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Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This lavishly illustrated profile of 18 of the greatest shipwrecks of our century is filled with intriguing accounts of lost treasure, dramatic sinkings, heroic feats of survival, and technically sophisticated salvage operations. 160 photos, many in color. 18 maps.
Author : Robert F. Marx
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781552978726
The vast hidden world of sunken treasure. With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks. Chapters include: The classical world Scandinavian shipwrecks The age of discovery The Spanish galleons Bermuda, graveyard of ships Privateers, pirates and mutineers Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others) Port Royal: The sunken city The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success. Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.
Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2007-01-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781861762504
The seas of northern Europe are probably the most heavily traveled in recent millennia, and there are literally thousands of wrecks lying in what is relatively shallow water. Among these a significant proportion may be regarded as high-value--either in financial terms or because of their potential contribution to historical knowledge--but few have been precisely located. This book identifies 500 such sites, giving concise details of ship, voyage, cargo and current state of knowledge. This represents a large proportion of the most valuable wrecks in the designated area. The book is also introduced by twenty detailed case-studies of wrecks chosen to illustrate the range of problems--and rewards--likely to be encountered by anyone diving on these sites. These include a variety of ship types, from a Roman trading vessel to a German liner sunk in the Baltic by the Russians in 1945. Well written and heavily illustrated, this book is both a practical guide for divers and an entertainment for armchair adventurers.
Author : Tommy Thompson
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780871137326
In more than 250 photographs, drawings, and illustrations, "America's Lost Treasure" chronicles the sinking and recovery of the "Central America", the subject of "The New York Times" bestseller "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea".
Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1426208146
Presents a history of England from the departure of Roman forces in 450 A.D. to the Norman invasion of 1066, focusing on the gold and silver artifacts of the Staffordshire Hoard found in 2009 to highlight the events and art of the period.
Author : Gary Kinder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 155584796X
“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
Author : Dave Horner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493064878
Based on the exceptional and fascinating eyewitness account of a seventeenth-century Spanish padre, Dave Horner's Shipwreck is the absorbing and true story of two immense galleons that were lost (along with hundreds of passengers and millions of pesos in treasure) to disasters at sea. Shipwreck is an extraordinary literary adventure which interweaves accounts of the many attempts throughout the past three centuries to recover the sunken treasure, including the recent discovery and salvage of one of the galleons by Dave Horner himself. Shipwreck is an outstanding history of true adventure on the high seas, past and present, which is wonderfully enhanced for the reader with 50 photographic illustrations, six maps, four line drawings, seven appendices, as well as bibliographies of archival sources, institutions, original documents or primary works, and a general listing of thematically appropriate titles for further suggested readings.
Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781564585998
This is a comprehensive illustrated guide to ships lost at sea and the treasures they have yielded, from Roman ships laden with bronze statues to the gold-carrying blockade runners of World War II.
Author : John Wright
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 9781854799081
Covers every important treasure ship lost, and sometimes found, from the 16th century onwards. The book is organized into four geographical sections: Europe, Australasia, the Americas and Africa, with the ships arranged alphabetically by name within each section.
Author : Graham Harris
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1459502604
Civil engineers Graham Harris and Les MacPhie have spent over a decade investigating the enigma of Nova Scotia's Oak Island. In this new edition of their book, they set out the previously unknown story of how complex and expensive engineering work was undertaken to create an elaborate flood tunnel on the island. Built to frustrate treasure seekers attempting to get at the valuables buried decades earlier at the bottom of the island's Money Pit, the tunnel has admirably served its purpose. It has ensured that all efforts up to now to recover the treasure have been unsuccessful. Oak Island poses two different challenges for treasure seekers. There is a deep mine shaft, at the bottom of which the treasure lies. The authors offer evidence that this treasure came from the wreck of a Spanish galleon in the seventeenth century. Even more mystifying than the mine shaft is the complex tunnel which links it to the ocean. Harris and MacPhie have determined that the project would have required a labour force of over 100 men to supplement a small force of experienced miners. The work would have taken almost two years to complete. In new chapters written for this edition, they present the evidence they have discovered in British military history records which shows who commanded this force, how it reached Nova Scotia, and when the work was carried out. The new facts and insights offered in this book are a startling and convincing addition to the history of Oak Island.