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Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc

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    The shipwreck and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, a native of Bordeaux, and captain of a ship . Translated from the French, by Mrs. Griffith.

    Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1737-1812. | Date: 1799
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    An account of the loss of the Luxborough Galley, by fire, on her voyage from Jamaica to London with the sufferings of her crew, in the year 1727. By William Boys, Second Mate.

    Boys, William, 1700-1774. | Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
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    Distressing dangers, and signal deliverances, religiously improv'd A sermon preach'd at New-Castle in New-Hampshire, January 1. 1726,7. By William Shurtleff, M.A. In commemoration of the sufferings, preservation and deliverance of a company of marriners, many years since ship-wreck'd upon Boon-Island Rock. To which is added, a narrative of the same published by the commander of said company. [Two lines from Psalms].

    Shurtleff, William, 1689-1747. | Date: 1727

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