Black Rock and blue water : the great hurricane of October 1867 and the wreck of the Royal Mail Ship Rhone / Andrew C.A. Jampoler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jampoler, Andrew C. A., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhone (Ship).

Shipwrecks--British Virgin Islands.

Shipwrecks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands' population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters.Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside of the hurricane and nearly blinded by rain and spray, Rhone drove aground on Black Rock, in the shallows off Salt Island, shoved

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Millwall Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company; 2. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; 3. Royal Mail Ship Rhone; 4. Riding the Rhone; 5. Safety at Sea; 6. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Operation; 7. The Virgin Islands; 8. The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867; 9. ""Sudden and Imminent Peril""; 10. The Desperate Flight of Rhone and Conway; 11. Shipwreck on Black Rock; 12. The Islands after the Hurricane; 13. Jeremiah Murphy's Salvage Operations; 14. Rhone Today; Notes; Selected Bibliography; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2013).

Other Format:

Print version: Jampoler, Andrew C. A., 1942- Black Rock and blue water

ISBN:

0-87021-040-8

OCLC:

857800211