"Seventy-one United States Navy destroyers were lost in the Second World War, sixty of them in battle, the other eleven to weather or mines. These 1000-ton vessels were fast, highly armed, and designed to seek out the enemy--a brave and dangerous task. In this meticulously resea…
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"There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a nation's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundla…
"There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a nation's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundla…
"There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a nation's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundla…
A chronicle of recent successful attempts to salvage a ship that sank in 1857 carrying gold from the rich California mines follows a group of adventurers who took great risks to reap billions in sunken treasure.
Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America, as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it.
Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America, as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it.
Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America, as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it.
A chronicle of recent successful attempts to salvage a ship that sank in 1857 carrying gold from the rich California mines follows a group of adventurers who took great risks to reap billions in sunken treasure.
Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America, as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it.
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by Boxer, C. R., (Charles Ralph), Brito, Bernardo Gomes de
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These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and abou…