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Author : Peter Moir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951336625
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Clyde Shipwrecks written by Peter Moir and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Cameron
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841582337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks of the North of Scotland written by Donald Cameron and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a reference guide to shipping losses off the coast of Scotland from Stonehaven northwards to Duncansby Head, then westwards to Cape Wrath and the Minch. Each of the wrecks is listed, under the area in which it went down, with details of its position and history and fate.
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849950770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Great British Shipwrecks written by Rod Macdonald and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rod Macdonald uses his encyclopaedic knowledge and an intimate understanding of shipwrecks, gleaned from a lifetime's diving, to provide a snapshot in time of some of the best-known and most revered shipwrecks around the UK.
Author : Colin Martin
Publisher : B.T. Batsford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Historic Shipwrecks written by Colin Martin and published by B.T. Batsford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing six historic shipwrecks which took place off Scotland, from the time of the Spanish Armada to the 18th century. This text tells of their rediscovery and the archaeological investigation on the sea floor. Each shipwreck is set in its wider historical context.
Author : Henry Bennet Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Wreckers written by Henry Bennet Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mackay
Publisher : Lang Syne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780946264452
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Scottish Shipwreck and Disaster Stories written by John Mackay and published by Lang Syne Publishers. This book was released on 1986-12-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Baird
Publisher : Whittles Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781904445746
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks of the Forth and Tay written by Bob Baird and published by Whittles Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses
Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9781429930963
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown written by Lorri Glover and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.
Author : Ian G. Whittaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953197705
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Off Scotland written by Ian G. Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alec Crawford
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 9781780277400
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Treasure Islands written by Alec Crawford and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon Martin. Diving in Hebridean waters, they explore remains of the Spanish Armada, and the wreck of the SS Politician, the vessel made famous in the Whisky Galore. But money is scarce and irregular, and the work is fraught with danger and disappointment. Until they hear of one of the most incredible wrecks of all time - the White Star Liner Oceanic, which, when built in 1899, was the biggest and most luxurious ship in the world. Widely regarded as an 'undiveable' wreck, lying somewhere off the remote island of Foula, they decide to take the challenge. They face unbelievably dangerous waters and appalling weather conditions, and when a large salvage company takes action against them, they also have a huge legal fight on their hands. But if they succeed, the rewards will be enormous...
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Shipwreck Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Muir
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750955333
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Orkney Folk Tales written by Tom Muir and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
Author : James D. Taylor
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628944943
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Ships and Shipwrecks of the Late Tudor Era written by James D. Taylor and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1500s, British ships plied the seas laden with precious spices, Spanish silver, war matériel, and adventurous souls. Many went to the bottom, leaving only tantalizing hints, sparse records and a few legends. This unique collection of logs, data and narratives from 1547-1603 brings them to life"--
Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408818
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past written by Tom M. Devine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotlands connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field , with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia and slavery,the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots in the Caribbean sugar islands ,compensation paid to Scottish owners when slavery was abolished,domestic controversies on the slave trade,the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish history,to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in discovering an untold aspect of Scotlands past.
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849950374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Darkness Below written by Rod Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diving adventures - and some danger - from established author
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192678140
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
Author : John F. Messner
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849954822
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)
Download or read book A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War written by John F. Messner and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Joannes Wyllie, son of a gardener from Fife, one of the most successful blockade runners of the American Civil War Features his life of adventure and action; he was once declared dead, survived shipwrecks and shark attack, and successfully commanded ships across the globe The most comprehensive history of the Ad-Vance is provided, from departing Glasgow until capture off the Carolina coast
