FIRE AT SEA (280 pp.)—Thomas Gallagher—Rinehart ($4). On the night of Sept. 7, 1934, the fast, modern cruise ship Mono Castle of the Ward Line was bucking into a stiff northeaster off the New Jersey ...

At the entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a ...

In 1934, the passenger liner SS Morro Castle was sailing along the American coast when a devastating fire broke out onboard. Within hours, flames raced through the ship’s interior, trapping passengers ...

In 1934, the passenger liner SS Morro Castle caught fire while sailing along the U.S. East Coast. Within hours, the ship was engulfed in flames, turning a luxury cruise into a terrifying disaster.