Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks
Author | : Bruce D. Berman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bruce D. Berman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : W. Craig Gaines |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807134245 |
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Author | : Victoria Sandz |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2006-10-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 078642902X |
From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
Author | : David Ritchie |
Publisher | : Facts on File |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780816040568 |
From cowardly captains and deadly icebergs to mutinies and nuclear submarine wrecks, this work chronicles the world's most amazing maritime disasters. Wrecks like those of the Titanic and Lusitana are the stuff of legends, but what about the others throughout history?
Author | : Matthew Lawrence |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625853335 |
Beneath the churning surface of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary rest the bones of shipwrecks and sailors alike. Massachusetts' ports connected its citizens to the world, and the number of merchant and fishing vessels grew alongside the nation's development. Hundreds of ships sank on the trade routes and fishing grounds between Cape Cod and Cape Ann. Their stories are waiting to be uncovered--from the ill-fated steamship Portland to collided schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary and the burned dragger Joffre. Join historian John Galluzzo and maritime archaeologists Matthew Lawrence and Deborah Marx as they dive in to investigate the sunken vessels and captivating history of New England's only national marine sanctuary.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evert E. Tornfelt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Marine accidents |
ISBN | : |
This comprehensive list of shipwrecks occurring in Alaskan waters from 1741 to the pre-World War II era, is arranged by Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region lease-sale planning area (for oil and gas exploration), and includes data on vessel name and type, date, location and cause of wreck, and a historic context of the phenomenon.
Author | : To Come |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493083236 |
History and folklore abound in these twenty-five true stories about lost ships along North Carolina's storm-washed Outer Banks. Learn the haunting tales of wrecked vessels such as the steam packet Pulaski in 1838, the Pocahantas in 1862, the Virginia in 1900 and, of course, the ongoing search for the pirate ship of Blackbeard, among many others.
Author | : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Coast changes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alpheus Chewning |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2008-09-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1625843887 |
The waters of coastal Virginia swirl with tales both tragic and heroic. Join Virginia Beach native Alpheus Chewning as he recounts harrowing stories of storms at sea, loss of life and fortune and the heroism of the United States Life-Saving Service. Marvel at the blunders and bungles that have plagued the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and learn about the U-boats that lurked off the coast during World War II. Extensively researched and filled with fascinating details, Virginia Beach Shipwrecks is a treasure for sea lovers of all ages.