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Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast: A Remarkable Collection of Photographs of Maritime Accidents from Maine to Florida
by William P. Quinn
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions (2004-06)
ISBN: 1889833738
EAN: 9781889833736
Dewy Decimal #: 910.91634
Hardcover: 244 pages
SKU: L1210
Condition: Good
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Product Description
First published in 1988, Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast has been reedited and redesigned for this new edition. It traces the history of eastern shipping from the age of sail to the present day through surviving images of shipwrecks. Here is the story, together with a Currier and Ives engraving, of the wreck of the steamer Atlantic near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 1, 1873, with a loss of 562 lives. Here are ships wrecked in the legendary Portland Gale of 1898 and the devastating hurricane of 1938. Here is the break-up of the oil tanker Argo Merchant in 1976. Quinn’s compelling photoessay documents some of the most famous maritime disasters in Atlantic Coast history, wrecks that have been all but lost to memory.
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