Maritime Disaster

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    • Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
    • By: Rachel Slade
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099 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 Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,268 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm
    • By: Alvin Moscow
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was en route to New York from Italy....

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    • The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
    • By: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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.

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    • By: John Valliant
    • Narrated by: Terrence Aselford
    • Length: 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • 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....

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    • A Human History of the Oceans
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 41 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, David Abulafia's new book guides listeners along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history....

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    • Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
    • By: Jared Knott
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way....

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • The World's Worst Maritime Disasters
    • By: Jonathan Eyers
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
    • By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
    • Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 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....

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    • Survival, Sacrifice and Salvation: A Historical Maritime Adventure of Resilience and Unwavering Courage on an Isolated Island
    • By: Wilbur K Sarvis
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A historical adventure book set on a small, isolated island during the early nineteenth century."Pacific Shipwreck" is a gripping tale of survival,...

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    • By: Holly Copella
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • A cruise ship attack turns six survivors into overnight celebrities after they take credit for the heroic act of a stowaway who died saving them. ...

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    • By: Julian S. Corbett
    • Narrated by: Barker McLaurin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1918) is one of his most famous works....

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    • The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 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"....

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    • The Ship That Changed the World
    • By: Peter Moore
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Endeavour is the story of a ship, an idea, and a way of looking at the world. It is grounded in the Enlightenment, an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed....

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    • Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
    • By: James Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Kevin F. McMurray
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
    • By: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • 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.

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    • A Spine-Chilling Maritime Chronicle from the Mid-19th to Early 20th Century Along America's Treacherous Northeastern Shores
    • By: Russell Evans
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A Historical Nonfiction book set in Cape Cod, New England during the mid-19th to early 20th century. *Tragic Shipwrecks of Cape Cod* whisks readers...

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    • The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
    • By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • 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....

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