Download or read book Shipwrecks Near Wabasso Beach East Coast of Florida written by Robert Weller and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Florida written by Steven D Singer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 2,100 shipwrecks from the 16th century to the present; the most comprehensive listing now available. Wrecks are arranged primarily by geographical section of the state. Within sections, wrecks are arranged chronologically. Extensive and heavily illustrated appendices offer a wealth of information on topics of interest to divers and researchers alike. A companion volume, More Shipwrecks of Florida, is now available from Pineapple Press.
Download or read book Florida s Shipwrecks written by Michael Barnette and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships that have met their fates in Florida waters. Potentially more than 5,000 shipwrecks reside off Florida's 1,200 miles of coastline, with hundreds more lost in the state's interior rivers. In and of itself, the Florida Keys archipelago, consisting of approximately 1,700 islands stretching 200 miles, is littered with the remains of close to 1,000 shipwrecks. In fact, many features of the Florida Keys were named after various shipwreck events, such as Fowey Rocks, which earned its name after the 1748 wrecking of the British warship HMS Fowey, and Alligator Reef, where the schooner USS Alligator met her demise in 1822. Florida's Shipwrecks utilizes captivating images to illustrate dramatic stories of danger and peril at sea, introducing readers to a fascinating cross-section of Florida's shipwreck history.
Download or read book More Shipwrecks of Florida written by Steven Danforth Singer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Shipwrecks of Florida is a sequel to Shipwrecks of Florida, 2nd edition. This new book with all new content adds over 1,500 shipwrecks to the guide, and includes additional information on hundreds of previously listed shipwrecks, all organized by year. It also includes more GPS coordinates, as well as stories of pirates and privateers, wreckers, and buried and sunken treasure.
Download or read book Thirty Florida Shipwrecks written by Kevin M McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunken treasure, cannibalism, prison ships, Nazi submarines, the Bermuda triangle—all are tied into the lore of shipwrecks along Florida's coasts. There are as many shipwreck stories as there are thousands of Florida shipwrecks. This book offers thirty of the most interesting of them—from the tale of young Fontaneda, who wrecked in 1545 and was held captive by Indians for 17 years, to the story of the Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which was sunk off Key Largo in 1987 to provide an artificial reef and diving site. In between there is the Atocha, flagship of a Spanish treasure fleet, which sank in a hurricane in September 1622 and was found, along with its $100 million worth of gold and silver, by Mel Fisher in July of 1985. Each shipwreck story has a map pinpointing its location and a full-color illustration by renowned artist William L. Trotter. There is an extensive bibliography and a foreword by Florida state underwater archaeologist Roger Smith.
Download or read book The Winter Beach Salvage Camp written by Douglas Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the worst maritime disasters in Florida's history occurred in 1715 when the Spanish Plate Fleet, bound for Spain, was trapped in a hurricane that dashed almost all of the ships against the beaches along the central east coast of the state. Spain salvaged what they could for several years before closing down operations. Today, one of the central salvage camp locations from the Spanish effort can be found where Florida has established the McLarty Shipwreck Museum on the beach just south of Sebastian Inlet.The Spaniards constructed several camps along the fifty miles of coast where the ships sank, the primary one being at the McLarty Museum site on the northern extent of the wreckage trail. However, Douglas R. Armstrong located another salvage camp, miles to the south near Wabasso where he performed an archaeological rescue survey in the late 1980's just as the site was being destroyed by homebuilders. "The Winter Beach Salvage Camp" is the report Douglas R. Armstrong prepared for Florida's Bureau of Archaeological Research in regards to his findings at that location, which was occupied by the Spanish during the original salvage operation from 1715 through 1716, as well as by British soldiers later on. The British were undoubtedly "fishing" on the wrecks themselves, looking for treasure. Armstrong's work contains a complete recount of his discoveries, by item, along with photos and maps.As a bonus, this edition also contains the first-ever publication of Douglas Armstrong's 1990 annual report to the state for the Cannon Wreck site, as it was being excavated by Steve Shouppe's group, Galleon Research. This addendum is a photocopy of the daily log sheets, along with the site files and drawings of recovered artifacts. The addendum also contains the site map as prepared by Armstrong along with a rectified section set in geographic grid coordinates suitable for use with GPS receivers.
Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Jamin Wells and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Jamin Wells shows that disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the American beach had become the summer encampment of presidents, a common destination for millions of citizens, and the site of rapidly growing beachfront communities. Shipwrecked tells the story of this epic transformation, arguing that coastal shipwrecks themselves changed how Americans viewed, used, and inhabited the shoreline. Drawing on a broad range of archival material--including logbooks, court cases, personal papers, government records, and cultural ephemera--Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial state and private investment alongshore, reshape popular ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.
Download or read book Shipwrecks and Submerged Cultural Resources In and Around Pensacola Florida written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maritime Education and Research Society (MERS) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose aims and objectives are to research and to advance education and training in the techniques pertaining to the study of various maritime fields of endeavor for the benefit of the public. This MERS Research Publication No. 003 (MRP 003) researches and catalogs the ships, aircraft and other items of interest that now mostly rest underwater along Florida's Gulf Shores from Perdido Bay to Cape San Blas - across six Florida counties. The book is in chronological order, beginning with the possible wreck of some Spanish ships in 1533 "between Pensacola and Mobile Bay" to the present. This research describes more than 700 individual seafaring vessels and aircraft wrecks as well as hundreds of other items used in making artificial reefs - automobile hulks, reef balls, bridge rubble, dismantled oil rigs, etc.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Florida Shipwrecks Volume I written by Michael C. Barnette and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foremost authority on Florida shipwrecks and maritime history indexes more than 1,300 Atlantic coast shipwrecks and artificial reefs, and provides 330 archival and underwater images, and 1,000 Atlantic coast shipwreck coordinates.
Download or read book Famous Shipwrecks of the Florida Keys written by Robert Weller and published by Ebsco Media. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book S S Inchulva written by Linda Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. S. Inchulva A Florida Shipwreck Rediscovered Lost in a hurricane in 1903, the S. S. Inchulva was hidden under the surface of the water a short distance from Florida's shore. For decades, divers visited the mysterious wreck and townspeople told stories about the ghost ship, but the stories varied and the ship's true origin and identity were not known. A ten-year research project turned up a great deal of history and facts about the popular shipwreck. In the 1990's, a state marker with a plaque telling the true history of the vessel was erected near the wreck's site for visitors to enjoy. A decade passed before a bizarre set of twists and turns in January 2002 brought the ship's history to life. A British captain, searching for information about his missing grandfather, connected his long-lost relative with this ship after finding a bundle of letters, which had been secretly hidden away in a trunk for nearly a century. The letters written by the man's grandfather opened a window into the family's past and revealed the name of the missing forefather's ship; but, unfortunately, no clue was revealed as to where or how the ship perished or what had become of the grandfather. The letters intrigued the grandson, a professional seaman himself, and peaked his interest enough to begin a search and investigation to find out more. The captain spent a year digging for information. He searched books, libraries and museums. He came up with some interesting information and some fascinating ideas of his own about the ship's wreck. By chance, a few weeks after the letters turned up in England, an underwater discovery was made near the site where the ship wrecked in Florida. Amazingly, the findings uncovered at the bottom of the ocean linked to the grandson's discovery in the trunk. The seafloor findings also connected to the concerns written about in letters by the grandfather. This story is something more human than historical facts and figures. It is a story that sheds a little light on life at sea in the early 1900's and on the days leading up to the last voyage of the Inchulva. This story tells of the ship's crew and about the nine men whose lives were so abruptly taken on the day of the ship's demise. It is also a tale of a town landmark and an underwater treasure, of which many of the city's families have grown fond over the decades. When the S. S. Inchulva wrecked September 11, 1903, the tragedy touched many lives at the time. But, the wreck would continue to make an impact straight through to present day on the city where it crashed ashore so long ago.
Download or read book Virginia Beach Shipwrecks written by Alpheus Chewning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The waters of coastal Virginia swirl with tales both tragic and heroic. Join Virginia Beach native Alpheus Chewning as he recounts harrowing stories of storms at sea, loss of life and fortune and the heroism of the United States Life-Saving Service. Marvel at the blunders and bungles that have plagued the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and learn about the U-boats that lurked off the coast during World War II. Extensively researched and filled with fascinating details, Virginia Beach Shipwrecks is a treasure for sea lovers of all ages.
Download or read book Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast written by William P. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue, in a revised format and design, of Quinn's popular book of Atlantic coast shipwrecks, featuring more than 300 photos, from the earliest days of photography until modern times.
Download or read book Washed Up written by Skye Moody and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ocean gives up many prizes, just setting them on our beaches for us to find. From rubber ducks that started out somewhere in Indonesia to land Venice Beach, to an intact refrigerator makes it way to the Jersey Shore. Chunks of beeswax found on the Oregon coast are the packing remnants of 18th century Spanish gold. Author Skye Moody walks the coast, dons her wet suit, and heads out to sea to understand the excellent debris that accrues along the tideline. There she finds advanced military technology applied to locating buried Rolexes, hardcore competitive beachcombing conventions, and isolated beach communities whose residents are like flotsam congregated at the slightest obstacle on the coastline. This book confirms that the world is a mysterious place and that treasure is out there to be found.
Download or read book Shipwrecks Off the New Jersey Coast written by Walter Krotee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sinkings Salvages and Shipwrecks written by Robert F. Burgess and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to have been aboard a doomed treasure ship destroyed by hurricane on the Florida coast. . . and then, 255 years later, to be the first to find the treasure?!? Or to walk the sunken streets of Port Royal and hear the bell toll in the tower? It all lives again as Robert Burgess puts you into these exciting true sea tales. Fully illustrated.
