Shipwrecks of the California Coast epub torrent

Shipwrecks of the California Coast: Wood to Iron, Sail to Steam (Disaster)

By Michael D. White

Published by Arcadia Publishing in 2014-Epub

Description

More than two thousand ships have been lost along California’s
840 miles of coastline—Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners.
Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The City of
Rio de Janeiro, bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the
fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to
watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from San
Francisco to San Diego, crashed into the rocks at Honda Point on the
treacherous Santa Barbara County coast, killing 23 sailors in one of the
military’s worst peacetime losses. Join author Michael D. White as he navigates
the shoals of shipping mishaps with both salvage stories and elegies to the
departed