Heroes Of The Sea Stories From The Atlantic Blue Robert C Parsons by Robert C. Parsons 9781771175616, 1771175613 instant download after payment.

“Hope dies hard with a sailor.” — W. B. Cullen, mate of theRoanoke, 1909
Globe and Mailbestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories of high-seas adventure! Set mainly along the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1800s and 1900s, these are true stories of men and women who faced the deadly Atlantic Ocean—and won.
Featuring:
Ann Harvey of Isle aux Morts, a teenaged girl who helped rescue 160 passengers of the doomed brigDispatchin 1828
George Lake of Fortune, captain of the schoonerGeorge Ewart, who narrowly escaped death when an iron steamer smashed into his vessel off the coast of Spain in 1917
Captain Frank Poole of Belleoram and crew of the schoonerDorothy P. Sarty, who in 1954 were shipwrecked and rowed twenty-five miles to shore in a lifeboat . . . and even refused a lift from a passing coal carrier
Captain Arthur Jackman of Renews and crew of thePlover, who in 1890 were at death’s door after the sinking of their steamship but were rescued in the nick of time
Henry Taylor of Newfoundland, captain of the barqueConstance, who in 1884 was awarded by the Italian Admiralty for rescuing three Italian harbour pilots
The forty-six men and seventeen women who miraculously escaped the wreck of the steamerCapuletafter it went aground at St. Shotts in 1896
. . . and many more!