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Shipwrecks And The Bounty Of The Sea

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Author : David Cressy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-08

Shipwrecks And The Bounty Of The Sea written by David Cressy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with Salvage categories.

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.

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.

Shipwrecked

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Author : Jamin Wells
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

Shipwrecked written by Jamin Wells and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Beaches categories.

The American coastal frontier -- Taming the beach: wreckers and wreck law on the Jersey shore -- Transforming the shore: tourism, lifesavers, and the rise of Quonnie -- Clearing the coast: Captain T.A. Scott, a "True American" -- Shipwreck and spectacle on the modern beach.

Adventures Of A Sea Hunter

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Author : James Delgado
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2009-07-01

Adventures Of A Sea Hunter written by James Delgado and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with History categories.

As a "Sea Hunter" and host, with novelist Clive Cussler, for the new National Geographic International television series, join Delgado as the team searches for, discovers and explores, among others, the wrecks of RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued Titanic’s survivors; Mary Celeste, the infamous "ghost ship" found sailing alone without a soul aboard, in the mid-Atlantic in 1872; Vrouw Maria, a perfectly preserved Dutch cargo ship of 1771, discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Ocean packed with cargo, including crates of long-lost Old Masters belonging to Empress Catherine the Great of Russia; the lost ships of the Mongol fleet of Kublai Khan that invaded Japan in 1274; and wreck of the USS Mississinewa, the first ship sunk by a Japanese "suicide submarine" in WWII. Stories and personalities of the past are interspersed with visits and voyages around the world - crossing the Atlantic, drifting in a powerless ship at the mercy of gales in the heart of the Pacific, and navigating through the fabled Northwest Passage. The undeniable thrill of being where history was made make "Adventures of a Sea Hunter" a highly entertaining, personal account of the exploration of the sea and the past that rests beneath the waves.

Shipwrecks And Adventures At Sea

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Author : Shipwrecks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860

Shipwrecks And Adventures At Sea written by Shipwrecks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.

The Tragic History Of The Sea

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Author : Anthony Brandt
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2006

The Tragic History Of The Sea written by Anthony Brandt and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

"Factual stories of scandal, disaster, and endurance, launching us on storm-tossed voyages through history's most fearsome gales and unforgiving seas" BOOK JACKET.

Chronicles Of The Sea Or Faithful Narratives Of Shipwrecks Fires Famines And Disasters Incidental To A Life Of Maritime Enterprise

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Author : Chronicles of the sea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838

Chronicles Of The Sea Or Faithful Narratives Of Shipwrecks Fires Famines And Disasters Incidental To A Life Of Maritime Enterprise written by Chronicles of the sea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.