After the Storm: True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea

This volume recounts stories of seafaring disasters and explores the consequences of these disasters for survivors, rescuers, families, communities and, in some cases, nations. The stories include: a mid-Atlantic accident that destroyed a prominent family; the Pacific typhoon that postponed America's first war with Germany; New England's equivalent of the Titanic; the worst non-combat disaster in Navy history; the stormy deaths of a poet and of a great American woman writer; and three disturbing tales of derelict ships adrift at sea (including the involvement of the creator of Sherlock Holmes).