Lost Voyages - Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York
Year: 1998 Language: english Author: Sheard B. Genre: History Publisher: Aqua Quest Publications ISBN: 1881652173 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 224 Description: This highly illustrated volume traces the evolution of shipping through the drama of shipwrecks. Sheard, whose first book, Beyond Sportdiving, chronicled the exploration of East Coast shipwrecks lying beyond the accepted depth limits of sport diving, here provides a highly readable account of the evolution of oceangoing ships, the tragedy of shipwrecks, and the maritime history of the region encompassing the approaches to New York Harbor. He has dived and photographed most of the wrecks described, and the photographs here are keyed to line drawings he has rendered of many of the wrecks as they lie today. This work in no way claims to chronicle every shipwreck in the region?such a task would be virtually impossible because of the sheer number of wrecks in these waters?but it is an entertaining account that should appeal to naval and other military buffs, scuba divers, maritime history aficionados, sailors, and readers of dramatic adventure stories.? Additional info: In one of the most comprehensive and insightful views of shipping history in the Atlantic ever assembled, Sheard's mastery of detail is coupled with an innate sense of the big picture to create the definitive lost-ship chronicle. With Titanic mania showing no real sign of subsiding, Sheard tackles all the wrecks from colonial times to the present off New York Harbor (one map shows every wreck--hundreds of them--off Long Island.) What's more, he does it with a breezy but serious style, facts, charts, and maps, maps, and more maps. This information is colorful, insightful, and sometimes surprising (for instance, more U-boats than expected sank off the coast of New York), and when it is not surprising
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Lost Voyages - Two Centuries of Shipwrecks in the Approaches to New York
Language: english
Author: Sheard B.
Genre: History
Publisher: Aqua Quest Publications
ISBN: 1881652173
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 224
Description: This highly illustrated volume traces the evolution of shipping through the drama of shipwrecks. Sheard, whose first book, Beyond Sportdiving, chronicled the exploration of East Coast shipwrecks lying beyond the accepted depth limits of sport diving, here provides a highly readable account of the evolution of oceangoing ships, the tragedy of shipwrecks, and the maritime history of the region encompassing the approaches to New York Harbor. He has dived and photographed most of the wrecks described, and the photographs here are keyed to line drawings he has rendered of many of the wrecks as they lie today. This work in no way claims to chronicle every shipwreck in the region?such a task would be virtually impossible because of the sheer number of wrecks in these waters?but it is an entertaining account that should appeal to naval and other military buffs, scuba divers, maritime history aficionados, sailors, and readers of dramatic adventure stories.?
Additional info: In one of the most comprehensive and insightful views of shipping history in the Atlantic ever assembled, Sheard's mastery of detail is coupled with an innate sense of the big picture to create the definitive lost-ship chronicle. With Titanic mania showing no real sign of subsiding, Sheard tackles all the wrecks from colonial times to the present off New York Harbor (one map shows every wreck--hundreds of them--off Long Island.) What's more, he does it with a breezy but serious style, facts, charts, and maps, maps, and more maps. This information is colorful, insightful, and sometimes surprising (for instance, more U-boats than expected sank off the coast of New York), and when it is not surprising
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