Many were held by the sea : the tragic sinking of HMS Otranto
Scott, R. Neil2012
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'Many were held by the sea' tells the story of the crash of HMS Otranto and HMS Kashmir off the coast of Scotland near the end of World War I. The two ships, former British passenger liners from the P&O Steamship Company, collided while ferrying hundreds of American soldiers from New York to various British ports. The Kashmir managed to back away and follow the harsh wartime order that required her to ignore any maritime disasters that might befall her sister ships and to continue on her prescribed course rather than stop and take on survivors. Thus it was that the severely damaged Otranto was left dead in the water with more than a thousand souls aboard. The narrative details the courage of the young men on board and the anguish of their relatives on the home front, ultimately building up to the disastrous conclusion.
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Many were held by the sea : the tragic sinking of HMS Otranto / R. Neil Scott
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Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, 2012
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xxx, 249 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
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9781442213425
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English
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