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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In October 1918, a steamship carrying the Yukon south through Alaska's Inside Passage vanished within sight of help. For nearly forty hours, the SS Princess Sophia sat stranded on Vanderbilt Reef while rescue ships circled helplessly in a shrieking storm. Then the weather turned worse, the sea tore the liner free, and 353 passengers and crew disappeared into the freezing dark. No one survived. It remains the deadliest maritime disaster in Pacific Northwest history.The Princess Sophia brings this catastrophe to life as a gripping human drama: gold-rush veterans, families, workers, and civil servants hurrying home before winter; Captain Leonard Locke, an experienced master forced into an impossible decision; and the crews of nearby vessels who could see the stranded ship yet could not reach her. As blinding snow, bad judgment, and savage seas converge, every hour tightens the tension in a story where hope lingers just long enough to become unbearable.Vivid, scrupulously grounded in the historical record, and driven by the lives caught inside the tragedy, this is narrative history at its most haunting. The Princess Sophia was more than a shipwreck: it was a wound in the memory of Alaska, the Yukon, and the coast itself. Once you know how close rescue came, you will never forget the name Princess Sophia.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Princess Sophia | The 1918 Alaska Sinking That Left No Survivors | Silas Renby | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NobleTrex Press | EAN 9798896653240 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …