Until the Sea Shall Free Them
Subtitle: Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine (Blue Jacket Books) (Blue Jacket Books)
Edition: 1st Bluejacket Books Ed edition
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: March 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781591142843
Subjects: Maritime history; True stories of endurance & survival; c 1980 to c 1990; History; Transportation; Military; Maritime; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; Nonfiction; Military - Naval; Investigation; Marine accidents; North Atlantic Ocean; Shipwrecks; United States
First sentence: At the loading pier near Norfolk, Bob Cusick, the veteran chief mate, spread steam coal into the holds of the Marine Electric like a pastry chef layering a cake.