |
Gone with the Wind 1878 | 91 |
The Haunted Light House 1871 1885 | 98 |
That Intrepid Hero 1899 | 106 |
Slightly Overdue? 1890 | 113 |
The New England Titanic 1898 | 119 |
Joshua Slocum Almost Meets Christopher | 127 |
Natalie Woods Not So Splendid Death 1981 | 206 |
Sailings Saddest Vagabond 195785 | 219 |
64 | 230 |
Ant on Deck 1992 | 233 |
Scrapcraft 2003 | 246 |
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Sailing's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over nine ... John Harding Limited preview - 2016 |
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Common terms and phrases
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