Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances  
Vanishings and Undiscovered Shipwrecks
Author(s): Richard M Jones
Published by Pen and Sword
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ISBN: 9781399046237
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When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have never been found, both famous and forgotten cases that have left an outward ripple of tragedy and mystique.

Most people have heard of the Mary Celeste crew vanishing, but how many knew that this was not the last case of an entire crew going missing? What about the three Scottish lighthouse keepers who were never seen again? Or the world famous aviation pioneers who took flight to never return?

This book will tell you that MH370 was not the first airliner to disappear over the sea, nor was the Bermuda Triangle actually the cause of so many disappearing ships. How could six airplanes disappear in one day? Why did a ship with over 300 people on board not send a single distress call? Which ships vanished and then later messages in a bottle suddenly turn up, not just once but two separate shipwrecks?

Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances will cover all these and more as we reveal the stories of some of the most fascinating incidents above and below the waves.
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When you think of something being lost at sea, you imagine a ship sinking gracefully, the survivors being rescued or a tragedy being caught on camera. But what if a ship is lost at sea without trace? What if an aircraft takes off on a routine flight and is never seen again? This book details over fifty of the most mysterious vanishings, ships that have made headlines but have never been found, both famous and forgotten cases that have left an outward ripple of tragedy and mystique.

Most people have heard of the Mary Celeste crew vanishing, but how many knew that this was not the last case of an entire crew going missing? What about the three Scottish lighthouse keepers who were never seen again? Or the world famous aviation pioneers who took flight to never return?

This book will tell you that MH370 was not the first airliner to disappear over the sea, nor was the Bermuda Triangle actually the cause of so many disappearing ships. How could six airplanes disappear in one day? Why did a ship with over 300 people on board not send a single distress call? Which ships vanished and then later messages in a bottle suddenly turn up, not just once but two separate shipwrecks?

Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances will cover all these and more as we reveal the stories of some of the most fascinating incidents above and below the waves.
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Missing
    • Chapter 1 Atlantis – A Continent Lost?
    • Chapter 2 Cleopatra’s Needle
    • Chapter 3 The Mary Celeste
    • Chapter 4 The Lighthouse
    • Chapter 5 Admiral Wilcox USN
    • Chapter 6 The Joyita
    • Chapter 7 High Aim 6
    • Chapter 8 Kaz II
    • Chapter 9 Jian Seng
    • Chapter 10 The Bizarre – Lego, Cigarettes … and Ducks
  • Part II: Warships
    • Chapter 11 Revenge
    • Chapter 12 Bonhomme Richard
    • Chapter 13 USS Cyclops
    • Chapter 14 HMS Courageous
    • Chapter 15 HMS Glorious
    • Chapter 16 HMS Barham
    • Chapter 17 HMS Kelly
    • Chapter 18 USS Oklahoma
    • Chapter 19 F4
  • Part III: Submarines
    • Chapter 20 Turtle
    • Chapter 21 X5
    • Chapter 22 Orzel
    • Chapter 23 U-47
    • Chapter 24 U-110
    • Chapter 25 Surcouf
  • Part IV: Merchant Ships
    • Chapter 26 Royal Merchant
    • Chapter 27 General Grant
    • Chapter 28 Carroll A. Deering
    • Chapter 29 Baychimo
    • Chapter 30 Rawalpindi
    • Chapter 31 Jervis Bay and San Demetrio
    • Chapter 32 Marine Sulphur Queen
    • Chapter 33 The Triple Trawler Tragedy
    • Chapter 34 Berge Vanga and Berge Istra
    • Chapter 35 Marques
    • Chapter 36 Andrea Gail
    • Chapter 37 München
  • Part V: Passenger Ships
    • Chapter 38 Arctic
    • Chapter 39 Pacific
    • Chapter 40 Naronic
    • Chapter 41 Waratah
    • Chapter 42 Californian
    • Chapter 43 Hans Hedtoft
    • Chapter 44 Lakonia
    • Chapter 45 Lyubov Orlova
  • Part VI: Aircraft
    • Chapter 46 Italia and the death of Amundsen
    • Chapter 47 Amelia Earhart
    • Chapter 48 Amy Johnson
    • Chapter 49 L-8
    • Chapter 50 Leslie Howard
    • Chapter 51 Glenn Miller
    • Chapter 52 Flight 19
    • Chapter 53 Flying Tiger Flight 739
    • Chapter 54 MH370
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgements
  • Plates
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