The Ghost Ships Of Archangel

Author : William Geroux
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525557470

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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.

Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547015697

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The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton Pdf

The Ghost Ship is a collection of stories by Richard Barham Middleton. Contents: The Ghost Ship, A Drama of Youth, The New Boy, On the Birghton Road, A Tragedy in Little, Shepherd's Boy, The Story of a Book and many more.

Author : Megan Cooley Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781496673336

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The Flying Dutchman by Megan Cooley Peterson Pdf

The ghost ship The Flying Dutchman has been spotted around the world for centuries. According to legend, this spooky ship is doomed to roam the seas forever, unable to make port. The ship is thought to be a bad omen for anyone who encounters it. Dating back to the 1600s, alleged sightings of the legendary ghost ship continue to this day.

Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251122561

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The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton Pdf

Author : Kevin Hile
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737740868

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Ghost Ships by Kevin Hile Pdf

The sea has long provided humankind with wonder, and delightful or demented imaginations along with it. This book provides eyewitness accounts, paired with alternative explanations, to explore legends surrounding the mysterious appearances of ghost ships.

Author : Sharon Lee,Steve Miller
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618248213

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Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee,Steve Miller Pdf

The new novel in the Liaden Universe® series. Over a quarter million copies sold in this series to-date! Space ships, action, adventure¾all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and family saga¾make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, from romance to military SF lovers alike. Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot¾and pure maverick. Her mom is a renowned Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. Whatever, thinks Theo. She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit. But after being selected to train with the best-of-the-best at the pilot academy, she figures she can leave behind those gawky, misfit days of teenage angst that made life so complicated before! But for Theo, life is about to get even MORE complicated¾and deadlier still. For even though shes survived the Academy and become one of the best pilots in the galaxy, the past is about to blast her with gale-force winds. Theo can run, but she cant hide. Her destiny as master pilot and leader of a powerful Liaden clan calls, and there are LOTS of enemies who will try to make sure shes quite dead before she has the chance to make an answer. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Wes Oleszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015071187689

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Ghost Ships, Gales and Forgotten Tales by Wes Oleszewski Pdf

The shore-bound Great Lakes observer may be lucky enough to see the silhouette of one of the giant modern oreboats snailing upon the distant horizon. The courses and routes that these contemporary monsters follow have been well traveled by countless mariners for more than a century and a half. In the mid 1800s, it was often difficult to look toward the lakes from any single spot and see less than a half dozen distant boats at any time. Each of these vessels had a crew and each crewperson had a job to do and sometimes while just doing their jobs, these ordinary people found themselves cast into adventures that deserve telling. This book will attempt to do just that.

Author : C. R. Turner
Publisher : Chris Turner
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648381365

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The Ghost Ship by C. R. Turner Pdf

For years, a monolithic Timberwolf-class starship has been hidden, but now it’s about to reappear. Together with his girlfriend Sam and the rest of the Striker Force Raptor team, Joel has been assigned to retrieve this ghost ship and return it to its rightful owners. But what seems like an exhilarating adventure takes a dangerous turn amid chance encounters with black holes and hidden planets. When the team find the crew of the ghost ship dead with no discernible cause, they must figure out what happened—and if they themselves are at risk. In this quest for answers, Joel is about to face his worst nightmare. On this, his and Sam’s thirteenth mission with Striker Force Raptor, has their luck finally run out?

Author : Andrene Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1198231779

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The Ghost Ship by Andrene Low Pdf

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985725177

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The Mary Celeste and SS Baychimo by Charles River Charles River Editors Pdf

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the ships *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading People love mysteries, which is a good thing since history is so replete with them. This is especially true among seafaring people, and of all the mysteries of the deep, few rise to the level of the Mary Celeste. In many ways, it is a story more suited for an episode of The X-Files than it is for any history book. There is the unlucky ship that began her sailing career under a cloud of bad fortune and accident. Then there is that handsome young captain, a man appearing to be of the highest moral fiber who chose to travel with his wife and young daughter rather than carouse with loose women. His crew was small but faithful, and his First Mate was an old friend. They set sail for Genoa late in 1872 but arrived instead in the history books, lost suddenly to a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. The first indication that anything unusual had happened came on December 5 of that year, when the Mary Celeste was found by another ship, the Dei Gratia, sailing safely and intact but completely devoid of human beings. The bed was unmade and the captain's cabin a bit untidy, but otherwise there was no sign of struggle. Or was there? A sword turned up with spots that some thought must be blood, and there were also mysterious cuts on the ship's railing, but at the same time, the ship's provisions were almost entirely untouched, leading some to theorize pirates attacked the ship and others to believe all of it consisted of normal wear and tear? The mystery might have been forgotten altogether shortly after, but young Arthur Conan Doyle, who would eventually earn fame for his Sherlock Holmes mysteries, helped popularize the Mary Celeste and its mysterious fate with his fictional story "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement." Naturally, as the story spread, so did the rumors and the theories. Some believed the crew mutinied, while others speculated that the boat's own owner had those on board killed. As the decades passed, men turned up claiming to have new information, but nothing definitive was ever confirmed. By the early decades of the 20th century, the fur trade had tapered off some from its heyday in the 19th century, but it still proved profitable enough for hunters to live for months at a time in remote regions of Alaska. Their only contact with the outside world consisted of the company ships that came to buy their furs and bring them supplies. One of these vessels was the steamer Baychimo, a Hudson's Bay Company ship that plied the treacherous waters off Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Siberia for many years, supplying remote outposts of Inuit and Anglo trappers and bringing back their catch of furs. Her sailors were experts at handling Arctic waters, but one year the weather proved too much for them. In October of 1931, the Baychimo was carrying $1 million in furs for the Hudson's Bay Company when it was trapped by early winter pack ice in the Beaufort Sea. Ice is a powerful force of nature that can crush even the strongest of ships, so the captain had no choice but to order his crew of 14 men to unload all equipment essential for their survival and abandon the Baychimo. Nature had other ideas. On November 24, a month into their vigil, the crew had to hide inside their makeshift home as a fierce windstorm howled over the bleak icescape. However, when they could finally emerge into the daylight, they saw their ship had disappeared. The ghost ship continued to be sighted in the region for years afterwards. The Baychimo continued to float in the waters between Alaska and Siberia, mostly in the Beaufort Sea. The latest confirmed report was by some Native Americans in 1969, between Barrow and Icy Cape, almost four decades after it had been lost. It's remarkable that it survived storms, pack ice, and encroaching rust after all that time.

Author : Valerie Martin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307739544

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The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin Pdf

1872: the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste is discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo is intact and there is no sign of struggle, but her crew has disappeared, never to be found. As news of the derelict ghost ship spreads, the Mary Celeste captures imaginations around the world—from a Philadelphia spiritualist medium named Violet Petra to an unknown young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle. In a haunted, death-obsessed age, the Mary Celeste is by turns a provocative mystery, an inspiration to creativity, and the tragic story of a family doomed by the sea. Based on actual events, spanning seas and continents, life and death, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass as truth.

Author : Cristina Montalva
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462877867

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Lore of the Ghost Ship by Cristina Montalva Pdf

LORE of the GHOST SHIP by Cristina Montalva set on the Chilean Archipelago of Chiloe draws on local folk-lore and tradition to create a magical realistic fable with color, action and human depth. The story follows Pancho, a teenage boy, as he tries to come to terms with and understand his mother`s sudden disappearance. One of the ways he does this is to ask his uncle, Mateo, who is well versed in the mythology of the island, about the Ghost Ship, a legendary vessel which haunts the waters around the Archipelago. Mateo narration of the tale is central to the plot, and it is on the basis of this story-telling that Pancho`s final resolution occurs.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Flying Dutchman
ISBN : 0718305825

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The Ghost Ship by Peter Haining Pdf

Author : Brian Jacques
Publisher : Ace
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441011519

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Angel's Command by Brian Jacques Pdf

Brian Jacques, New York Times bestselling author of the Redwall series, brings you a "jam-packed adventure is a swashbuckling take of pirates on the high seas" (Detroit Free Press). Ben and his black labrador, castaways from the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman, swore never to go to sea again. But fate casts them adrift once more on a French pirate ship, with two villainous sea captains--and a ghost--in pursuit.

Author : Paul Regnier
Publisher : Space Drifters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1683700821

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The Ghost Ship: Volume 3 by Paul Regnier Pdf

There is only one way forward for Glint. He and his crew undertake a risky mission to steal a crystalline energy source--the only object capable of saving Jasette's planet--from the immense spaceship of legend known as the ghost ship. If they're lucky, they'll escape with their lives . . . and Glint won't lose the woman he loves. The ghost ship is run by a nanotech kitten and an army of spider bots with zero tolerance for theft. Soon they are hot on the trail of Glint and his crew. Glint uses every piloting trick in the book to find safe haven but to no avail. The ghost ship tracks them from every space bar to remote outpost, getting closer at each turn. To make matters worse, Mar Mar the Unthinkable, the galaxy's most powerful gangster, wants revenge for Glint's double cross during their last encounter. Mar Mar sends a legion of fembots and bounty hunters to capture him dead or alive. With pursuers closing in, Glint and his crew must work together to survive their greatest threat and save Jasette's planet before it's too late.