Maritime Disaster

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    • The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
    • Written by: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2006-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....

    Price: $17.12 or 1 Credit

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    • The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
    • Written by: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-09
    • Language: English
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    • On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death.

    Price: $39.46 or 1 Credit

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    • Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion
    • Written by: T. Joseph Scanlon
    • Narrated by: Braden Wright
    • Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2024-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11.

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    • Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
    • Written by: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
    • Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

    Price: $31.26 or 1 Credit

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    • Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
    • Written by: Rachel Slade
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....

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    • The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
    • Written by: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2024-11-04
    • Language: English
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    • Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, diaries, and interviews with their family members, award-winning journalist Andrew Wilson brings to life a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic.

    Price: $51.27 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: John Valliant
    • Narrated by: Terrence Aselford
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • John Valliant's essay about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser, during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit. The disaster was the Atlantic’s worst sailing accident in over forty years....

    Price: $8.03 or 1 Credit

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    • The Perfect Storm and an Accidental Sailor
    • Written by: Nelson Simon
    • Narrated by: Nelson Simon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Soul of the Hurricane is the harrowing true story of an inexperienced crew member on a ship that sailed into the perfect storm....

    Price: $20.04 or 1 Credit

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    • The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
    • Written by: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....

    Price: $26.21 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Kevin F. McMurray
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-03
    • Language: English
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    • On May 29, 1914, after a collision in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Empress of Ireland sank in minutes, taking 1,012 passengers and crew to their deaths. Now, in Dark Descent, acclaimed author and diver Kevin McMurray revives the story of this forgotten maritime catastrophe....

    Price: $23.76 or 1 Credit

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    • The World's Worst Maritime Disasters
    • Written by: Jonathan Eyers
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-02
    • Language: English
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    • Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, but in terms of loss of life that catastrophe doesn't even figure as one of the 50 worst maritime disasters of the last three hundred years....

    Price: $26.40 or 1 Credit

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    • The Most Complete Story Ever Told
    • Written by: Matthew Vollbrecht
    • Narrated by: James Michael Shetler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook attempts to answer as many of those questions as possible through an informal, narrative style. It focuses on the overall experience and the feelings and emotions of the people going through it rather than just on facts and figures....

    Price: $25.00 or 1 Credit

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    • A Doomed Ship, a Violent Storm, and New England's Worst Maritime Disaster
    • Written by: J. North Conway
    • Narrated by: Gary Bennett
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as “New England’s Titanic”....

    Price: $27.22 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Rick Foucheux
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • On October 29, 1991, the 70-foot longliner Andrea Gail, on day 40 of an extended commercial swordfishing trip, was lost in a convergence of three powerful storms off Canada’s Grand Banks....

    Price: $6.01 or 1 Credit

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    • The History of New York City's Deadliest Maritime Disaster
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2017-02-08
    • Language: English
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    • Today the sinking of the PS General Slocum is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten....

    Price: $9.20 or 1 Credit

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    • The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in American History
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Ronald Printz
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2015-04-03
    • Language: English
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    • A ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten....

    Price: $9.20 or 1 Credit

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    • Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
    • Written by: James Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the best-selling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating...gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett - a US Navy destroyer....

    Price: $25.24 or 1 Credit

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    • The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm
    • Written by: Alvin Moscow
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2016-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was en route to New York from Italy....

    Price: $36.15 or 1 Credit

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