In this book Parsons provides a capsule history of this typical working class town and its people, their lives and accomplishments.

Survive the Savage Sea: Tales from our Ocean Heritage

History

Parsons, Robert Charles

Parsons, Robert C.

Americas

Creative Book Pub

Includes in the scores of unique, mysterious and strange shipwrecks are stores from Lunenburg, Halifax, Shelburne, Canso, Sydney, Yarmouth and many more. Arranged cronologically, these tales of adventure range from 1873 through to the 1990s. Robert Parsons relates the dangers and hardships endured by Nova Scotia schooner men and by those who found themselves wrecked along the Nova Scotian shores where trecherous seas in a high-rish occupation tested the courage, wit and endurance of seamen. But theirs was an idomitable will to survive as related in this book of ships, wrecks and sailors.

In Peril On The Sea Nova Scotian Shipwrecks

Pottersfield Press

Here are over sixty stories of piracy, fire, explosions, disappearances, rum running, shipboard mutiny and murder. There are also stories of collisions with whales, icebergs and other ships, as well as wrecks on rocks, islands and sand bars. Vessels, large and small, were struck by lightning, shelled or torpedoed by enemy vessels, crushed by Arctic ice, and even swallowed up whole by unexpected intense gales and hurricanes. These true tales of shipwrecks delve into strange and curious marine disasters. The setting, primarily the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, was the main trading route for passenger steamers and treading schooners plying their way to and from Europe and also the site of the much frequented fishing grounds. It is said to be the "stormiest ocean on earth." The time range in Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster is one hundred years, between the 1850s and the 1950s but the stories themselves are timeless.

Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Truth is stranger than fiction. This old adage certainly applies to the schooners and steamers of Newfoundland and Labrador, and to the men that sailed them. Countless ships and sailors came to grief in Newfoundland and Labrador waters in the days before long-range forecasting and reliable navigational instruments. Anything that could conceivably have happened to a ship has happened along the shores of Canada?s most easterly province. And more than likely it has been included in this volume of fifty-three tales of the sea, which span every coastline and range from the 1800s to the modern day.

Collision at Dawn: And Other Thrilling Stories of the Sea

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Survive the Savage Sea: Tales from our Ocean Heritage

In Peril On The Sea Nova Scotian Shipwrecks

Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster

Collision at Dawn: And Other Thrilling Stories of the Sea