{"id":4303,"date":"2026-06-26T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartmagazine.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:49:17","slug":"shipwreck-robinson-crusoe-and-the-andrea-doria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartmagazine.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"Shipwreck: Robinson Crusoe and the Andrea Doria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Steve Rockwell<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1719, Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner<\/em>, is generally regarded as the first English novel. Its immediate success might be attributed to its documentary, confessional style of narration. The receptivity by the general public to tales of shipwreck already had the Alexander Selkirk account as a classic example. Lack of lighthouses and the accurate mapping of shoals made naval disasters inevitable in this age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Note to reader: Shipwreck<\/em> article is in the early stages of preparation at this point. It is yet to be completed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Luminaria in San Antonio edition of dArt International Magazine (2008), featuring Bill Fitzgibbons <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then San Antonio Mayor Phil Hardberger photographed at a 2008 Luminaria event by Steve Rockwell. The Mayor married Linda Morgan in 1968. She had been the “miracle girl” survivor of the Andrea Doria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jouko reser till Canada,<\/strong> October 1, 1957, Lennart Hansson scrap book page with two of his photos of Jouko Salomaa at the train station in Grangesberg, Sweden, taken the day before Jouko boarded the SAL ocean liner Stockholm in the Copenhagen to Halifax, Canada Atlantic crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Swedish American Line ship The Stockholm photographed after its 1956 collision with the Andrea Doria in Nantucket Sound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Movie poster for Luis Bunel’s 1954 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. It was screened a year or so before the 1957 Atlantic crossing by Jouko Salomaa at Cassels movie theater in Grangesberg, Sweden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sample Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe text:<\/em> In this distress the mate of our vessel laid hold of the boat, and with the help of the rest of the men got her slung over the ship\u2019s side; and getting all into her, let go, and committed ourselves, being eleven in number, to God\u2019s mercy and the wild sea; for though the storm was abated considerably, yet the sea ran dreadfully high upon the shore, and might be well called den wild zee<\/em>, as the Dutch call the sea in a storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now our case was very dismal indeed; for we all saw plainly that the sea went so high that the boat could not live, and that we should be inevitably drowned. As to making sail, we had none, nor if we had could we have done anything with it; so we worked at the oar towards the land, though with heavy hearts, like men going to execution; for we all knew that when the boat came near the shore she would be dashed in a thousand pieces by the breach of the sea. However, we committed our souls to God in the most earnest manner; and the wind driving us towards the shore, we hastened our destruction with our own hands, pulling as well as we could towards land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the shore was, whether rock or sand, whether steep or shoal, we knew not. The only hope that could rationally give us the least shadow of expectation was, if we might find some bay or gulf, or the mouth of some river, where by great chance we might have run our boat in, or got under the lee of the land, and perhaps made smooth water. But there was nothing like this appeared; but as we made nearer and nearer the shore, the land looked more frightful than the sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham<\/a>. The illustrator presents a convincing panorama of the wrecked merchantman off the coast of a remote island off the South American coast (left), with several small figures (presumably, one of them Crusoe). London publisher: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1863-64<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jouko Salomaa, Robinson Crusoe and Friday, 1957, ink on paper. Gifted by Jouko to classmate Lennart Hansson before Jouko’s ocean departure <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Steve Rockwell Published in 1719, Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, is generally regarded as the first English novel. Its immediate success might be attributed to its documentary, confessional style of narration. The receptivity by the general public to tales of shipwreck already had the Alexander … <\/p>\n

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