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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 Manacls, Falmouth
Bay.
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CORNISH SHIPWRECKS THE
SOUTH COAST
Richard Larn & 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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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
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,
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