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| Title: | S O S
: Men Against the Sea |
| Author: | Bernard Edwards |
| ISBN: | 1899694005 : 9781899694006 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x210mm |
| Pages: | 206 |
| Weight: | .235 Kg. |
| Published: | Brick Tower Press - June 1994 |
| List Price: | 4.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Ships & shipping: general interest |
This is a superbly dramatised chronicle of 29 ships the loss of which history, by and large, passed by. Few have ever heard of the Cospatrick, a fully rigged ship destroyed by fire off the Cape of Good Hope in 1874 with the loss of 400 lives, or the steamer Utopia which skewered itself on the ram-bow of a warship in Gibraltar Bay and sank in five minutes taking 500 souls with it. A similar loss of life occurred when the Russian cruise liner Admiral Nakimov collided with a bulk carrier in the Black Sea in 1986. There was no loss of life when the cruise liner Oceanis sank off the coast of Transkei, thanks to the actions of a few non-seamen who displayed the true spirit of the Birkenhead. A total of 5,683 lives were lost when these ships went down. This book is their epitaph.
