Ship Ablaze
Subtitle: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
Publisher: Broadway
Published: June 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780767909068
Subjects: New York (State); United States - 20th Century; History: American; General Slocum (Steamboat); United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History; History - U.S.; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; Ships; New York; History / United States / State & Local; Fires and fire prevention; United States - State & Local - General; 20th century; Fires
First sentence: He awoke to the same familiar sounds as on every morning-the creak and groan of a wooden vessel at pier, the persistent lap, lap, lap of water against the hull, the squawk of a seagull, the peal of a distant ship whistle.