La Porte County Public Library System

Describes the history of shipwrecks, famous wrecks, causes, navigation and rescue techniques, and underwater archeology and the exploration of wrecks.

A collection of true stories about pirates and shipwrecks includes accounts of the pirate Barbarossa, adventurer John Franklin, and Betsey shipwreck survivor Daniel Collins. Each story is paired with interesting facts about the setting, industry, and time period.

"On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as 'the prize of all...

Text and cut-away illustrations feature the stories of real-life children who sailed aboard the Titanic on the night of its disaster in the North Atlantic.

Describes the giant ocean liner "Titanic," the events that led up to its sinking in the spring of 1912, and the effects of the disaster on sea travel.

An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history...

This book labels common stories about the "Titanic" as fact or fiction and teaches readers how to tell the difference between truth and rumors.

Provides an account of the sinking of the "Titanic," a reputedly unsinkable ship that went down in the Atlantic on April 10, 1912 after hitting an iceberg, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 people.

Depicts five famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times, the Empress of Ireland, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, the Brittanic, and the Titanic.

Using an introductory setting of a school play, this book describes the way it was for a female cabin attendant on the "Titanic" on its voyage in 1912 when it hit an iceberg.