كتاب
The miracle of the Kent: a tale of courage, fire, and faith
| العنوان: | The miracle of the Kent: a tale of courage, fire, and faith |
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| المؤلفون: | Tracy, Nicholas, 1944- |
| بيانات النشر: | Yardley, Penn. : Hove : Westholme ; Roundhouse [distributor], 2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| وصف مادي: | 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Edward Kent (Ship) -- History., Cambria (Ship) -- History., Search and rescue operations -- Biscay, Bay of (France and Spain) -- History -- 19th century., Ships -- Fires and fire prevention -- Biscay, Bay of (France and Spain) -- History -- 19th century. |
| الوصف: | "The first modern account of the most spectacular rescue in history. In 1825, the Kent, an East Indiaman, set sail for India with a crew and nearly 600 passengers, mostly men of the 31st Regiment and their families. Reaching the Bay of Biscay north of Spain, the ship was slammed by a ferocious gale, and while a sailor was inspecting the hold for damage, his lantern ignited a cask of spirits. A fire quickly erupted, and even with the desperate expedient of opening hatches and flooding the ship with seawater, the fire burned out of control. As night wore on, the ship became an inferno, with the flames moving toward stores of gunpowder. At this point, everyone on board knew that they would perish, and they began preparing for their ghastly deaths. Despite the raging tempest a sailor climbed to the top of the mast one last time and--miraculously--a sail appeared on the horizon. It was the Cambria, a small brig carrying a crew and twenty Cornish miners on their way to Mexico where they planned to explore abandoned Spanish mines. The Cambria's captain spied the burning Kent and through determination and dogged seamanship, the little brig closed the doomed vessel. Launching their boats in towering seas, the Kent's and the Cambria's crews were able to transfer nearly all of the children, women, and men to the brig before the Kent exploded. Dangerously overloaded, the Cambria made landfall three days later. The daring rescue quickly became a sensation around the world, with the event being hailed as proof of divine intervention."--Jacket. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | A letter to a friend -- Fitting out -- Departure -- The fatal spark -- Cambria -- Courage, faith, and fire -- Abandoned -- Caroline -- Landfall -- Home -- A story for the ages -- Glossary. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn228364063 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-59416-072-1 1-59416-072-4 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011795492.6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9781594160721 1594160724 |
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