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SS ATLANTICThe White Star Line’s First Disaster at SeaGreg Cochkanoff and Bob ChaulkIt is a calm, cold April night as a handsome steamship heads toward port. Passengers are snuggled warmly in their beds surrounded by comfortable accommodations. Suddenly there’s an ear-splitting noise and their ship shudders to a violent stop, then is plunged into complete darkness. This was the fate of S.S. Atlantic, the second ocean liner built for Thomas Ismay’s new White Star Line. Constructed forty-two years before the Titanic, Atlantic completed eighteen Liverpool to New York crossings before running aground off the coast of Nova Scotia on April 1, 1873. The worst transatlantic maritime disaster of the nineteenth century, the sinking of the Atlantic killed over half of the nearly 1,000 people on board. This absorbing book by Greg Cochkanoff who spent more than twenty-five years researching, diving and scouring for information on S.S. Atlantic writes about those events from a unique perspective. Tragically, Cochkanoff died unexpectedly in 2008. Bob Chaulk, a researcher, avid diver and writer of many articles about diving off Canada’s East Coast helped to complete this book that Cochkanoff dedicated to the children lost in the wreck of S.S. Atlantic. All were lost except one. SS Atlantic, The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea is packed with archival images, color photos of artifacts recovered from the wreck, her passenger list, the Inquiry results and the wreck’s final fate––all covered in this fine book. On the back cover, Karen Kamuda, Vice President of the Titanic Historical Society wrote, “Greg Cochkanoff’s narrative is full of color, suspense and tragedy. He recreates the scene of Atlantic’s last voyage very realistically while producing a valuable addition to the fascinating lore of this ill-fated White Star ship.” Softcover. 175 pages. Lavishly illustrated in color and black & white. © 2001-2009 The Titanic Historical Society, Inc.
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