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Author: John Wright Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 9781854799081 Category : Shipwrecks Languages : en Pages : 248
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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: John Wright Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 9781854799081 Category : Shipwrecks Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
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: Victoria Sandz Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 078642902X Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 241
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From aerial survey to zoology, Part I of this two-part encyclopedia covers all aspects of underwater archeology, treasure hunting and salvaging. For example, entries are included for different types of artifacts, notable treasure hunters, the various salvaging equipment, and techniques in mapping and excavating. Part II covers the shipwrecks themselves, dividing them into 13 geographical categories. Beginning with the northernmost category (Canada) and ending with the southernmost (South America), every known shipwreck--both identified and unidentified--receives an entry in alphabetical order under its appropriate geographical category. Entries are by name, such as Andrea Gail, Titanic, and Queen Ann's Revenge. Unidentified is used when a shipwreck's name remains unknown. Entries give the nationality (e.g., Spanish, British, American), type (schooner, frigate, brig are three), function (examples: slave transportation, piracy, fishing), location and history of the shipwreck.
Author: Robert F. Marx Publisher: Firefly Books ISBN: 9781552978726 Category : Shipwrecks Languages : en Pages : 126
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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: W. Craig GAINES Publisher: ISBN: 9781549592584 Category : Languages : en Pages : 268
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This work is an encyclopedia of lost treasures, lost mines, and sunken treasure ships of the American Civil War. It has been revised from the previous 1999 edition with additional information the author has collected.
Author: Gail Gibbons Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0064460975 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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A rotting hull of a ship...lost gold...coins...gems...Sunken Treasure! Today treasure hunting is a big business. Searchers use metal detectors and sonar to locate treasure on the ocean floor. Divers use high-powered machinery to uncover objects buried in the sand and to raise them to the surface. And more than just treasures are discovered. A whole window into the past is opened up. A salvage can take months or even years. But it's worth it!
Author: W. Craig Gaines Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807134245 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
Author: Russ Faerber Publisher: Macmillan Education AU ISBN: 1420265598 Category : Readers Languages : en Pages : 14
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Have you ever wanted to find treasure? Read about people who search for hidden treasures for a living.Contents:IntroductionShips from Long AgoLooking for ShipwrecksGetting Treasure to the SurfaceLucky or UnluckyGlossaryIndexComprehension Skill: SequencingText Type: Explanation
Author: Robert F. Marx Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 200
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Tells the stories behind the discoveries of famous shipwrecks from around the world, introducing some of the people who have made the salvage of shipwrecks their life's work, describing ancient and modern underwater exploration techniques, and looking at many of the valuable artifacts that have been pulled from the deep.
Author: J Hutton Pulitzer Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781492128830 Category : Languages : en Pages : 386
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The definitive Encyclopedia of Treasure Symbols has been published. From the halls of the Cacheology Society of America and the Cacheology Society and Institute of the United Kingdom comes the definitive work on decoding ancient symbols to locate Lost Treasures. Originally this volume of protected information was the course materials for becoming a Certified Cacheologist, but now this highly valuable treasure trove of knowledge is being made available to amateur treasure hunters and the treasure hunting and treasure legend loving public at large.
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