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Yarmouth Castle Burning
The Deadliest Passenger Ship Disaster Off the Coast of the United States Since 1934
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Schiffer Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 2RLLP7W
EAN: 9780764369872
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Beschreibung
Eighty-four passengers and two crew died in the early-morning hours of November 13, 1965, when the cruise liner SS Yarmouth Castle. caught fire and sank near Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas. Four others would die later from their injuries. Her total loss marks the deadliest passenger ship disaster off the coast of the United States since the burning of the liner SS Morro Castle. off New Jersey in 1934. The survival of over 450 people from the inferno was nothing short of a miracle. The subsequent accident investigation and voluminous press coverage exposed the cavalier operational practices of cruise lines at the time and eventually changed US and international standards for the construction and operations of passenger ships. Based on the authors' collection of firsthand narratives from survivors and their families, thousands of pages of testimony from the United States Coast Guard accident investigation, and contemporaneous press coverage, the book is primarily the story of the night the Castle. burned and, secondarily, the legal and regulatory aftermath of the disaster.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Randall Peffer
- Eric Takakjian
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224