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Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-101540247457
ISBN-139781540247452
eBay Product ID (ePID)9057278226
Product Key Features
Book TitleShipwrecks of Cape Cod : Stories of Tragedy and Triumph
Number of Pages194 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicUnited States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Maritime History & Piracy
GenreTransportation, History
AuthorDon Wilding
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23/eng/20220328
Dewey Decimal910.452
SynopsisFrom the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod's outer beach--often referred to as the Graveyard of Ships--saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew's cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.