Sailing's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary but True Stories from Over Three Centuries
This collection of true tales from the seven seas is packed with strange ships and sailing trips, death-defying journeys in freak weather, hair-raising encounters with pirates and sea monsters, and a bounty of high-seas oddities spanning three centuries.
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This collection of true tales from the seven seas is packed with strange ships and sailing trips, death-defying journeys in freak weather, hair-raising encounters with pirates and sea monsters, and a bounty of high-seas oddities spanning three centuries.
A Medieval Murder Mystery (1120)1Eustace the Piratical Monk (1217)4Shakespeare's Temperatuous Sea Venture (1609)7The Ship of Air (1647)9The Flying Dutchman (1680-1959)12The Eddystone Light (1703 & 1755)16Two Gay Buccaneers (1700s)19The Real Robinson Crusoe (1704)22The Ghostly Lady of Goodwin Sands (1748)24The Block Island Phantom (1752)27The Ramillies and the Jebba (1760 & 1907)29Octavius and the Ice Men (1774)32'Toll for the Brave!' (1782)33'I Put a Message in a Bottle ...' (1784-1999)36Captain Bligh's Amazing Journey (1789)38A Constellation of Ghosts (1797-1999)41Fatal Figurehead (1800s)44'Massacred by Savages' (1801)45William Wordsworth's Deep Distress (1804)48The Raft of the Medusa (1816)51Dying for a Bite (1826)54The Quixote (1831)56Amazing Grace (1838)58Power and the President (1841)60Hard Rations: Death in the Arctic (1846)61Magical Mystery Tour (1854)64Tragedy on Ice (1855)66Not Just a Pretty Face (1857)68A Riveting Yarn (1857)71There's Gold in That Thar Ship, Look You! (1859)74The Runaway Schooner (1866)77The Empress and the Gazelle (1870)79The Mary Celeste (1872)82The Fosdyk Saga and Other Theories (1872)85'Drowning in the Drink' (1872)89Gone with the Wind! (1878)91The Mysterious Loss of the Atalanta (1879)93Hoax! (1880)95The Haunted (Light) House (1871 & 1885)98Ghostly Galleon's Reach (1878)100The Fisherman who Lost his Fingers (1883)103'That Intrepid Hero' (1899)106The 'Custom of the Sea' (1884)109Slightly Overdue? (1890)113When Britannia Ruled the Waves (1890s)114Galleon in the Mist (1891)117The New England 'Titanic' (1898)119The Phantom Boat (1900)122A 'Most Brutal Thing' (1904)124Joshua Slocum (Almost) Meets Christopher Columbus (1909)127Great Lakes Disaster (1913)129Dulcibella and The Riddle of the Sands (1916)131We'll Meet Again (1916)133The Haunted Sub (1916)135The Mystery Ship of Diamond Shoals (1920)138Faces in the Water (1924)141Sailing's Serial Killer? (1920s)142'Shingled Girl Beats German' (1920s)146Murder on the Oneida? (1924)149Hollywood's Yacht (1935)152Rescued in a Sandwich Box (1940)155Dunkirk's Little Ena (1940)158The Old Men of the Sea (1942)160The Yachts in Errol Flynn's Life (and Death) (1942 & 1970s)163The Leopoldsville Disaster (1944)166Orwell and the Whirlpool (1947)168Simon the Cat and the 'Yangtze Incident' (1949)171Adrian Hayter's Mysterious Light (1950s)174Hammond Innes's Inspiration (1956)176Mystery Mass in the Sargasso Sea (1956)178A Ghost of Diminishing Returns (1957)180More Dead Than Alive (1957)181The Ghosts of a Queen (1966)183Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe (1969)185Follow That Girl! (1971)189The Prime Minister's Not for Turning (1971)191Lucette and the Turtle (1972)193Adrift in a Dinghy for 117 Days (1973)196The Bigger They Come (1975)198The Triple Clanger (1978)200Fastnet Disaster (1979)203Natalie Wood's (Not So) Splendid Death (1981)206Ordeal by Raft (1982)209Dennis Wilson's Bad Vibrations (1983)212Saved by Dolphins (1985)214Simon le Bon - Just a Water Baby (1985)216Sailing's Saddest Vagabond (1957-85)219Hitler's Yacht (1989)221G'day There! (1988)224Back from the Dead (1989)227Maxwell: The Mossad Connection (1991)230Ant on Deck (1992)233The Tragic Louise Longo (1994)236Help Us or We'll Die! (1998)238'Captain Calamity' Strikes (Yet) Again (2000)241Overboard at the Horn! (2002)243Scrapcraft (2003)246Fivi Midur! (Icelandic for 'sorry!') (2002 & 2003)248Row, Row, Row Your Boat! (2003)250'Like the Wings of a Bird' (2004)252The Ecological Mermaid (2004)255
