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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the sinking written by passengers *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Captain Herndon pointed to the thinning clouds and predicted that their breaking up portended an end to the storm. He spoke to the men at the pumps; he cheered the men in the bailing lines. He told them he thought the storm was abating, and that if they would just continue to bail until noon, the steamer might be saved. … Though the passengers received the captain’s comments with great cheer, Herndon knew his hope was false. He knew the sea would rise again and the wind would blow with even greater fury. He knew that a ship floating 750 tons of iron with water filling her hold, and more water constantly rushing in, could remain afloat but a short while longer.” – Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck There have been countless numbers of shipwrecks over the course of history, but few have had as great an impact as the sinking of the SS Central America in a hurricane in September 1857. The California Gold Rush was in full swing, state of the art steamer ships were used to transport the discovered gold back east, and the Central America was one of them. On its fateful voyage, the ship was carrying nearly 600 passengers and a huge haul of up to 20 tons of gold worth an estimated $2 million at the time. On the way from Cuba to New York City, the Central America was caught in a Stage 2 hurricane that it never had a chance of knowing about ahead of time. With winds over 100 miles per hour, the hurricane ripped its sails, and the ship started taking on water while struggling to keep its boiler going. These conditions all but doomed the ship, and while over 150 passengers were ferried in lifeboats to another ship for rescue, the intensity of the storm kept the other passengers of the Central America away from salvation. When the ship finally sank, 425 passengers went down with it, and only a handful of survivors were picked up in the ensuing days. The loss of life was a big enough calamity, but the Central America had gone down with so much gold that it scared the American public, which was already beginning to deal with a financial downturn that culminated in the Panic of 1857. This was understandable given that the ship was carrying the modern equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars, and in fact, when 20th century salvage teams located the search and began bringing gold back up to the surface, they found one 80 pound piece that immediately became the most valuable piece of currency in the world. Naturally, lawsuits over the recovered gold sprang up, and the Central America has remained controversial ever since. The Sinking of the SS Central America: The Tragic Story of the Richest Shipwreck in History chronicles the tragic fate of the ship, the tribulations the survivors had to endure in the aftermath of the sinking, and its impact on the Panic of 1857. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the USS Indianapolis like never before, in no time at all.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 11, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 44 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150843896X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1508438960
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.56 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.1 x 9 inches

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B. Wayne Strickland

Engaging story.

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2023

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A very engaging story giving the reader a feeling of being aboard the sinking vessel. Having known about the ship for a long time I felt this was a great rendering of the story.

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Paul A. Guthrie, Jr.

Love the Charles River Editors concept

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015

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Love the Charles River Editors concept. Their execution is sometimes spotty, but always worth the read. Quick peeks at history...if your interest is piqued (sorry), you can look further. This was a well done, piece of personal history. This type of treatment is of particular interest ot me.

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Frank Tainter

Kind of disappointing.

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2023

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After having read "Ship of gold in the Deep Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder and "America's Lost Treasure" by Tommy Thompson, I must say that I was very disappointed in this book. It is a pretty good history of what happened during the sinking, but I was disappointed with the quality of presentation. I had no previous experience with the Charles River Editors and did a little research about them. I think they could improve the quality of their work. However, if potential customers know what to expect, it is their option to do so. It is also slightly over-priced.

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A Constant Reader

A waste of time and money

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019

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A waste of time and money. The writing is adequate, but there really is not enough material here to justify publishing. It is primarily a repackaging of a few very small parts of Gary Kinder's book - hardly anything more.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2020

Chose this rating because the book provided the necessary surface details of the tragedy without dwelling on the emotions of the many mostly female survivors. Even so the spectacle of the raging seas churned by the hurricane and the ill-fated attempts by male passengers to defeat the flooding of the doomed ship over a period of days was graphically portrayed. The location of The Central America and the recovery of its fabulous treasure is not discussed in this book but is well covered in other tomes.

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2015

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Tedious, boring, which says it all.
Only I got out of this book is that ship had a boiler and sails.
Three quarters of the book was about the passengers bailing.
This ebook has to rewritten as historical novel.

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You'll need a magnifying glass...

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021

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This is more like a pamphlet ... with text so tiny it will strain your eyes to try and read.

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2022

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Do yourself a favor and buy the Kinder book on the topic. Agree with other reviewers: this is nothing more than a brochure, not a book. No original ideas here. This is a topic near & dear to me; I just wonder why the author(s) thought this was a good idea (???). Maybe the editors/author will reply here.

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