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Wreck of the "Mary Deare" (Hardcover)

by Hammond Innes (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (Feb 1965)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006115187
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006115182
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,037,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Mary Deare was a 6000-ton freighter, which for forty years had tramped the seas, been shipwrecked and torpedoed during the war. Then one night she emerges from the Bay of Biscay after severe gales and is propelled into the newspaper headlines as a ship of mystery and tragedy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Edge-of -your-seat reading, 27 May 2003
This review is from: The Wreck of the "Mary Deare" (Windsor Selections) (Hardcover)
I came across this book about fifteen years ago and am now on my second copy!
Mr Innes wrote the story so well that you feel as though you are in the same room as the characters and can taste the sea spray in the air. But even though the characters are brilliantly written and the relationships between them interweave so well, it is the ship that I feel most empathy with.
It feels as though you are standing on the bridge of that monstrous ship and can feel the thunder of the waves through her decks on that terrible night in the Bay of Biscay.
This book is a must for anyone with a passion for a good sea-story or detective story.
Do not start to read this book if you can only give it a few minutes of your time - it is a book that you will not be able to put down and it was written with such quality and enthuasism that it would be an injustice to the great author himself and the Mary Deare(and yourself)not to give it the time and attention it deserves.
I am now going to go and read it again!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars So-so sailing tale, 7 Jun 2007
By Toby Smith (Chatham, Kent United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WRECK OF MARY DEARE (Mass Market Paperback)
The best bits here were the sailing details and Hammond Innes's usual flair with first-person narration. Unfortunately, although much better than anything Alastair Maclean, for example, ever did, this isn't one of Innes's best. The story particularly suffers from the tedious court case in the middle, as well as an array of cardboard characters typical of adventure books of the time.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good entertainment, 28 Oct 2007
By Philippe Horak (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (Hardcover)
The "Mary Deare" was a 6000-ton freighter which emerged one night from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel, and into the newspaper headlines. It falls to John Sands, a salvage operator, to investigate what had happened to her. The damage sustained by the ship in the forward holds, the water making headway against the pumps, the shoring of the stoke-hold bulkhead, the fire in the radio shack, the disappearance of crew member Dellimare, the fire in number three hold and the subsequent abandonment of the ship by all except the captain. A disaster resulting in the death of twelve men during a mad scramble to get away from the "Mary Deare" that, in point of fact, was in no immediate danger of sinking...
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