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SOS Men Against the Sea is a superbly dramatized chronicle of 29 ships the loss of which history, by and large, passed by. Few have ever heard of the Cospatrick, a fully rigged ship destroyed by fire off the Cape of Good Hope in 1874 with the loss of 400 lives, or the steamer Utopia which skewered itself on the ram-bow of a warship in Gibraltar Bay and sank in five minutes taking 500 souls with it. A similar loss of life occurred when the Russian cruise liner Admiral Nakimov collided with a bulk carrier in the Black Sea in 1986. There was no loss of life when the cruise liner Oceanis sank off the coast of Transkei, thanks to the actions of a few non-seamen who displayed the true spirit of the Birkenhead. A total of 5,683 lives were lost when these ships went down. This book is their epitaph.
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This book has proved to be one of the most popular we have published. Bernard Edwards has an enviable talent for taking dull archive material and turning it into the most enthralling stories of actual events that have overtaken ships of all sizes that have challenged the unpredictable fury of the oceans over the last century. And the message is still as clear today as it was when the disasters recounted in SOS - Men Against the Sea occured: No ship that is inadequately manned or built by owners more interested in cutting costs than the safety of their crews has any hope of surviving the savagery of the elements.
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- PublisherBrick Tower Press (UK)
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1899694005
- ISBN 13 9781899694006
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages206
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