Maritime Incidents in 1914 - SS Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse, Voyage of the Karluk, RMS Empress of Ireland, SMS Gneisenau, SMS Hela, HMS Audacious (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Voyage of the Karluk, RMS Empress of Ireland, SMS Gneisenau, SMS Hela, HMS Audacious, SMS Scharnhorst, HMS Bulwark, RMS Oceanic, SS Southern Cross, SMS Yorck, Russian cruiser Zhemchug, HMCS Karluk, SMS Friedrich Carl, German hospital ship Ophelia, List of shipwrecks in 1914, SMS Cap Trafalgar, SMS Magdeburg, SS Pfalz, HMS Amphion, Battle of Trindade, Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye, SS Konigin Luise, HMS Hermes, HMS Aboukir, HMS Pegasus, HMS Invincible, SMS Nurnberg, HMS E3, SMS Coln, SS Montrose, SMS Karlsruhe, SS Komagata Maru, SMS Mainz, HMS Hawke, HMS A7, SS Rohilla, Russian cruiser Pallada, HMS Cressy, SMS Leipzig, HMS D2, HMS Hogue, HMS D5, SS Storstad, SS Indus, SMS Ariadne, SS Monroe, Alma A. E. Holmes. Excerpt: The last voyage of HMCS Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, ended with the loss of the ship and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement. On her outward voyage in August 1913 Karluk, a brigantine formerly used as a whaler, became trapped in the Arctic ice while sailing to a rendezvous point at Herschel Island. After a long drift across the Beaufort and Chukchi seas the ship was crushed and sunk. In the ensuing months the crew and expedition staff struggled to survive, first on the ice and later on the shores of Wrangel Island. In all, eleven men died before help could reach them. The Canadian Arctic Expedition was organised under the leadership of Canadian-born anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and had both scientific and geographic objectives. Shortly after Karluk was trapped, Stefansson and a small party left the ship, stating that they intended to hunt for caribou. As Karluk drifted from its fixed position it became impossible for the hunting party to return; Stefansson then devoted himself to the expedition's other objectives, leaving the cre...