Seafaring Lore and Legend"A valuable and lively resource. Jeans sorts truth from fiction with a sure hand and does full justice to both."—Peter Stanford, President Emeritus, National Maritime Historical Society “A veritable sourcebook of nautical history, beliefs, and heritage. Every true mariner will get lost in this book.”—Boating Seafaring Lore and Legend is a storehouse of wonders for those who love the sea. From Noah’s Ark to Thor Heyerdahl’s raft, from Atlantis to the Northwest Passage, author Peter Jeans scours the ages and the seven seas for fanciful, inspiring, and bizarre tales of sea monsters, ghost ships, lost continents, castaways, pirates, explorers, superstitions, and customs. Discover the surprising truths behind:
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... Mutiny ◇ HMS Bounty Mutiny ◇ HMS Hermione Mutiny ◇ Spithead and the Nore Mutiny ◇ The Press Gang 10. Big Ships and Battles RMS Titanic ◇ HMS Ark Royal ◇ RMS Queen Mary ◇ HMS Dreadnought ◇ The Spanish Armada ◇ The Battle of ...
... mutiny on HMS Hermione. Consequently, I am indeed grateful to those of my family and friends who, re- sponding wholeheartedly to my cries of distress, volunteered some dozens more examples that were distinctly pertinent. These helpful ...
... mutinies, and wartime engagements of historical times: the wreck and subsequent mutiny of the Batavia, for example, and the blood-soaked uproar that destroyed HMS Hermione; the ill-fated Spanish Armada; the Battle ofJutland, and that of ...
... mutiny and the wholesale slaughter of passengers that followed the disastrous wrecking of the ship on the Abrolhos Islands, northwest of Geraldton on the central West Australian coast. The Gilt Dragon lost her prodigious cargo of gold ...
... Mutiny, chapter 9. PORTUNUS. “The king has theprerogative ofappointingports and havens, or such places only for persons and merchandise to pass into and out ofthe realm, as he in his wisdom sees proper.” SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, C ...
Contents
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3 Legendary Voyages | 43 |
4 Sea Quests of Old | 64 |
5 Maritime History | 85 |
6 Nautical Custom | 95 |
7 Life at Sea | 104 |
12 Navigable Waters | 206 |
13 Castaways and Survivors | 214 |
14 At Odds with the Law | 227 |
15 Sea Fancies | 246 |
16 Myth and Mystery | 254 |
17 Sea Monsters | 276 |
18 Wraiths of the Sea | 295 |
19 Superstition and Belief | 304 |
8 The Captain and His Ship | 134 |
9 A Murmuring of Men | 161 |
10 Big Ships and Battles | 176 |
11 Death and Disaster | 192 |
Sources and Notes | 329 |
Select Bibliography | 350 |
Index | 362 |