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60 years later, a local hero looks back on his toughest rescue

WLBZ-TV - Feb 19, 2012
Black was on board the Yakutat, a 311-foot Coast Guard weather ship. Their mission was to save the crewmen aboard Ft. Mercier from the icy cold waters as fast as they could. "It was too rough to do too much so they decided they would have them jump one ...

Garden is a labour of love

Vernon Morning Star - Feb 8, 2012
She came to British Columbia and worked as a cook on a Canadian Coast Guard weather ship 500 miles off the coast of Victoria and would be at sea for seven weeks at a time. She met her husband, Tom, who also worked on the ship, and in 1982 they settled ...

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So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior

by: Curt Brown

It was Thanksgiving 1905 and thirty-one ships were on Lake Superior, making the season’s last, daring run--a run old salts had warned against, but to no avail against the shipping companies’ demands.  What none of the sailors knew until it was far too late was that they would soon face the worst storm ever to hit the Great Lake, a storm that nearly half of their number would not survive.

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Cruising Ports: Florida to California via Panama

by: Capt. John E. Rains, Capt. Patricia Miller Rains
Nautical guidebook for boaters making this popular 5,000-mile cruising route between the US coasts via the Panama Canal: Cuba, Mexico's Gulf Coast & Yucatan Channel, Belize's outer cays, Rio Dulce, W. Caribbean islands, Panama's Caribbean & Pacific cruising grounds, How To Transit the Panama Canal (new rules & fees), Costa Rica, Fonseca, El Salvador, Guatemala, Pacific Mexico, lower Sea of Cortez, Baja California.

Nearly 1,000 destinations, this guidebook describes the safe approaches by sea (from either direction), safe anchorages, where to find a marina slip, fuel, water, provisions, how to clear papers or find a ship's agent, where to find boat yards, marine repairs & services, nearby eateries, land transport, sportfishing & diving spots, side trips, plus historical & cultural notes.
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A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794

"Of the hundreds of logbooks and journals I have examined, this is the most valuable for the slave trade in western Africa.... [Mouser's] exhaustive background research and editing are exemplary." —George Brooks

Captain Samuel Gamble's log contains the record of a slaving venture to Africa and Jamaica that nearly failed. It is one of the best firsthand narratives of the slave trade to survive. Bruce Mouser's faithfully transcribed and carefully annotated edition of Gamble's log provides a haunting perspective on slave trading at the end of the 18th century.
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Story of Transatlantic Flight

by: David Beaty
The Atlantic had proved a graveyard for many ships, and when the first butterfly craft began to fly it after the First World War, all the omens warned that it would swallow up planes as well. Nonetheless, the pioneers - Read, Alcock and Brown, Lindbergh, as well as many who gambled and lost - continued to pit themselves against the odds. David Beaty involves us not only in the drama of man against the elements but in the increasingly vehement struggle of man against man: the race to be first, the race to beat the ships, the race to run a commercial airline, the race to be fastest.
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