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DIVE SOUTH DEVON
Kendall McDonald
Underwater World Publications
London 1990 . Softcover. |
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DIVE SUSSEX
Kendall Mcdonald
Published by: Underwater
World Publications in 1999
(Originally published in
1985, revised in 1889 and 1995).
Printed card covers - 208
printed pages. Dimensions: 21 cms tall by 15 cms wide
The guide is divided into
11 sections and has 2 appendix. Within the 11 sections, there are
8 areas but the book into the following: "How to Use This guide", "About
Sussex", "Dive Planning", "Area 1: Chichester Harbour to Bognor Regis",
"Area 2: Pagham and Pagham Horbour", "Area 3: Littlehampton", "Area 4:
ferring to Hove", "Area 5: Brighton to Burrow Head", "Area 6: Newhaven
to Beachy Head", "Area 7: Eastbourne to St Leonards" and "Area 8: Hastings
to Broomhill Sands". Appendix covers "Dive Services" while
appendix 2 is "The Divers Conduct". Each area is borken down into
dive sites, both wrecks and scenic. There are positions and each
wrech is well researche with many photographs and diagrals, many of which
are in Colour. [pt,pw] |
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DIVE THE ISLE OF WIGHT
AND HAMPSHIRE
Kendall McDonald. |
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FISH-WATCHING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Kendall McDonald et al
John Murray, London 1972.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 8.5" x 5.5", 270 pp. 84 colour photographs, 36 b/w
pics, index.
A manual for pleasure divers.
Also have listed:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972, Hardback in dust wrapper. ISBN 0684136562 |
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GREAT
BRITISH WRECKS
Volumes 1 to 3.
Kendall McDonald.
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All books subtitled:
Subtitled: The Wreck Divers Logbook, Vol 1(2,3)
Published by Underwater
World Publications, London Vols 1 and 2 in 1986, Vol 3 in 1987.
Card cover.
Vol 1: 178 printed pages;
Vol 2: 218 printed pages; Vol 3: 196 printed pages..
All 3 volumes dimensions
21 cms tall by 15 cms wide
Each volume contains written
historical details and photographs of well known wrecks around the British
coast. Volume 1 and 2 give details of 12 wrecks, while volume 3 details
15 wrecks. All the wrecks have been thoroughly researched by the
author and each is very well illustrated with many photographs of the ship
before it sank plus lots of other interesting ephemera and diagrams.
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MORE THAN
SKIN DEEP.
Kendall McDonald. 1971.
More Than Skin Deep
Kendall McDonald
Published by Pelham Books
London in 1971
Hard back with DJ 220 pages
Dimensions: 22 cms tall
by 14.5 cms wide
Book comprises of 16 chapters
and 25 monochrome photographs, maps and charts.
Contains stories of diving
from the UK and around the world, many of the photos are diving related.
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SPEARFISHING
IN BRITAIN
Kendall McDonald and Phil
Smith.
Published by Stanley Paul
? Co Ltd, London in 1963
Hardback book with 160 Printed
pages with 16 b/w photos and 20 line drawings
Dimensions: 19 cms tall
by 12.5 cms wide
This book has 13 chapters
deals with spearfishing in the UK in the early 1960’s. Starting from
“First Principles”, it moves through to more advanced techniques and other
related subjects including “Spearfishing and the Law”, “Competitions” and
more menacingly “Accidents Can Happen”. Finally the book concludes
with 5 appendices containing various details like shops around the UK where
equipment could be purchased, branches of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BS-AC),
finally UK and World spearfishing records at the time. |
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THE TIN OPENERS
Kendall McDonald.
Published by the Historic
Military Press, UK in 2003.
Soft cover, no dustjacket
and 32 printed pages. Dimensions 21cms tall by 15 cms wide
Contains 20 photographs
and 2 line drawings
This small book tells the
story of a secret world war 1 UK Royal Navy diving team set up to help
counter the threat of the German U-Boats, in particular one diver called
Ernest Charles (Dusty) Miller. The team were referred to as “The
Tin Openers” and were very successful in retrieving items such as plans
of newly laid mine fields, builders drawings of new U-Boats, new top secret
German equipment fitted to U-Boats, orders for past ? current missions
and code books. A fascinating read.. [pt] |
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THE TREASURE
DIVERS
Kendall McDonald. Foreword
by H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.
Pelham Books, London.
1976.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 246
pages, illustrations, maps and appendices. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince
of Wales.
Stories of some 50 wrecks
around Britain's coasts from anceint times to the 1800's, where they went
down, the year they went down ,riches found, anecdotes, detailed instructions
on how to identify them.
From the fly: The wrecks
around Britain's coasts are a constant challenge to underwater explorers.
Some of the wrecks contain immense treasure, and you may read here of thousands
of gold and silver coins recovered from them. The 'treasure' modern divers
seek, however, is often not bullion, but new knowledge about our seafaring
past. The challenge is not only in the diving - cold, difficult and dangerous
though it is - but also in piecing together the evidence which will identify
one of these lost ships, her cargo, and perhaps how she was wrecked. The
Treasure Divers is about this painstaking underwater archaeology and the
divers who do it - mostly dedicated amateurs working under expert guidance.
From his own experience and from hours of discussion with the divers involved,
Kendall McDonald tells, for general reader and diving enthusiast alike,
fascinating stories of the discovery and examination of some fifty wrecks
found in recent years, ranging from Bronze-Age traders to nineteenth-century
warships. This is not a technical manual about diving, but The Treasure
Divers has much to teach the amateur diver: there are detailed instructions
about identifying lost ships by using public records, in an appendix which
includes many examples of real-life underwater detective work; other appendices
explain how to preserve fragile finds (which might soon deteriorate on
their return to the air), and how the Protection of Wrecks Act affects
divers. Here too is a comprehensive 'Diver's Guide' to the wrecks around
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THE UNDERWATER
BOOK
Edited by Kendall McDonald
for the Britih Sub-Aqua Club. Forward by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh.
Pelham Books Ltd, London,
1968.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 218
pages, mainly mono plates but some colour,surprisingly no index. This is
not a 'how-to-dive' books which the British are so prolific in producing,
but more of a 'diver interest' book with contribution chapters by several
well-known authors: 'The Amateur Divers of Britain', by Harold Gould; 'Diving
with a Purpose', by Alexander McKee; 'Wreck Diver', by Derek Cockbill;
'Diving in an Effluent Society', by Dr David Ballamy; 'The Mulberry that
Missed the Invasion', by Kendall McDonald; 'Fortress Under the Sea', by
Major Hume Wallace; 'Camera Underwater', by Horace Dobbs', 'Around Britain
Underater', by Leo Zanelli; and 'Diving into the Future', by Colin McLeod.
An appendix 'Where to find the Divers', lists a number fo clubs and asaociations.
It is a most interesting book, moreso in its ay no doubt, to the qualified
diver. he chaptes are generally written in the first person and represent
the author's actual experiences."Diving underwater is the answer to the
explorer's dream, particularly if he has only modest means, and since the
invention of the aqualung people have flocked to learn the technique. It
has opened up a whole realm of exploration to amateurs and they hve jumped
the chance". HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, 1968. [cd]
Also:
THE SECOND UNDERWATER
BOOK
Edited by Kendall McDonald
for the British Sub-Aqua Club with forward by Admiral of the Fleet the
Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Published by: Pelham Books
Ltd, London in 1970.
Hardback book with 224 printed
pages and containing 27 B/W photographs
Dimensions: 22.5 cms tall
by 14 cms wide.
This is the second book
in a series edited by Kendall McDonald. The book is a collection
of 12 diving related stories by various contributors including Richard
Larn (Poor England Has Lost So Many Men), Reg Vallentine (So You
Want to Run A Diving School), Lt Cdr Alan Bax R. N. (A Chest Full of Silver)
and Bill Butland (Elephant Tusks from the Sea) plus many more. [pt] |
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THE WORLD
UNDERWATER
Ed. Kendal McDonald, with
a foreword by the Prince of Wales.
First published 1973 by
Pelham Books, UK.
Hardback, dustjacket, ilustrated.
"This is the third in the
series of thrilling stories fromthe men who proble into the secrets of
the world beneath the sea: divers from the BSAC and the Royal Navy tell
stories of wrecks, icy water and sharks. |
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THE WRECK
HUNTERS
Roger Jefferis and Kendall
McDonald
George G. Harrap and
Co. London 1966 First Edition Hardcover, dust jacket , 255 pp, 30 photographic
illustrations, 7 line drawings (2 being on the endpapers)
Rediscovering and exploring
the sunken ships around Great Britain. Dimensions 22.5cms tall by 14.5cms
wide. Contains 31 half tone plates and 7 line drawings.
Written in 12 chapters,
it contains both authors research and accounts of diving wrecks around
the UK coast. Each chapter covers many wrecks and they include ships
like the SS Maine (sunk in 1917), the Spanish Armada wreck San Pedro el
Mayor and too many others to mention. Detail of each wreck is told
in detail including when, how and why it sank plus what was found.
There is an appendix covering further subjects including “Wreck Hunting
and the law”, Learning to dive, Underwater Archaeology and even a wreck
list! [pt]
Also: The Adventurers Club
London 1967 Reprint
US Edition: A.S. Barnes
and Co., New York. 1966. Hardcover, dustjacket, 255 pp, with 5 line
drawings, and 60 bw illust. Maps of wrecks from the Needles to North Foreland.
Accounts of amateur aqualung divers of Great Britain and their search for
sunken wrecks around the English coast. Wreck List. (Cover left, lower)
Covers some of the older
wrecks along the south-west coast of England facing the English Channel,
right up to the Goodwin Sands, and also across the Irish Sea to the coast
of Ireland. Ships include Anson, Herzogin Cecile, Empress of India,
Falls of Garry, City of Quebec, Lusitania, Mary Rose, Impregnable, Hindostan
and many others including un-named Spanish galleons. [ps-nodj]
From the US edition dustjackket:(see
image, lower, left)
From the dust jacket:
"The story of each wreck
is told in detail, and there are dozens of wrecks discussed: when, how,
and why each ship sank. Then we don aqualung, mask, and swimfins and are
taken below the surface to see what the wrecks look like today - years
and, in some cases, centuries after they were sunk. What the divers found,
and what they have recovered from the wrecks are described and illustrated."
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THE WRECK
WALKERS GUIDE
by Kendall McDonald
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Published By
Ashgrove Press, Ashbourne, UK in 1982
Hardcover with dust jacket
and 148 Printed pages. (Also available in paperback). Dimensions 22.5cms
tall by 14cms wide
Contains 15 photographs
and 13 line drawn maps.
Written in 12 chapters,
the book contains a fine collection of shipwreck stories with details of
how to actually find the wrecks. All ships were wrecked around the
south and west coast of England from the Straights of Dover to the Bristol
Channel. Details included include such famous wrecks the The Mary
Rose, The Amsterdam and the Mohegan. [pt]
Hardcover far left (brown);
card covers immediate left (blue). |
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TREASURE BENEATH THE
SEA - The Wreck Detectives in their Search for Sunken Ships
Kendall Mcdonald.
British edition: ?
U.S.Edition:A. S. Barnes,
Cranbury, Newe Jersey, 1974. Hardcover, dust jacket, 192pp., b/w
pls., maps, plans, appends., bibliog., index.
Illustrated account of the
hunt for sunken Ships ? Treasure. Inc.; some interesting technical diving
content. |
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VIVA PENELOPE!
Kendall McDonald
Diving???
Pelham Books 1973. Hardcover,
dustjacket.
In McDonald's book 'More
Than Skin Deep' there is a photo of a lady in a bikini referred to as Penny!
There is also photos of
a small boat called Penolope. C ould be either or both!!! |
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