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Lost Voyages
'Two Centuries of Shipwrecks
in the Approaches to New York. By Bradley
Sheard
This is the story of shipwrecks,
and of the human dramas played out in the throes of howling
winter nor' easters, frozen rigging, tremendous seas, wrenching
collissions, burning oil and exploding torpedoes. It is a story
fraught with Pathos and heroism, death and survival.
It is alos the story of the evelution of ships and shipping,
for in the approaches to New York lie the sunken hulks of hundreds
of ships of every era and type, providing time capsules of the
world's maritime history for the last two centuries.
Wooden warships from the days of the revoulution, coastal schooners,
once majestic ships from the great days of sai, tramp steamers,
passenger liners like the blue riband winner SS Oregon (1886)
and the luxurious Andrea Doria (1954), U-Boats and their victims
in world war I & II, armored cruisers and revenue cutters,
rumrunners, and modern victims of collissions all share a haunting
grave beneath the cold Atlantic.
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This is the world shut off to all but a few of
the most skilled and adventurous, but through the use of hundreds
of underwater and historical photographs, drawings of many ships
as they lie today, maps, and a lively narrative, Bradlley Sheard
brings this historical adventure alive for all to experience.
A native of Long Island New York and a shipwreck diver since
1977 Sheard has followed his ambition to explore shipwrecks
and is in no better position to bring this wonderfully colourfull
volume to all readers of interest in shipping, shipwrecks and
underwater exploration. Sheards images and articles have appeared
in hundreds of journals and his previous book' Beyond Sport
Diving was highly appriciated by the wreck diivng community
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216 pages colour & Black & white photographs and illustrations
Published by Aqua Quest Publications, Inc, New York
ISBN1-881652-17-3
Distributed to the book trade by National Book Network Inc
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