Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John by William Henry

Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John

William Henry

223 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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The tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 pe...

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