Sailors to the End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailors to the End write by Gregory A. Freeman. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Sailors to the End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb on his plane exploded, causing a chain reaction with other bombs on surrounding planes. The crew struggled for days to extinguish the fires, but, in the end, the tragedy took the lives of 134 men. For thirty-five years, the terrible loss of life has been blamed on the sailors themselves, but this meticulously documented history shows that they were truly the victims and heroes.
Off the Deep End
Off the Deep End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Off the Deep End write by Nic Compton. This book was released on 2017-09-21. Off the Deep End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.
Sea of Sharks
Sea of Sharks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sea of Sharks write by Elmer J Renner. This book was released on 2013-12-15. Sea of Sharks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.
Sky Sailors
Sky Sailors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sky Sailors write by David L. Bristow. This book was released on 2014-05-13. Sky Sailors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.
A Sailor's Logbook
A Sailor's Logbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sailor's Logbook write by Mark L. Thompson. This book was released on 1999. A Sailor's Logbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes.
