Tales From Australia S Shipwreck Coast

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Tales From Australia S Shipwreck Coast

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Author : Phillip Doak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Tales From Australia S Shipwreck Coast written by Phillip Doak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Colac Region (Vic.) categories.

Collection of photos and stories behind 10 shipwrecks off Victoria's treacherous coast. Wrecks include the 'Loch Ard', the 'Schomberg', the 'Marie Gabrielle', the 'Newfield' and the 'Antares'. Includes colour photos and glossary.

Australia S Shipwreck Coast And Other Stories

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Author : Jack Kenneth Loney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Australia S Shipwreck Coast And Other Stories written by Jack Kenneth Loney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Shipwrecks categories.

Swallowed By The Sea

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Author : Graeme Henderson
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Release Date : 2016-10-01

Swallowed By The Sea written by Graeme Henderson and has been published by National Library of Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with History categories.

Published in Association with the Western Australian Museum 'Swallowed by the Sea' tells the stories of Australia's greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. It includes wrecks from all corners of Australia, from 1622 to as recently as 2010, from clipper ships to colonial schooners to East Indiamen. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by the inept Captain Brookes, and about the loss of emigrant barque Cataraqui, which struck a reef off King Island in the middle of a stormy night, drowning more than 400 people. The violent wrecking of ships is only part of the story. Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson has personally located and dived many of the shipwrecks in this book. Alongside his accounts are colour underwater photographs of the dive sites with specially written recollections by members of the diving crew.

A Treacherous Coast

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Author : Chris Ison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-08

A Treacherous Coast written by Chris Ison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-08 with categories.

Our fascination with shipwrecks comes not from the loss of the vessel itself but the dramatic struggle for survival that follows. A Treacherous Coast tells the stories left by survivors of ten maritime disasters from Australia's tropical north-eastern waters. Not all ended with the loss of the ship. But all pitted the survivors against harsh and unforgiving elements and inhospitable lands far removed from what was familiar. It draws on firsthand accounts recorded in ships logs, journals, personal correspondence, and contemporary newspaper reports. The book opens with the Endeavour which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef during Cook's historic voyage up Australia's east coast in 1770. It then moves on to the seizure of the small schooner Caledonia in Moreton Bay by escaped convicts in 1831. Then it unteases the conflicting stories surrounding the Aborigines' treatment of the Stirling Castle survivors on K'gari (Fraser Island) in 1836. A Treacherous Coast recounts the tragic struggle for survival by the crew and passengers of the Peruvian in 1846. Only one man survived to tell their story after living among the Aborigines for 17 years. In 1851 two intrepid sailors saved the Countess of Minto from being lost in a ferocious tropical storm while their shipmates were stranded on a small coral island.After running aground on the Great Barrier Reef in 1859 the crew of the Sapphire spent an agonising five months battling starvation, thirst, hostile Torres Strait Islanders and contrary winds to return to port. The Maria's calamitous voyage in 1872 is a testament to what can go wrong when you go to sea ill prepared.The loss of the Gothenburg in 1875 and the Quetta in 1890 are two of the worst maritime disasters to have taken place in Queensland waters. Those fortunate enough to live left harrowing accounts of their struggle for survival. The book concludes with the loss of the small coastal trading schooner Orete in 1918. A sole survivor was washed ashore on an uninhabited island where he spent three weeks effecting his escape.

Dead Men S Silver

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Author : Hugh Edwards
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2011-12-01

Dead Men S Silver written by Hugh Edwards and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with History categories.

The story of more than sixty years of diving adventures, through starkly contrasting locations and extraordinary advances in technology. From boyhood dreamer to master treasure hunter, Hugh Edwards documents his life through tales of shipwreck and salvage. the story of more than sixty years of diving adventures including his significant find of the Batavia, Hugh Edwards documents his life through tales of shipwreck, treasure hunting and salvage.Brought up on tales of pirates and great treasure hunters, Hugh Edwards never expected to handle 'pieces of eight' himself. But one exciting day off the West Australian coast, that is exactly what happened, when he and his team located treasure lost from the Dutch East Indiaman shipwreck the Vergulde Draeck. It was a moment of astonishment and euphoria, as there in his hand lay a piece of silver with the inscription: PHILIPPUS IIII ... REX HISPANIA ... DG - Philip IV, King of Spain, Dei Gratia (by the Grace of God). the date on the coin was 1654.Nearly fifty years later Hugh Edwards has explored shipwrecks around the world - in the Mediterranean, the Falklands, Cambodia - wherever there is treasure to be found. He has been recognised as 'primary finder' of the 1629 wreck of the Batavia and the 1727 wreck the Zeewyk. He has worked with some of the world's craziest, daring and most successful divers in some of the most beautiful or stormy places on Earth.this is the story of a lifetime of adventure - of dangerous seas, thrilling underwater locations, of pirate diplomacy and empire building, and of modern derring-do. 'Ever since there have been ships and sailors there have been shipwrecks. Each is different, and each is a time capsule, arrested at a particular moment - and they all came to the same unexpected and unscheduled end.' Hugh Edwards

The Savage Shore

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Author : Graham Seal
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-26

The Savage Shore written by Graham Seal and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with History categories.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for England. The author relates dramatic, previously untold legends of survival gleaned from the centuries of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Indonesian voyages to Australia, and debunks commonly held misconceptions about the earliest European settlements: ships of the Dutch East Indies Company were already active in the region by the early seventeenth century, and the Dutch, rather than the English, were probably the first European settlers on the continent.

Shipwrecks Of Australia S West Coast

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Author : M. McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012

Shipwrecks Of Australia S West Coast written by M. McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Coasts categories.

The earliest sightings of Australia by Europeans was of the West Coast, and from as early as 1622 British, Dutch, Portuguese and American ships have run foul of the treacherous waters along that coast line. Includes stories of the early interactions with Aboriginal and Europeans.

Tales Of Shipwreck And Peril At Sea

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Author : Tales
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858

Tales Of Shipwreck And Peril At Sea written by Tales and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with categories.

Twice Lost

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Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

Twice Lost written by William Henry Giles Kingston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Children's stories, English categories.

Twice Lost

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Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

Twice Lost written by William Henry Giles Kingston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.