SINKINGS, SALVAGES AND SHIPWRECKS by Robert F. Burgess

SINKINGS, SALVAGES AND SHIPWRECKS
ISBN: 0595006329

"This collection of true tales cannot fail to fascinate those who love the sea and stand in awe of its power." —Publishers Weekly. What was it like to have been aboard a doomed treasure ship destroyed by hurricane on the Florida coast. . . and then, 255 years later, to be the first to find the treasure?!? Or to walk the sunken streets of Port Royal and hear the bell toll in the tower? In this book you, the reader, get to experience it all! Throughout marine history certain marine disasters, salvage efforts, or shipwrecks have stood out above all the others. This book and its rare photographs tell you why they were unusual. They will endure as long as do the mysteries of the sea themselves such as the odd disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, or the strange tale of the Mary Celeste. They all live again as Robert Burgess puts you into these exciting true sea tales in an unforgettable way. 205 pages. Paperback 7.5 x 9.25-inches ©2000 Published by iUniverse.com.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. The Archaeology of Shipwrecks
2. Great Salvage Feats
3. The Missing Monitor
4. The Doomed Armada
5. Treasure Trove
6. Seventeen Minutes to Doomsday
7. Salvaging The City Beneath the Sea
8. The Saga of Silver Shoals
9. Legions of Lost Ships
10. The Fate of Castaways
11. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes and Rivers
12. Famous Marine Disasters
13. The Mystery of the Deadly Bermuda Triangle
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY

FROM THE BOOK:

"When the wind blows force four or better along the stormy, bleak Outer Banks at Cape Hatteras, then let the sailor beware, for here, off the dreaded Diamond Shoals, where the warm Gulf Stream collides in awesome fury with the cold North Atlantic, "the Lord maketh a deep to boil like a pot." Seafaring men call it the Graveyard of the Atlantic, and it is aptly named, for the miles of towering waves that shoot their spume a hundred feet into the air, the innumerable swirling, sucking maelstrom currents, and the multitude of fanglike shifting sandbars along the entire North Carolina coast have for more than four centuries snared countless ships and doomed hundreds of unwary mariners. Sailing ship, steamships, freighters, tankers, pleasure boats - the angry ocean has cast all up indiscriminately on the shoals where their rusty remains stand as mute reminders to mariners -'Stay clear of Hatteras.'"

A REVIEW:

"This collection of true tales cannot fail to fascinate those who love the sea and stand in awe of its power."
—Publishers Weekly