Rhode Island disasters
Subtitle: tales of tragedy by air, sea, and rail
By: Jim Ignasher
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781609491000
Subjects: Anecdotes; Local History; Disasters; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-126).
Table of contents: title: The sinking of the SS Metis, 1872; title: Nine seconds, 1895; title: Highball! 1916; title: The Cape Fear incident, 1920; title: The Mackinac explosion, 1925; title: The legacy of the S-51, 1925; title: The Great Swamp wreck, 1926; title: The Black Duck affair, 1929; title: The jinxed airplane, 1934; title: A mysterious midair collision over Scituate, 1942; title: In the service of their country, 1943; title: Thunderbolts swallowed by fog, 1943; title: Wildcats into the wind, 1943; title: The case of the missing Liberator, 1944; title: A D-Day mystery at the "Dumplings," 1944; title: One secret revealed, another kept, 1944; title: Rescue at sea, 1948; title: The strange disappearance of Lieutenant Commander Albert Foster, 1949; title: "This is not a drill!" 1954; title: Ten days before Christmas, 1958; title: When a Scorpion strikes, 1959; title: Guardian angels, 1962; title: A fire aboard Flight 458, 1982.