Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 21, 2018 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Europe, Cars
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 08, 2018 -
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Category: Buildings and Other Structures, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Unauthorized Dwellings, 1920s, Twenty-first Century
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 09, 2017 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Death, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1950s, Australia, North America
In 1929, Joan Lowell published an autobiography, Cradle of the Deep, published by Simon & Schuster, in which she claimed that her sea captain father took her aboard his ship, the Minnie A. Caine, at the age of three months when she was suffering from malnutrition. He nursed her back to health. She lived on the ship, with its all-male crew, until she was 17. She became skilled in the art of seamanship and once harpooned a whale by herself. Ultimately, the ship burned and sank off Australia, and Lowell swam three miles to safety, with a family of kittens clinging by their claws to her back. In fact, the book was a fabrication; Lowell had been on the ship, which remained safe in California, for only 15 months. The book was a sensational best seller until it was exposed as pure invention.[1] The book was later parodied by Corey Ford in his book Salt Water Taffy in which Lowell abandons the sinking ship (which had previously sunk several times before "very badly") and swims to safety with her manuscript.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 18, 2017 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Movies, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1920s
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 16, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Kludges, Hacks and Duct-tape Repairs, Military, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1980s
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 23, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Suicide, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1920s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 15, 2016 -
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Category: Inventions, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1920s, Dismemberment
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 02, 2016 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Work and Vocational Training, Children, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 05, 2016 -
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Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol, Brain Damage
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 10, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1960s
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