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| Commander Edward Ellsberg was born in New Haven but his
family moved to Colorado when he was a boy. He entered the United States
Naval Academy in 1910 and was graduated as honor man of his class. After
varied service on the USS Texas, he was ordered to the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology for post graduate work in Naval Architecture where he received
a Master of Science degree. Thereafter he specialized in construction,
diving, and engineering. His many inventions have proved important contributions
to naval science.
In 1925 he was detailed as Salvage Officer on the S-51. As a result of his extraordinary work in raising that submarine, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the Navy (the first time that honor has ever been conferred in time of peace) and promoted to Commander. He retired from the Navy but volunteered his services for the rescue of the S-4 during which he narrowly escaped death. In connection with his salvage work on these submarines, the Secretary of the Navy wrote to him saying: "For this work, well done, cheerfully done, and loyally done, I thank you in behalf of the Navy." Other books by Ellsberg not otherwise listed: PIGBOATS CAPTAIN PAUL OCEAN GOLD TREASURE BELOW "I HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT" |
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This book is actually ABOUT Edward Ellesberg, a biography.
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Books by Edward Ellsberg:
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MEN UNDER THE SEA
Commander Edward Ellsberg. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co, New York, 1939. Hardcover, dustjacket, 370 pages, mono prints. Includes the salvage of submarines S-51, S-4, and Squalus, the Laurentic gold, the Egypt's gold, and previous century ships such as the Rose of Algier, and James and Mary. Undersea tragedies including submarine salvage work. A chapter of the lure of sunken treasure is also included. [ps] |
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THIRTY FATHOMS DEEP
Commander Edward Elsberg. Published in 1964 by Dodd Mead. Details the loss of the Spanish Galleon, the Santa Cruz, scuttled 300 years ago off Peru to save her treasure-jewels and great bars of yellow gold from falling prize to Drake and his corsairs in the famous Golden Hind. The treasure seekers must battle a ship of modern day pirates to the death to recover the treasure. |
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| HELL ON ICE: THE SAGA OF THE JEANNETTE.
Commander Edward Ellsberg. Published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1938. Hardcover, 421 untrimmed pages. Ebay description: Nearly sixty years have slipped by since the Jeannette sailed away through the Golden Gate sped by cheers, sirens, salutes, by high hopes -- and by a woman's tears; the first expedition to seek the North Pole by way of the Behring Sea. Only a scattering of people recall today her dramatic fate, though it was the sensation of the time. No doubt she would soon be remembered only by Arctic historians had not Commander Ellsberg, delving into the facts and circumstances of that voyage, found them of the stuff that has made great human drama since the days of Troy. Commander Ellsberg discovered in the half-suppressed logs of the hapless expedition a story of incredible excitement and variety -- a tale of men locked two years in the Arctic pack, of sudden disaster, of desperate flight across the cruel ice, of a wild small boat passage over the storm swept Arctic seas to the barren frozen tundra of Siberia. But more than that, he saw in those events human heroism and courage in the face of such hardships as have never been recorded before nor since. He saw men who had been ordinary sailors and officers transformed by extraordinary occurrences -- some into gallant leaders, a few into shirkers and mutineers, others into lunatics, some into reckless martyrs, one at least into a hero whom all men can be proud. No one could be more ideally equipped to make this saga of the Arctic live than Commander Edward Ellsberg. Author of On the Bottom, already recognized as a classic of the sea, himself a brilliant engineer, he recounts of the story through the vivid personality of George Wallace Melville, chief engineer on the Jeannette. A careful research through diaries, journals, Naval Inquiries, and Congressional Investigations enables him to use the actual dialogue and set down authentically the characters of the whole ship's company. Above all, his rare knowledge of men in action and his rare ability to depict them make the reader virtually a member of the most extraordinary Artic expedition in history. In Hell on Ice he takes a musty, never wholly known record and recreates it in the flesh and blood with wild Arctic gales singing through it, with the screech and roar of the tumbling ice floes, the flaming colors of the Aurora Borealis, the smell of sweaty furs, and the cries of men, now hoarse and desperate as they face destruction, now softened by the hope of salvation; while through it all, strangely woven into the fabric of the banner borne along till it falls from dying fingers to the ice, is the presence of the woman who waits at home, in agony looking toward the void of the unknown North. |
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NO BANNERS NO BUGLES.
Edward Ellsberg, Dodd Mead and Sons, New York 1949. |
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UNDER THE RED SEA SUN.
Commander Edwrd Ellsberg. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1946. Hardcover, dustjackt, 500 pages exactly. From the fly: In Under the Red Sea Sun Commander Ellsberg tells his greatest story - his own experiences, facing with his men an almost incredible ordeal, in which every reader, man or woman, will find himself immediately absorbed. The reader is taken to what is quite literally the hottest place on earth, the smashed Italian naval base of Massawa on the African shore of the Red Sea. There he is confronted with a challenge of truly titanic proportions. With time of the essence as Rommel races across the Libyan desert to the west, this sabotaged shambles of an erstwhile port must somehow be made to operate. The blazing Red Sea sun made working conditions unbearable. The trials and frus- trations of men struggling in that desperate situation have an ageless appeal. What they were attempting had been pronounced hopeless several times over. There were men on hand not only to discourage but actually to obstruct any attempts to get the job done. In short, it was a completely impossible task. And yet Commander Ellsberg, with a handful of Americans, set to work. The impossible began to be accomplished. The wrecks came up out of the sea, ships passed through drydocks. As agonized men strug gled day and night in the fiendish heat great and heroic deeds were done. Under the Red Sea Sun is not a book to describe; it is a book to read. A few pages and you will find yourself under the spell of its urgency, caught up in its tre mendous drive. This is Commander Ellsberg's greatest book, a story destined to take its place as one of the great maritime epics of our day. +end fly. For once I have to agree with th fly - it is a tremendous book, exceptionally well written and quite exciting. [ps] |
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SPANISH INGOTS
Diving on the Santa Cruz Treasure. Commander Edward Ellsberg. |
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| THE FAR SHORE
Edward Ellsberg, Dodd mead and Sons, New York 1949. |
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