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| Please note: The books are listed for interest only,
and not offered for sale.
See also: Maritime archaeology, and also Salvage. . authors Robert Stenuit, Robert Burgess, Robert Marx. |
| ATLAS OF TREASURE MAPS.
Publisher Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, NY, 1957. F.L. Coffman. Color maps showing over 3,000 locations of sunken and buried treasures and ships in the Western Hemisphere and British Isles. Cloth hardback cover. Copyrighted in 1952, 1957. Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: Map 57-3. Author gives two pages of facts and helpful hints on treasure-hunting. He has investigated over 42,000 locations in the Western Hemisphere, and authenticated 3,500, most of which are included in this volume, with latitude and longitude, the name of the ship, when it sank, and other pertinent information. |
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DEEP SEA TREASURE
Mark Williams. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1981. Hardcover, dustjacket, colour and mono prints. 'The author examines the work of team leaders and divers such as Roland Morris, Robert Stenuit, Rex Cowan, and Robert Marx, with an important side look at the original discoveries of the late Kip Wagner off the coast of Florida.' [ps] |
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DEVIL'S GOLD
Ted Falcon-Barker. |
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THE DIANA ADVENTURE.
Dorian Ball. (Self) published in Groningen, Netherlands. 1995 - thru Malaysian Historical Salvors, Kuala Lumpur, and Kemper Printers and Publishers, Groningen. Over four million dollars worth of porcelain was raised from the British ship Diana which went down off Malacca on the west Malaysian coast in 1817. Author Dorian Ball spent several years locating and raising the treasure which was eventually sold at auction. Like the raising of the famous Nanking cargo (which Ball worked on), the location and salvage of the Diana's cargo makes for fascinating reading. This is one of the finest books I have read on the whole process of a ‘dream come true' -from the dream to reality of finding the wreck, overcoming bureaucracy, raising the treasure and the sale. The book is exceptionally well produced. Hardcover, dust jacket, 176 pages, full colour. [ps] Out of print but copies may be available from Oceans Enterprises. |
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DIG FOR PIRATE TREASURE
Robert L. Nesmith. |
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DIVING FOR PLEASURE AND TREASURE.
Clay
Blair, Jr.
Published by The World Publishing Company, Ohio, USA. Copyright 1960. Hardcover, dust jacket, 346 pages. Diving round the cost of Yucatan near Cozumel Island. in five parts - The Elusive Monitor; Hunting Sharks and Sunken Gold; Torpedoed by Gossip; His Majesty's Ship Woolworth; The Mists of History. Covers the search and salvage of the Spanish galleon El Matanceros. [ps] ** Identical in content to the British publication: DIVING FOR TREASURE. Clay Blair. First published Great Britain in 1961 by Arthur Barker Ltd. [ps] Hardcover, dust jacket, 240 pages, mono plates. Ebay description:
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DIVING FOR THE GRIFFIN
Charles Daggett and Christopher Shaffer. |
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DIVING FOR TREASURE
Peter Throckmorton. First published in Great Britain in 1977 by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London. Hardcover, dutjacket, square format, 136 pages, mono and colour prints, line drawings. The author is a well-known for his many articls and books on maritime archaeology. This volume covers 'the birth of Maritime Archaeology', the wrecks, techniques of searching and surveying and a host of other interesting chapters more directed to professional survey work than 'treasure hunting'. [ps] |
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUNKEN TREASURE
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FINDERS LOSERS
Jack Slack. First published by Hutchinson & Co,1968. Edition shown (left) published by The Adventurers Club, London, 1968. Hardcover, dustjacket, 174 pages. [ps] This is what I initially wrote: For the life of me, I can't determine if this is a completely imaginative novel, or a novelette based on fact. I think it is the latter, only because of the cover blurb - "Jack Slack was sceptical about sunken wrecks. And one fine day in August 1964, the miracle happened. On the sea-bed they found the remains of a sixteentyh-century shipand with them a vast hoard of coral-encrusted Spoanish piecs-of-eight. It is annopying when the publishers do not make it clear whether a book is fact or fiction. But it looks like an interesting book, and certainly well written and easy to read. But did it all happen? (I am reminded of Alan Robinson's infamous book Treasur Is Not For the Finder). The author Jack Slack contacted me, 2 October 2002. This is what he wrote: This is the first time I've ever heard the notion that my book might not be a true story, albeit I can, for the first time, see from the blurb how you arrived at that conclusion. It was also published by Holt, Rinehardt & Winston in the U.S. and needless to say, the blurb is entirely different, but now I might read that blurb with an entirely new set of eyes.At the time of publication the treasure find has been front page headlines in the UK, U.S. and much of Europe, and I guess the publishers assumed too much. From Jack's website, we have further information: He is also an intrepid adventurer, traveling around the Atlantic and Caribbean on skin-diving and windsurfing expeditions. He has been a champion skin diver and scuba instructor, shark diver as well as an experienced cruising sailor. After college, he lived and cruised in the Bahamas on his sailboat and during this period he discovered a sunken Spanish treasure galleon, the news of which made headlines throughout the world and a cover story in Look magazine. He is the author of Finders Losers the story of the Lucayan Treasure Find first published in the U.S. by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1967, and subsequently published in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson Ltd. The story was later (in the 70's) made into a documentary film released in Europe. During his cruising days he was a friend and diving companion of Jacques Mayol, the famous French skindiver and free dive record holder. Thanks for the info Jack - very much appreciated. |
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FULL FATHOM FIVE
Wrecks of the Spanish Armada. Colin Martin. |
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GOLD FROM THE SEA.
James Taylor. 1942. Captain John Williams and his crew on board the old salvage vessel Claymore recovered more than two million pounds Sterling of gold from the Royal Mail Steamer Niagara off the northern end of New Zealand. She had gone down in June 1940. The principal diver in this remarkable recovery was Australian diver Johnno Johnstone. This is the origional story of the salvage of the gold. Hardcover, dustjacket, 270 pages, several mono plates. Top: Australasian Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1942.
Below: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd. London and Sydney,
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GOLDFINDER
The Story of One Man's Discovery of the Ocean's Richest Secrets. Keith Jessop. Simon and Shuster, Great Britain, 1998. ISBN 0 684 82147 8. Hardcover, dustjacket 418 pages, mono prints. This is the extraordinary true story of the author's salvaging of the richest prize ever recovered from the bottom of the sea - $100 million in gold from the warship HMS Edinburgh, in the Arctic Ocean. It is a remarkable story, a biography of an ordinary kid who overcame all difficulties to pursue a dream and succeed in its achieveement - and in so doing making him a very wealthy man indeed, reportedly the most successful treasure hunter and salvage diver in history. It is not usual to find a treasure hunter who possesses not only the determination to succeed, but also an exceptional ability to write about it. The son of a penniless Yorkshire mill-girl, Jessop may have lacked in basic schooling, but somewhere along the line he learnt how to write exceptionally well - perhaps it was a natural talent. This is a truly incredible book and a wonderful read. Softcover also printed. [ps] Out of print but copies available from Oceans Enterprises. |
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IN SEARCH OF SPANISH TREASURE
A Diver's Story Sydney Wignall. |
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LOST TREASURES IN AUSTRALIA
AND NEW ZEALAND
Kenneth W. Byron. First published in 1964 by Ure Smith Pty Ltd, Sydney. Library of Congress # 648932. Hardcover, dustjacket, 232 pages, mono charts. Covers the vssels: Batavia, Gilt Dragon, Oceans Queen, Lancier, Zuytdorp, General Grant, Union, Katherine Shearer, Hope, Elingamite, Boyd, Waterwitch, Madagascar, Glenmark, Carlisl Castle, Niagara, and the Avoca. Also land based treasurs of Weiberg and Thunderbolt, and the Inverloch Treasur hoax - plus more. A very interesting book. [ps] |
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NIAGARA GOLD
The romantic story of sunken treasure retrieved from record ocean depths in New Zealnd. R.J.Dunn, in collaboration with Diver J.Johnstone. Published by A.H. & A.W.Reed, Wellington, NZ, 1942. Softcover, 51 pages, a few mono prints. The earliest publication on the raising of the gold from the Niagara off the north coast New Zealand in 1941. Several books have been subsequently published on the raising of gold bars from the wreck - see Gold From the Sea, above. A rare publication. [ps] |
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PIECES OF EIGHT.
Recovering the Riches of a Lost Sanish Fleet Kip Wagner, as told to L.B.Taylor. Appears t have been first published in 1966 by Real Eight Company, Inc. Also have indication of publication in 1966 by E. P. Dutton. British edition published by Longmans. Green & Co. Ltd, London, 1967. Hardcover, dustjacket, 222 pages, mono and colour plates throughout. Combines 20th century sleuthing methods with the romance and mystery of the past in this true story of a treasure hunt that has yielded millions. The author, a Florida construction man, picked up the first clues of the treasure fleet from Spain. Occasionally, blackend silver coins were discovered along a Florida beach. His imagination was fired and with the help of his friends he began a long research and search operation that is described in this engrossing book. Their work was arduous and at times dangerous. There were setbacks, grueling underwater ordeals but in time the rewards were sensational-thousands of silver pieces of eight and gold doubloons, silver bars and bullion, gold ingots, gold rings and pendants, priceless Chinese porcelain, a gold necklace and $3 million in treasure recovered by the hard working and persistent men. The story is told with humor, drama and the kind of factual detail any treasure hunter wants to know and that every armchair adventure will find fascinating. It has become one of the true classics of 'treasure literature'. [ps] |
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RICHARD KNIGHT'S TREASURE.
The True Story of His Extraordinary Quest for Captain Kidd's Cache. Glenys Roberts.Published 1986, Viking Penguin. Certainly not a classic, but worth mntioning, although not listed by David Crooks in 'Sunken Treasure Books'. "In November 1978 Richard Knight, an actor temporarily unemployed (thats like being nearly a virgin), in Los Angeles, stumbled across a clue to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the last three hundred years: the whereabouts of the hidden treasure hoard of the legendary seventeenth-century pirate Captain Kidd." I havn't read the book but I dont think he found it. Bit of a letdown I suppose. [ps] |
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SEA DIVER - A Quest for History Under the Sea.
Marion Clayton Link. First published March 1959; second printing June 1961, by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. (Reprint indicates Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited). Hardcover, dust jacket, 334 pages, uncut leading edges, mono prints, maps. Author's husband Ed Link is well known as a pioneer in aviation, and the inventor of the Link trainer. This excellent book is a tale of their own search for sunken treasure in their 61ft converted shrimp trawler off the Florida keys and the Bahamas. [ps] |
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SEVENTY FATHOMS DEEP
with the divers of the Salvage Ship ARTIGLIO David Scott. Faber and Faber Limited, London. 1931. Second Impression 1932. Hardcover, dustjacket, 288 pages, index, mono plates, fold-out chart of coast of Brittany. A superb book, very well written, commencing with a brief history of major salvage operations, and then into more detail with the Italian salvage company 'Sorima' and their salvage vessel Artiglio, working on the wrecks of the Elizabethville and Egypt; includes the tragic explosion that killed several divers and most of the crew. A very important work in terms of early 20th century salvage (1930s). [ps] |
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SHIP
OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA .
Gary Kinder. Little, Brown and Co, USA, 1998. ISBN 0 316 64714 4. (Hardcover). Hardcover, dustjacket, 507 pages, no prints. . In September 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, foundered in a hurricane and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost, at the time the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history. Eventually the women and children were led into lifeboats manned by crewmen and were saved.Recreates the ship's downfall, based on survivors' accounts, and the decade-long pursuit of the wreck. "The bottom was carpeted with gold. Gold everywhere, like a garden. The more you looked, the more you saw gold growing out of everywhere." [ps] |
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SHIPWRECKS, SKINDIVERS AND SUNKEN GOLD
Dave Horner. Illustrations by Jack Woodson. Published 1965 by Dodd, Mead an Co, New York. Hardcover, dustjacket, 240 pags, mono photographs, line drawings. Divided into four parts: Pirates and Freebooters, Treasure Shipwrecks, Historical Shipwrecks, ... and More Shipwrecks. [ps] |
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SPOILS FROM THE SEA
James Taylor. First published 1949, Australasian Publishing Co., Sydney. Hardcover, 240 pages, mono plates throughout. The book centres on the diving experiences of one of Australia's top standard dress divers, J.E. 'Johnno' Johnstone, who was the chief diver on the Niagara gold recovery in 1940 (see above). In this book, author Taylor covers salvage in Australian and Papua New Guinea waters, on such vessels as the Karitane, Casino, Wanaka, and the Niagara of course. [ps] |
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STALIN'S GOLD
The Story of HMS Edinburgh and Its Treasure. by Barrie Penrose. Published by Granada Publishing, UK, 1982. Hardcover, dust jacket, 224 pages, 16-page mono photograph feature. Although not a classic in the true sense, it is nevertheless a collectors item as the book was ordered to be withdrawn and pulped after litigation brough about, I believe, by Keith Jessop who was the leader and true finder of the Edinburugh. It is not know how many copies remained in circulation after the court order was issued. [ps] |
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STALIN'S SILVER
The Sinking of the USS John Barry. John Beasant. Originally published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1995. USA edition - St. Martin' Press, New York. 1999. Hardcover, dustjacket, 216 pages, mono prints, index. From the fly: August 28 1944 off the cost of Oman in the Arabian Sea, three torpedoes fired by German submriners aboard U-859 rain on Amercian merchant ship, the USS John Barry. She was carrying $80 million worth of silver riyals, and $300 million in silver bullion. She went down in 8500 feet. [ps] |
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SUNKEN SHIPS OF TREASURE
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THE
ELINGAMITE AND ITS TREASURE
Shipwreck off the New Zealand coast and the excitement of a modern search for gold. Wade Doak. Hodder & Stoughton. London and Auckland. 1969. From the fly: On a foggy November morning in 1902 the Elingamite, a passenger steamer on the run from Sydney to Auckland, was wrecked with a loss of forty-five lives on one of the lonely Three Kings Islands, north of New Zealand. The drama of the wreck, the tragedy and tension of death and rescue, the treasure that went down with the ship have kept the story fresh in the minds of many people in Australia and New Zealand. Hardcover, dustjacket. 192 pages, mono prints. |
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THE FUNNEL OF GOLD.
The trials of the Spanish Treasure Fleets as they carried home the wealth of the New World in the face of Privateers, Pirates and Perils of the Sea. Mendel Peterson. [ps] |
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THE GOLD OF CHIKITO BURAS
The Epic Story of Deep Sea Diving. Elroy Burns. |
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THE GOLDEN OYSTER
Donald Gordon. Hodder & Stoughton, 1st edition 1967. Hardback with dust jacket, 223 pages. From eBay: An adventure story of treasure hunting and deep sea diving, based on a true story. During WW2 a ship carrying the £6,000,000 'Rommel Treasure' of bullion, jewels and paper currency was sunk of the African coast. The author was involved in the real life search for this treasure and this story is based on his experiences. Not sure if this is a fictional ‘adventure story', or an actual essay on the Rommel Treasure. |
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THE GOLDEN WRECK
Alexander McKee. First published in Great Britain in 1961; in the USA 1962; William Morrow & Co. Hardcover, justjacket, 224 pages, mono prints. This is an indepth tretise on the loss of the ship Royal Charter, near to her destination of Liverpool, from Australia with over three hundred thousand pounds worth of gold from the Australian fields. Her loss in 1859 is regarded as one of the most tragic in maritime history, with over 500 people lost within view of many witnesses on the shores of Anglesey, Wales. No women nor children survived. An excellent book and a valuable record . [ps] |
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THE LOST TREASURE OF
THE CONCEPCION.
The Story of One of the World's Greatest Treasure Finds and Burt Webber - The Man Who Never Gave Up. John Grissim. |
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THE LUTINE TREASURE
The 150-year search for gold in the wreck of the frigate Lutine. S.J.Van der Molen. English translation by James Brockway. Copyright Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Rotterdam (no date, no doubt printed) English translated edition, first published 1970 by Adlard Coles Ltd, London. Hardcover, dustjacket, 268 pages, mono photographs. A lot of money has gone in to locating th Lutine's treasure in the North Sea, (northern English Channel), but to no avail. My good friend, the lat Kelly tarlton had a go at it, with not much luck. [ps] |
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THE NANKING CARGO
Michael Hatcher with Antony Thorncroft and Max de Rham. Published by Hamish Hamilton, London. 1987. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the most exciting underwater adventure of the decade - the finding, raising and selling of the Nanking Cargo. In 1985 Mike Hatcher, ex-Barnado boy, ex-sheep farmer, located a Dutch East Indiaman, the Geldennalsen, which had been wrecked in 1752 in the South China seas. From the ocean bed, Hatcher and his partner, Max de Rham, salvaged its vast cargo of Chinese porcelain and gold. When this haul- known to the world as the Nanking Cargo - was sold at Christies in Amsterdam, it made over ten million pounds, and established Captain Hatcher as the. most controversial and wealthy treasure hunter of the day. Hatcher calls himself a marine archaeologist on a commercial basis; others have named him the new Jacques Cousteau. But he is very far from being a dry academic - more a modern buccaneer. Tough, uncompromising and ruthless, his home is his yacht, The Restless M, from which he and de Rham are hunting an even larger treasure somewhere off the coast of Singapore. Hatcher's many remarkable adventures have not only made him a millionaire. They have transformed the antique trade and set historians at each other's throats. And what has he found on his current expedition? Hardcover, dustjacket, 175 pages, mono and colour prints. [ps] |
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THE PIRATE PRINCE
Discovering the priceless treasures of the sunken ship Whydah. Barry Clifford. |
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THE TOBERMORY TREASURE
The True Story of a Fabulous Armada Galleon. Alison McLeay. |
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THE TREASURE DIVERS GUIDE
Including locations of sunken treasures, techniques of research, search and salvage, wreck identification and submarine archaeology. John Potter. Copyright John Potter, 1960, 1972 - published USA. Robert Hale & Co, London. 1973. ISBN 0 7091 3809 1. Hardcover, dustjacket, 564 pages, mono prints. ‘Including locations of Sunken Treasuree: Techniques of Research, Search, and Identification; and submarine archaeology.' This is a fascinating book. I am sure it has inspired many divers to go out there and seek their fortune - of failing that, to wallow in frustration at what is beyond our grasp. This is a totally revised edition to the original ‘bible' put out in 1961. Its content over some 566 pages is incredible, and covers the whole world. The first ting i did was check out Australia. We get about 18 pages, and a fine coverage it is to. The illusive ‘Mahogany Ship' is mentioned, the Catterthun, a wreck off Long Island, Queensland, and of course all the famous Dutch wrecks off the WA coast. A few off tasmania look interesting - the Hope, Portland and Enchantress. It is a very entertaining book, well written, with fascinating material on major treasure (potential treasure?) Wrecks throughout the world. Well recommended. Softcover, 566 pages, mono photographs, maps (but not of specific locations). [ps-soft] Softcover still in print. Available from Oceans Enterprises. Images: Top - USA; Middle - British; bottom - USA soft
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THE TREASURE GALLEONS.
Clues to Millions in Sunken Gold and Silver. Dave Horner. First published 1971 by Robert Hale & Co., London. (Top image) Published 1971, Dodd, Mead & Co of New York. (Bottom image) Hardcover, dust jacket, 260 pages, mono photographs and line drawings. Includes the Trinidad, Las Cinque Chagas, Nuestra Senora de Atocha, Almiranta, San Jose and other wrecks predominantly off Florida or in the Caribbean. Ebay decsription: Describes the many millions of dollars of gold and valuables that have been lost by the Spanish Galleons over the years and the relatively small amount that's been recovered. This is an exhaustive study of the ships, crews, size and value of their cargo and where they went down. Top image: English edition: Robert Hale & Co. 1971
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THE TREASURES IN THE DEPTHS
Robert Uhl. Copyright 1955 by Prentice-Hall, Inc, New York. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 217 pages, eight central mono plates. I have no idea what this is about but the endpaper map and photographs suggests salvage in the Caribbean using standard dress. |
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THE RAISING OF THE VASA
Roy Saunders. First published 1962 by Oldbourne Book Co. Ltd, London. Hardcover, dust jacket, 88 pages, mono plates throughout. I took aa great interest in the Vasa back in the mid seventies and corresponded with its finder, Anders Franzen in Stockholm. I have yet to see the ship, however. What a remarkable salvage, perhaps standing as still the greatest in the world, even considering the Mary Rose. It covers the history of its loss, the discovery, salvage and commencement of conservation. The content is of historical value even though much has been written about this ship. |
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THE TREASURE DIVERS
Kendall McDonald. Pelham Books, London no date (c. 1976). Hardcover, 246 pages, illustrations, maps and appendices. |
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THE TREASURE DIVERS OF VIGO BAY
John S. Potter, Jr. Doubleday & Co, New York, 1958. Congress Catalog card Numbrer 58-13292 Hardcover, dust jacket, 480 pages, 32 mono plates centrally placed. The adventures of an irrepressible team of young frogmen in search of the world's greatest sunken riches. A Spanish fleet was defeated in Vigo Bay, Spain in 1702, sending many ships to the bottom with millions of dollars worth of gold. From the fly: In a tremendous sea battle in 1702 a Spanish armada carrying millions of dollars worth of gold and silver was sent to the bottom of Vigo Bay, Spain. Two hundred and fifty years later - not averse to having a few million in doubloon s- John Potter decided to use the most modem means of treasure hunting to recover that sunken treasure which has attracted many expeditions in the past. He assembled a group of young skin divers of assorted nationalities, collected every scrap of information on the armada, studied the weather and sea conditions at the time of the battle, and the hunt was on! The ensuing adventures of these treasure divers were sometimes dangerous, sometimes hilarious, often frustrating, but al ways exciting. Here, in pictures and text, is a truly engrossing account of all that happened to the group. There is drama and beauty in the author's almost poetic descriptions of the underwater world; there is the gripping excitement of the treasure hunt itself; and there is the uproarious extracurricular life led by the young team when they went ashore. And, for the reader, there is the overwhelming sense of participating in a real adventure. [ps] |
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THE WRECK HUNTERS. Roger Jefferis and Kendall McDonald.
First published in Great Britain in 1966 by George Harrap & Co. Ltd, London. Hardcover, probably dust jacketed, 254 pages, mono prints. 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] |
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THE WRECK OF THE ALMIRANTA
Peter Earle. THE TREASURE OF THE CONCEPCION.
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THEY FOUND TREASURE
Robert F. Burgess. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York. 1977. ISBN 0 396 07450 2. Hardcover, dustjacket, 245 pages, mono prints, index. From the fly: What is a professional treasure hunter really like? How does he get started? How and where does he find treasure? Here, in a series of personal interviews, some of the world's most successful treasure hunters reveal their secrets: how and why they began, the methods of research they use, their search and salvage techniques - the truths as well as the lies that make up the character of the treasure hunter. Among the men interviewed here are: Art McKee, the father of Florida trea- sure hunters, who found a galleon in his back yard off the Florida Keys. Kip Wagner, whose search for old coins with a surplus metal detector turned up the wreck of a 1715 Spanish treasure ship loaded with tons of silver. Mel Fisher, whose secret excavating device enabled him to discover a "carpet of gold coins" on the ocean bottom, including perfectly struck "Royals" valued at $17,000 each. Robert Stenuit, whose eight-year search in libraries and archives uncovered a maze of clues that led him directly to the treasure-laden wreck of the Girona. Tom Gurr, whose discovery of a 1733 Spanish shipwreck catapulted him to fame and fortune. Then came the strange ending to the good-luck story, with Gurr throwing his treasure back into the sea. . . or did he? The adventures of these and many others provide a surprisingly complete picture of modern treasure hunting. [ps] |
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TREASURE
The Story of the Most Suceaaful and Most Tragic Treasur Hunt of Modern Times. Robert Daley. Random House, New York, 1977. Hardcover, dustjacket, 342 pages, mono prints. "I never dreamed it would be this hard to find".. Mel Fisher. The finding of the treasure on the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. My copy is signed "Find gold, Peter", by Mel Fisher, when I was part of a team that brought him to Melbourrne in the late seventies for an underwater congress. [ps] |
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TREASURES BENEATH THE
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TREASURE DIVING HOLIDAYS.
The Adventures of a Family Under the Sea. Jane and Barney Crile. Collins, 1954. First published in the USA by The Viking Prss in 1954, and by Macmillan in Canada in th same year. Also a paperback by Fontana, published 1956. The story of a family who set out to enjoy life by diving and searching for treasure, teaming up with Art McKee and Mendel Peterson in salvaging the HMS Looe in the Caribbean. [ps-top] |
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TREASURE - how and where to
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TREASURE IS NOT FOR THE FINDER.
Allan Robinson. Illustrations by Frank Pash. Self published 1980. ISBN 0 9594957 0 3. Hardcover, cloth boards, 140 pages, mono drawings. Welcome to what must be one of the worst, most pretentious books ever printed, an expression of the hatred of the author for authority and a means of removing, if at all that was possibble, the huge chip on his shoulder. It is terribly written, shockingly produced, and full of absolute self-serving rubbish. Robinson claimed to have found the Guilt Dragon. He didn't but that didn;t stop him from grabbing a cashe of coins for himself - and even counterfieting coins to sell. A self-accalimed historian, hi lubicrous theories of the discovery of Australia include the concept that Egyption rowed across the Indian Ocean and landed on the Monte Bello Islands and on th north-west of Autralia. How they managed to feed themselves on such a massive journey is conveniently ignored. When prosecuted by the Western Australian government for thieving coins, he went into hiding after stashing his loot. He did several stints in jail for violence including duffing up two policemen. He was not a man to meddle with. All this however is past tense. He died in jail sometime in the early eighties. Some people believe he was a pioneer in diving and badly done by. Some people are idiots. |
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TREASURE HUNTER'S GUIDE
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TREASURE HUNTING AROUND THE WORLD
Thomas Helm Copyright: 1951, Second printing 1960 Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company Hardback, dust jacket 288 pages. "Thomas Helm combines an insatiable lust for adventure with the gifts of a born storyteller to convey the thrill of hunting for treasure around the world on land and beneath the sea. These unique personal sagas are told against the background of the tales of great treasures and their hunters, from Caribbean Buccaneers to twentieth century warriors, as close to home as New York's East River and as far afield as Philippine's Manila Bay. The irresistible drama of the treasure hunt is made more immediate for the reader by the author's notes on diving, gold-finding machines and the new kind of treasure - uranium - so that 'treasure hunting around the world' is a uniquely fascinating experience in an adventure which has intrigued mankind for centuries." |
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TREASURE OF THE ATOCHA
A Four Hundred Million Dollar Archaeological Adventure. R.Duncan Mathewson III. First published in the USA by E.P.Dutton, New York, 1986. (Image top). Sixteen Dramatic Year in Search of the Historic Wreck. Bottom image is British edition, published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1986. [ps] We are referring here to th Spanih galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, lost in 1622, and found by Mel Fisher and his team off Florida 350 years later. |
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TREASURES OF THE DEEP
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Captain Mike Hatcher. Hugh Edwards. Harper Collins, Australia, 2000. ISBN 0 7322 5885 5. The name Hatcher may not be so well remembered, but mention the Nanking Cargo to a diver and you will see an immediate interest. But the Nanking Cargo of exquisite porcelain is only one of Hatcher's incredible recoveries. This excellent book by Perth-based award-winning author Hugh Edwards tells of Hatcher' discoveries, his battles with governments and bureaucracies, and his life threatening experiences in Asian waters. "His story is one of guts and determination in the face of adversity, and of daring, skill and fantastic rewards". Softcover, 280 pages, colour plates. [ps] Out of print but available from Oceans Enterprises. |
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TREASURE TALES
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TREASURE UNDER THE SEA. N.B.Stirling.
'A fascinating ccount of treasures lost and found, from Sir Francis Drake's abandonement of forty-five tons of silver and gold to thew jettisonong of millions of dollars during World War 2.' Published by Doubleday & Co, Garden City, New York, 1957. Indicates also copyright Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1956. Hardcover, dustjacket, 353 pages, no photographs. Five sections: Treasure on a Grand Scale; Drake's Forty Five Tons of Silver; The Treasure of the Puritan Pirates; Gold Four hundred feet Down; Operation Sunken Peso; The Miser Sea - The Grovenor, the Duke's Galleon. [ps] |
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TREASURE SEEKERS
A Chronicle of Fortunes Lost and Hidden and the Efforts made to Salvage Them. Hans Roden. Translated by Frances Hogarth-Gaute. First published under the title 'Schatzsucher', copyright 1963 by Koehlers Verlagsgesllshaft, Jugenheim/Bergstresse. English translated edition, published 1966by George G. Harrap & Co., London. Hardcover, dustjacket, 208 pages, mono maps, no phoptographs. In twenty chapters covers a number of 'lost treasures' including that of Captain Kidd, the Vigo galeons, the Lutine, the Egypt, Romel's treasures. [ps] |
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TREASURE-TROVE, PIRATE'S GOLD
Gordon Cooper. First published in 1951 by Wilfred Funk, Inc. New York. Hardcover, probably with a dust jacket, 186 pages, mono prints. This is not all maritime related. In fact, an excellent chapter exists on the 'Hidden Hoardes of the Incas and Aztcs'. Covers also Europe's buried treasure, and Africa's 'mysterious cachs'. The final chaptr is 'Where the Lost Ship's Lie'. The famed (Australian) Lasser's lost gold field is indicated on the map but I couldn't find reference in the text on a casual glance. |
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TREASURES OF THE DEEP
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Captain Mike Hatcher. Hugh Edwards. Harper Collins Publisher , Australia. 2000. ISBN 0 7322 5885 5. Softcover, 279 pages, mono and colour prints. The name Hatcher may not be so well remembered, but mention the Nanking Cargo to a diver and you will see an immediate interest. But the Nanking Cargo of exquisite porcelain is only one of Hatcher's incredible recoveries. This excellent book by Perth-based award-winning author Hugh Edwards tells of Hatcher' discoveries, his battles with governments and bureaucracies, and his life threatening experiences in Asian waters. "His story is one of guts and determination in the face of adversity, and of daring, skill and fantastic rewards". Softcover, 280 pages, colour plates. Currently available from Oceans Enterprises [ps] |
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UNDERSEA TREASURES.
National Geographic Society. Published 1974. Hardcover, dustjacket. Chapter contents include: Wrecks and Riches: The Lure Below; Pioneers in the Search for Gold; Treasure Hunting: The Amateurs; Treasure Hunting: The Professionals; Archeology in the Old World Waters; Diving for New World Wrecks; Nature's jewels Beneath the Sea; Future Challenges, Lost Fortunes. [ps] |
