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A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California

A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California

by Anthony Dalton
A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California
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A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California

A Long, Dangerous Coastline: Shipwreck Tales from Alaska to California

by Anthony Dalton

Overview

On September 8, 1923, seven US Navy destroyers rammed into jagged rocks on the California coast. Twenty-three sailors died that night. Five years earlier, the Canadian Pacific passenger ship Princess Sophia steamed into Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska's Lynn Canal. When she sank, she took 353 people to their deaths. From San Francisco's fog-bound Golden Gate to the stormy Inside Passage of British Columbia and Alaska, the magnificent west coast of North America has taken a deadly toll. Here are the dramatic tales of ships that met their end on this treacherous coastline—including Princess Sophia, Benevolence, Queen of the North and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781926613734
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 09/01/2010
Series: Amazing Stories Series
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anthony Dalton is the author of numerous books on maritime history including The Graveyard of the Pacific, The Fur-Trade Fleet, Alone against the Arctic, and Sir John Franklin. He is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and is past-president of the Canadian Authors Association. He lives in Tsawwassen, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Prologue 7

Introduction 10

Chapter 1 On Anacapa's Foggy Shores 12

Chapter 2 Lost on St. George's Reef Brother Jonathan 19

Chapter 3 Alaskan's Last Voyage 28

Chapter 4 Aground in Alaska Eliza Anderson 35

Chapter 5 City of Rio de Janeiro: Death at the Golden Gate 44

Chapter 6 Islander and the Iceberg 53

Chapter 7 Columbia: Speed Kills 60

Chapter 8 Star of Bengal: Adrift on Coronation Island 66

Chapter 9 Final Storm Francis H. Leggett's 73

Chapter 10 Clash with a Vanderbilt Princess Sophia's 80

Chapter 11 The Honda Point Fiasco 91

Chapter 12 The End of Ohioan's Career 99

Chapter 13 Benevolence toward Mary Luckenbach 105

Chapter 14 The Night a Queen Died 112

Epilogue 121

Selected Bibliography 123

Index 125

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