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The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle
by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0002117436
- ISBN 13
- 9780002117432
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About This Item
First Edition.
252 p.; ill.; includes Appendices (p. 240-6) and Bibliography (p. 247-52).
Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine exhibits mild dent/bumping to tip and heel of spine and a small bit of minor damage to the edge of page near end of book, but otherwise Fine, being clean, clear, and tightly bound, with no other evidence of wear and endpapers illustrated in blue. Please see listing images for detail of damaged pages and list of illustrations. Dust jacket exhibits some sunning and very minor shelfwear, including small (1cm) closed tears, otherwise Very Good+
From the dust jacket:
In 1884 an editorial in the Daily Spray, a journal circulating in the Asbury Park area of New Jersey, suggested one way for Asbury Park to improve its resort status.
We want a first-class shipwreck. Why ? To make Asbury Park a famous winter resort. There is a very comfortable berth for a big ship between the fishing pier and the Asbury Avenue Pavilion.
She should strike head-on, so that her nose would ram the Baby Parade grandstand, and her tail might hop around even with the end of the pier.
We could accommodate her all winter. Pontoon or suspension bridges could be built from the pier and the pavilion, so that the ship could be used as a casino. We need a spectacular ship.
Fifty years later, almost to the day, the newspaper's demands were fulfilled. This is the story not only of how it happened, but of why.
In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, carrying 316 passengers and 230 officers and crew, caught fire a few hours out of Now York harbour on a return voyage from Havana. The fire spread with terrifying swiftness. Why was a proper alarm never given ? Why did the fire-fighting equipment, such as it was, not work ? Why were lifeboats in short supply and why were the ones that were used defective ? 90 passengers and 35 crew members died that night. Was it an accident ? Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts have written a spell-binding moment by moment account of one of the most spectacular disasters ever to stir the Atlantic Ocean. Interviews with eye-witnesses—survivors, rescuers, investigators—emphasize the human drama of the Morro Castle story, a tale of obvious incompetence, tragedy, heroism, and quite possibly murder. £3.00 net
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE HAVANA: SEPTEMBER 5, 1934
A Likely Suspect
Charade
Rumours of Sabotage
Playing with Fire
Poison
The Storm Rises
A Fatal Evening Who Killed the Captain?
The Smell of Smoke
FIRE AT SEA: SEPTEMBER 8, 1934
Panic
The SOS
Out of Control
Nightmare
The Rescue Armada
Jump!
She's Worth a Fortune to the Town
Abandon Ship
Beached
ON THE BEACH
19 Indictments
20 The Verdict APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
252 p.; ill.; includes Appendices (p. 240-6) and Bibliography (p. 247-52).
Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine exhibits mild dent/bumping to tip and heel of spine and a small bit of minor damage to the edge of page near end of book, but otherwise Fine, being clean, clear, and tightly bound, with no other evidence of wear and endpapers illustrated in blue. Please see listing images for detail of damaged pages and list of illustrations. Dust jacket exhibits some sunning and very minor shelfwear, including small (1cm) closed tears, otherwise Very Good+
From the dust jacket:
In 1884 an editorial in the Daily Spray, a journal circulating in the Asbury Park area of New Jersey, suggested one way for Asbury Park to improve its resort status.
We want a first-class shipwreck. Why ? To make Asbury Park a famous winter resort. There is a very comfortable berth for a big ship between the fishing pier and the Asbury Avenue Pavilion.
She should strike head-on, so that her nose would ram the Baby Parade grandstand, and her tail might hop around even with the end of the pier.
We could accommodate her all winter. Pontoon or suspension bridges could be built from the pier and the pavilion, so that the ship could be used as a casino. We need a spectacular ship.
Fifty years later, almost to the day, the newspaper's demands were fulfilled. This is the story not only of how it happened, but of why.
In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, carrying 316 passengers and 230 officers and crew, caught fire a few hours out of Now York harbour on a return voyage from Havana. The fire spread with terrifying swiftness. Why was a proper alarm never given ? Why did the fire-fighting equipment, such as it was, not work ? Why were lifeboats in short supply and why were the ones that were used defective ? 90 passengers and 35 crew members died that night. Was it an accident ? Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts have written a spell-binding moment by moment account of one of the most spectacular disasters ever to stir the Atlantic Ocean. Interviews with eye-witnesses—survivors, rescuers, investigators—emphasize the human drama of the Morro Castle story, a tale of obvious incompetence, tragedy, heroism, and quite possibly murder. £3.00 net
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE HAVANA: SEPTEMBER 5, 1934
A Likely Suspect
Charade
Rumours of Sabotage
Playing with Fire
Poison
The Storm Rises
A Fatal Evening Who Killed the Captain?
The Smell of Smoke
FIRE AT SEA: SEPTEMBER 8, 1934
Panic
The SOS
Out of Control
Nightmare
The Rescue Armada
Jump!
She's Worth a Fortune to the Town
Abandon Ship
Beached
ON THE BEACH
19 Indictments
20 The Verdict APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- Title
- The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle
- Author
- Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
- Illustrator
- [various]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002117436
- ISBN 13
- 9780002117432
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- unsolved mysteries; Morro Castle (Steamship); boat fire; rescue; tragedy; shipwreck; New Jersey; Coastal waters; American ocean liner; 1934; thirties; disaster; passenger ship; boat; incomptetency trial; arson; heart attack; death of captain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; True Crime; Mystery; Politics, Government, & Law; Survival; History;
- Size
- 22
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