San Antonio College Library

Recounts true tales of sea disasters and inland catastrophes.

Accounts of the sinking of the Titanic, the Andrea Doria, the Morro Castle, the Mississippi sidewheeler Sultana, and other great vessels.

A look at the disaster that shocked the world on May 7, 1915, when the state-of-the-art ocean liner sank after being struck by a German U-Boat torpedo that killed over 1100 passengers.

In December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the merchant marine freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit a ferocious storm. Within 28 hours, the ship was slammed by two rogue waves--solid walls of water more than sixty feet high--cracking the decks and hull almost down to the waterline. The captain, Kurt Carlsen, mustered all hands to patch...

The tale of the crew of the tuna-fishing boat Cairo which began its storm-plagued trip off the coast of Costa Rica and ended with their rescue 142 days later, on June 14, 1988, having drifted 4000 miles in the Pacific Ocean.