Black Rock and Blue Water : The Wreck of the Royal Mail Ship Rhone in St. Narciso's Hurricane of October 1867
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Naval Institute Press
2013
EISBN 9780870210402
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Millwall Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company; 2. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; 3. Royal Mail Ship Rhone; 4. Riding the Rhone; 5. Safety at Sea; 6. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in Operation; 7. The Virgin Islands; 8. The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867; 9. "Sudden and Imminent Peril"; 10. The Desperate Flight of Rhone and Conway; 11. Shipwreck on Black Rock; 12. The Islands after the Hurricane; 13. Jeremiah Murphy's Salvage Operations; 14. Rhone Today; Notes; Selected Bibliography; About the Author
RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands' population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters.Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside of the hurricane and nearly blinded by rain and spray, Rhone drove aground on Black Rock, in the shallows off Salt Island, shoved to her fate b
RMS Rhone, just three years old then and the pretty queen of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's fleet, sank in the great St. Narciso hurricane of late October 1867, a devastating category three storm that bored a line east to west atop the Antilles, and ruthlessly thinned the islands' population while it sank some seventy ships in port and local waters.Fleeing from Tortola across Drake Strait and toward open water at full speed, through the backside of the hurricane and nearly blinded by rain and spray, Rhone drove aground on Black Rock, in the shallows off Salt Island, shoved to her fate b
