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CORNISH
SHIPWRECKS - THE SOUTH COAST
Richard Larn and Clive Carter.
Published in 1969 by David
& Charles, Devon, UK.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 264
pages, mono prints.
The definitive work for
the region. Includes The Lizard, Mount's Bay, Mousehole, The Manacles,
Falmouth Bay.
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CORNISH SHIPWRECKS THE
SOUTH COAST
Richard Larn & Clive
Carter.
Published 1973.Hardcover,
254 pages.With illustrations.
"A fascinating and detailed
record of shipwrecks between Plymouth Sound and Lands End over the past
five hundred years-from schooner to submarine,from trawler to treasure
ship.Heroic rescues,feats of salvage,unique photographs and numerous charts
of wreck locations make this an ideal book for all who revel in stories
of ships and the sea." |
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DEVON
SHIPWRECKS
Richard Larn.
Published 1977
Hardcover, 219 pages with
illustrations.
Ebay description: This is
the divers bible for discovering a wealth of shipwrecks cast away on the
coasts of Devon,England.A chronicle of the final hours of over a thousand
craft.From Men o' War and clipper ships,battleships and liners,to luggers,smacks
and trawlers. |
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DIVE
SCOTLAND'S GREATEST WRECKS
Rod Macdonald
Published by: Mainstream
Publishing, Edinburgh, in Scotland1993.
Hard printed cover (no DJ)
with 176 printed pages. Dimensions: 24.5 cms tall by 17 cms wide
The author has concentrated
on only ten wrecks off the coast of Scotland rather than try to pick on
many. He covers six wrecks off the West Coast, two in the Moray Firth
and finally two of the scuttled German fleet in Scapa Flow. Each wreck
is thoroughly researched both as a vessel before sinking, the circumstances
of the loss and what it’s like to dive (in 1993). The text
is extremely well illustrated
with photographs, illustrations and drawings and the underwater sketches
of the wreck are superb I have been lucky enough to dive most of
these wrecks and the book came in very useful. The wrecks he covers
are: Hispania, Rondo, Breda, HMS Port Napier, Wallachia, Akka, San Tiburcio,
Fram, Koln and Kronprinz Wilhelm. [pt] |
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EXPLORING
SHIPWRECKS
Keith Morris and Peter Rowlands
Published by: Artist House
Books, London, UK in 1993. (Originally Published in 1988)
Hard Cover with dustjacket.
192 printed pages and very well illustrated with many colour photographs.
Dimensions: 28.5 cms tall by 22.5 cms wide
The introduction gives a
potted history of diving and then moves onto look
at several individual wrecks
and areas of wrecks in discreet chapters: 1 The Etruscan Wreck (Giglio,
Italy). 2 The Rhone (The British Virgin Islands). 3 Wrecks
of the Great Lakes (North America). 4 The Umbria (Egyptian Red Sea).
5 The Royal Oak (Scapa Flow). 6 The Cristobol Colon (Bermuda).
7 Truk Lagoon (Philippines)
Each chapter/wreck is well
researched with archive photographs (where possible), a background history
as well as accounts of diving the wreck. [pt],[ps] |
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LOST ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
Diving the World's Ghost Ships
John Christopher Fine.
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, USA; 2005.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 253 pages, index; twenty pages
of mono photographs.
I havn't read the book and probably wont, more out of
envy for the author who has done so much, so best I leave it to someone
else to review the book, and simply print out the fly blurb:
Award-winning photojournalist-scuba diver John Christopher
Fine has explored and documented the sunken fleets of the world-from Scapa
Flow to Truk Lagoon-for most of his adult life, and the best of his discoveries
are showcased in this book. With the aid of his own haunting photographs,
Fine describes the sunken ships, dating from early Roman colonization to
modern times, and the stories behind them, relating the circumstances of
their loss and, in some cases, salvage and preservation. This is a book
that captures the drama of discovery while presenting the historical, scientific,
and archaeological facts. Where possible, eyewitness reports of sinkings
are included, as well as the folklore associated with some of the world's
great salvage attempts. Readers are also treated to personal accounts
of those who have found great treasure on long-lost shipwrecks. The result
of years of research underwater exploration and filming, Lost on the Ocean
Floor will capture the imagination of everyone with an interest in maritime
history and sunken ships. [ps] |
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SHIPWRECKS
AROUND BRITAIN. A Diver's Guide
Leo Zanelli.
Kaye & Ward. London.
1970. 1st Ed. 112 pp with 24 location charts, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w
illustrations (2 drawings & 16 photos). Hard cover, dustjacket.
22.2 x 14.
Guide to 400 wrecks with
brief information on the ship, the shipwreck and the wreck: Dimensions,
Tonnage, Cargo, Sinking date, Location - lat, long., Depth, Surveys, Depth,
Additional information.
(Cover: aerial photo of
ship with back broken.)
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SHIPWRECKS
AROUND BRITAIN, A Diver's Guide.
Leo Zanelli
Kaye & Ward.London.
1970.
Reprint (with corrections)
of the above 1970 original in 1978 (as shown left). Hardcover, dustjacket,
112 pp, with 24 location charts, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w photos.
22.2 x 14.
Guide to 400 wrecks with
brief information on the ship, the shipwreck and the wreck. (Cover - photo
with porthole). |
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GHOST
FLEET - The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll. James P. Delgardo.
University
of Hawaii Prss, Honolulu. 1996.
With
the recent opening up of Bikini Atoll after the atomic tests in July 1946,
a new destination rivals Truk Lagoon as the wreck divers' Mecca. Some 242
ships were anchored at various locations in the atoll when the US Government
detonated another atomic bomb. Immediately after the detonation, scientists
and the military combed the radiated wrecks gathering evidence to show
how massive the bomb damage could be. Operation Crossroads had been succesful.
It was however an inglorious end to the magnificent carrier USS Saratoga,
but she can now proudly claim to be the world's largest accessible shipwreck,
pushing the SS President Coolidge into second place - although getting
to Bikini Atoll is no breeze. The author, a director of the Vancouver Maritime
Museum, was on the 1989 expedition to Bikini. His excellent text and style,
and many historic and underwater photographs, make this an excellent book.
Hardcover,
204 pages, medium square format, colour plates. |
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SHIPWRECKS
- DIVING THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC.
Roderick M. Farb.
Menasha Ridge Press. Birmingham,
Alabama, 1985. ISBN 0 89732-064-6.
Softcover, 372 pages, mono
prints, bibliography, index. |
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THE
SEA HUNTERS: TRUE ADVENTURES WITH FAMOUS SHIPWRECKS
Clive Cussler & Craig
Dirgo.
Simon and Shuster, New York,
1996. ISBN 0 684 83027 2.
Hardcover, dust jacket,
364 pages, a few mono prints, index, list of NUMA ships under survey.
From the fly:
In The Sea Hunters, his
first nonfiction book, Cussler explores the special world of undersea adventure
that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He
describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement
with the search for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the
Bonhomme Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater
and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the
discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than sixty
shipwrecks Cussler and his NUMA volunteers have found, he has chosen the
twelve most interesting, whether because of the ship's history, the circumstances
of its sinking, or the trouble, frustration, and peril that were encountered
while trying to find the sunken wreck.He describes his searches for such
ships as the Union 24-gun frigate Cumberland, sunk during the Civil War
by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimack); the
Confederate Hunley, which became the first submarine in history to sink
a warship; the U- 21, a German U-boat, which during World War I became
the first sub to sink a warship and escape; and the American troop transport
Leopoldville, which was destroyed by a German submarine on Christmas Eve,
1944, with huge loss of life; as well as Engine #51, the lost locomotive
of Kiowa Creek, which roared off a storm-weakened high bridge in 1878.
The wrecks date as far back as 1840 and span the continental United States,
the Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea. [ps]
Softcover editions:
THE SEA HUNTERS: TRUE ADVENTURES
WITH FAMOUS SHIPWRECKS, Cussler & Dirgo, Pocket Books New York, New
York, U.S.A. 1997; 396 pages.
THE SEA HUNTERS II. Cussler
and Dirgo. Berkley Publishing Group New York, NY, U.S.A. 2004. |
