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Shipwrecks and Underwater

Archaeology books.

 

A selection of books, most of which are also displayed in other pages, covering maritime disasters, shipwrecks, underwater archaeology and childrens books - some fiction covering these subjects.

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The wreck of the Wager, one of the vessels composing Anson's expedition in 1740 against the Spanish settlements of South America, is one of the most famous stories of the British Navy. Narratives of The Hon. John Byron and of his fellow midshipman Isaac Morris. Published circa 1905
The Log of the Flying Fish: A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Harry Collingwood. Illustrated in b&w by Gordon Browne Published before 1910 by Blackie and Son, London. This book was one of the first science fiction genre to be published and has since been reprinted as an eBook and a paperback. This particular copy is probably only in GOOD condition.
A HISTORY OF SEAFARING BASED ON UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY has chapters on Greek, Etruscan and Phoenician ships and shipping, the Romans on the sea, Greek and Roman harbour-works, ships of the Roman period and after in Britain, the Byzantine maritime world, Scandinavian ships up to the time of the Vikings, and the ships of medieval and Renaissance Italy. Later chapters describe the influence of British naval strategy on ship design, the traders and privateers who plied the Atlantic from the end of the fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth, and how the great water-ways opened the New World.
Castaway & Wrecked, ed. Rex Cowan: The coasts of Scilly and Cornwall have long been a hazard to ships and those who sail in them, but it was not till the latter half of the nineteenth century that the moving details of shipwrecks and their aftermath were recorded for posterity. This book brings together the superb photographs of the Gibson family of Scilly and Penzance, many of them previously unpublished, and contemporary newspaper accounts of the events depicted in them.
PERIL OF THE SEA by J. G. Lockhart (Nautilus Library): A book of shipwrecks and escapes beginning with the WHITE SHIP and ending with the TITANIC. Each Incident has its own chapter; Occum Chamnan, HMS Phœnix, Royal George, Rothsay Castle and the Birkenhead.
         
A HISTORY OF SHIPWRECKS AND DISASTERS AT SEA FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES in two volumes Constable's Miscellany Volume 78 Volume I: THE NORTHERN AND POLAR SEA Constable's Miscellany Volume 79 Volume II: THE ATLANTIC AND SOUTHERN SEAS by Richard Sampson. Published in 1833 by Whittaker, Treacher & Co., London and Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh
Stars Beneath the Sea by Trevor Norton: This is the story of some of the brave, brilliant and sometimes barmy men who 'invented' diving. It is the story of explosive tempers and exploding teeth, of how to juggle live hand grenades and steer a giant rubber octopus.
The wreck of the Croatian Barque Stefano off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875.Ten men struggled ashore, their plight was acute. Two teenagers Miho Baccich and Ivan Jurich, themselves driven to cannibalism, were rescued by aborigines, members of a nomadic tribe whose generosity and compassion saved their lives. Eventually a pearling ship turned toward shore in a storm and they were discovered
  
At seventeen Tony Groom joined the Royal Navy. As a member of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team, he found himself diving for mines, dealing with unexploded bombs and being shot at in the Falklands War. He left the Navy in 1985, and has since travelled the world as a commercial diver.

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