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Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 1849950776
37 classic shipwrecks around the UK - with full history, photos and illustration of each by renowned marine artist
Author : Richard Larn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039802876
Author : Jim Kennard,Roland Stevens,Roger Pawlowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : 0940741024
Documents the stories of a number of sunken vessels on the United States territory in Lake Ontario, among them the steamer Ellsworth, the St. Peter, the Homer Warren, the schooner Etta Belle, the Coast Guard cable boat CG-56022, the schooner William Elgin, the Orcadian, the steamer Samuel F. Hodge, the W.Y. Emery, the British warship Ontario, the schooner C. Reeve, the Queen of the Lakes, the schooner Atlas, the Ocean Wave, the steamer Roberval, the U.S. Air Force C-45, the schooner Three Brothers, the steamship Nisbet Grammer, the steamship Bay State, the schooner Royal Albert, the sloop Washington, and the schooner Hartford. Appendices look at three particular locations: Ford Shoals, Mexico Bay, and the lake near Oswego.
Author : Andrew C A Jampoler
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513270
On August 25, 1833, the British convict ship Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children along with a crew of thirteen, left London for a convict colony in New South Wales. Less than a week later, all but three died when a savage storm battered their ship to pieces on the beach at Boulogne--in sight of hundreds of horrified onlookers. Inexplicably, the captain, John Hunter, had refused offers of aid from the shore. Sensational news coverage of the calamity prompted an Admiralty investigation to find out who was responsible. The suspicion was that Hunter and the surgeon aboard rejected assistance because they feared the women would escape custody. Some blamed the doctor’s wife because she had refused to go ashore in the same boat with the convicts so no boat was launched. Colorfully set in the political and social context of early 19th century Great Britain, this account of the shipwreck is peopled with a fascinating cast of characters that includes John Wilks, the Paris correspondent of a London newspaper whose reporting triggered public emotions; Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary; William Hamilton, the British consul who led the investigation; Sarah Austin, a British expatriate whose heroism the night of the wreck merits an award; and a Prussian prince. Drawing from government records in England, Scotland, and France, and from contemporary reports, Andrew Jampoler spins a memorable sea tale that is entirely true yet rivals the best of fiction. Readers will find this latest addition to his growing body of works firmly cements Jampoler’s reputation as a master storyteller.
Author : Robert Weller
Publisher : Ebsco Media
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001804278
Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782065227
Shipwrecks have captured our imagination for centuries. Here acclaimed historian Sam Willis traces the astonishing tales of ships that have met with disastrous ends, along with the ensuing acts of courage, moments of sacrifice and episodes of villainy that inevitably occurred in the extreme conditions. Many were freak accidents, and their circumstances so extraordinary that they inspired literature: the ramming of the Essex by a sperm whale was immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Some symbolize colossal human tragedy: including the legendary Titanic whose maiden voyage famously went from pleasure cruise to epic catastrophe. From the Kyrenia ship of 300 BC to the Mary Rose, through to the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000, this is a thrilling work of narrative history from one of our most talented young historians.
Author : Kendall McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Armoured vessels
ISBN : 0946020124
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Shipping
ISBN : UOM:39015021741718
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 1849950954
The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya and Thailand. He was to be proved tragically wrong. Denuded of aircraft cover, Force Z was left disastrously exposed to air attack. Within eight days of their arrival at Singapore both ships were sunk with huge loss of life in a mass attack by 85 Japanese bombers. It was the Royal Navy's greatest loss in a single engagement and the first time a modern battleship had been sunk by air power. With the naval force at the bottom of the sea, and the RAF almost wiped out in Malaya on day one, Singapore was left with no air or sea protection and fell two months later. This is the first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels and grippingly narrates a summary of the Japanese threat, Fortress Singapore and the subsequent Japanese invasion. Today the wrecks of these two famous British warships lie on the bottom of the South China Sea, 200 miles north of Singapore and 50 miles offshore. The author was invited as a civilian expert on a military expedition to dive and survey these wrecks and now, for the first time, the wrecks are revealed as they are today. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned artist's illustrations of the wrecks, each one is looked at in detail. The story of the loss of these two ships, and of the sacrifice of the men who served in them, is remembered. This has been a personal quest for the author whose grandfather was serving in Singapore when Force Z arrived. His wife and the author's father and two brothers were among the last civilians evacuated from Singapore before the final siege. His grandfather was taken into internment at Changi Gaol by the Japanese and suffered there for three years until Singapore was reoccupied by the British in1945. Had the Fall of Singapore not happened the way it did the author would not be here to write this truly remarkable book.
Author : Bob Baird
Publisher : Whittles Pub
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1904445748
A meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses
Author : Ron Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1904445896
This is a comprehensive guide that includes the precise position and characteristics of 285 wrecks between Whitby and Berwick - from fishing boats to submarines and steamers to warships - that were lost or sunk from the 1850s onwards.
Author : Paul Carroll
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1770705449
Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage Award The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction , but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87 years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the transition to become a "Laker," the eventful storm, the search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the controversy over how she should be protected.
Author : Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789146202
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and significance, showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, and shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but he also covers shipwrecks in culture and maritime archaeology, their appeal to treasure hunters, and their environmental impacts. Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious effect on global trade.
Author : Richard Jones
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399008013
When you think of a shipwreck, what image springs to mind? A tall sailing ship on the rocks, or perhaps the sinking Titanic surrounded by lifeboats? Historian Richard M. Jones has put together 50 stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous and in some cases tragic ships in the whole of history. When did two liners collide and lead to one of the greatest rescues in history? How did a Scotsman become an American hero against his own country? Which warship sank with gold bullion on board during the Second World War? This book tells the story of these fascinating cases plus many more, explores the largest shipwrecks, the treasure wrecks and the ones that are talked about still as the most famous. Starting at the tiny island of Alderney in 1592, we take a journey through history, through the First and Second World Wars, into the age of the passenger ferry and finally to the modern day migrant issues in the Mediterranean Sea. Never before have these fifty wrecks come together in a book that really brings home to the reader just how many lost vessels there are, how deadly many can be and what this teaches us today about our own history.
Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Session laws
ISBN : UOM:35112103426575