Lost voyages : two centuries of shipwrecks in the approaches to New York
Bradley Sheard
ISBN:
9781881652175
Jaar:
�1998
Kwaliteit:
Als nieuw
Uitgever:
New York : Aqua Quest Publications, �1998.
Beschrijving:
216 pages : illustrations (some color) ;Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207) and index.
Inhoudelijke beschrijving:
This is the story of shipwrecks, and of the human dramas played out in the throes of howling winter nor'easters, frozen rigging, tremendous seas, wrenching collisions, burning oil and exploding torpedoes. It is a story fraught with pathos and heroism, death and survival. It is also the story of the evolution of ships and shipping, for in the approaches to New York lie the sunken hulks of hundreds of ships of every era and type, providing time capsules of the world's maritime history for the last two centuries. Wooden warships from the days of the Revolution, coastal schooners, once majestic ships from the great days of sail, tramp steamers, passenger liners like the Blue Riband winner SS Oregon (1886) and the luxurious Andrea Doria (1954), U-boats and their victims in World War I and II, armored cruisers and revenue cutters, rumrunners, and modern victims of collisions all share a haunting grave beneath the cold Atlantic. trefwoorden: Shipwrecks New York Region.., Shipwrecks.
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