Great British Shipwrecks

Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849950770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Shipwrecks written by Rod Macdonald and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 37 classic shipwrecks around the UK - with full history, photos and illustration of each by renowned marine artist

Author : Richard Larn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwrecks of Great Britain and Ireland written by Richard Larn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Weller
Publisher : Ebsco Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys written by Robert Weller and published by Ebsco Media. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ron Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904445890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Shipwreck Guide written by Ron Young and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sam Willis
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782065229
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwreck written by Sam Willis and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jim Kennard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780940741027
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario written by Jim Kennard and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kendall McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780946020126
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Wrecks written by Kendall McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Bennet Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreckers written by Henry Bennet Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bob Baird
Publisher : Whittles Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781904445746
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwrecks of the Forth and Tay written by Bob Baird and published by Whittles Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses

Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849950954
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea written by Rod Macdonald and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.