The Wreck of the William Brown 
Subtitle: A True Tale of Overcrowded Lifeboats and Murder at Sea
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Published: February 23, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780071434683
First sentence: ON THE EVENING OF 19 APRIL 1841, the American sailing ship William Brown was making ten knots under full sail when at around 8:45 P.M.-survivors disagreed about the exact moment-it scraped a floating pan of ice several hundred miles off the Newfoundland coast.