Tag: Wreck

Free Download Andrew C. A. Jampoler, Chris Monteiro (Narrator), "Hard Aground: The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy"
English | ASIN: B0CQD8G2X1 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:42:00 | 275 MB
Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy’s strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War.
The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet.

Free Download Simon Leys, "Wreck of the Batavia"
English | 2005 | pages: 134 | ISBN: 1843545810, 1560258217 | PDF | 12,3 mb
In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the western coast of the Australian continent. Most of the nearly three hundred men, women and children on board escaped from drowning only to become victims of a psychopath who, with the help of a dozen followers, organized a methodical massacre of this hapless community.

Free Download Kevin Todd, "The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard"
English | ISBN: 1856359816 | 2013 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Neva sailed from Cork on January 8,1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On May 13, 1835 she sank with the loss of 224 lives. The authors have comprehensively researched sources in Ireland, Australia, and the UK to reconstruct in fascinating detail the stories of these women. Most perished beneath the ocean waves, but for others the journey from their poverty stricken and criminal pasts continued towards hope of freedom and prosperity on the far side of the world.

Free Download Wreck of the Isabella by David Miller
English | January 31st, 2020 | ISBN: 1557507686 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 7.56 MB
The story of the wreck of the British merchant brig Isabella on the Falkland Islands in 1812, the rescue of whose passengers was complicated by the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, telling of the adventures which befell citizens of both countries before the passengers were restored to their native shore.