[PDF.75ue] Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset

Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset

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 | #3524032 in Books |  The History Press |  2009-11-27 |  2009-11-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.31 x6.00l,.50 | File type: PDF | 128 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| VERY complete look at the loss of the Wawaset|By critters|Despite living most of my life within a radius of 30 miles or so of where the Wawaset went down, I'd been unaware of this bit of history. "Disaster on the Potomac" seems to be as complete a look as possible, including a map, and using photographs, drawings, models, art, and more to fill in the gaps, such as there not bei|About the Author|Alvin Oickle is the author of two other recent disaster books"? from The History Press: Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill and Disaster at Dawn: The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896. His other nineteenth-century history books inclu

For passengers of the steamboat Wawaset, August 8, 1873, began with a pleasant cruise from Washington, D.C., down the Potomac River. As the Wawaset came into sight of a small Virginia landing, fire broke out below decks, and frantic passengers leapt from the flames only to be pulled down by the swift waters. Author Alvin F. Oickle puts a human face to the tragedy as he profiles some of the seventy-five who perished, among them young mother Alethea Gray and six members of...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Disaster on the Potomac: The Last Run of the Steamboat Wawaset   |  Alvin F. Oickle.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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