Graveyard of the Atlantic : shipwrecks of the North Carolina coast /

This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters--the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stick, David, 1919-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1952]
Temas:
Shipwrecks.
Naufrages.
shipwrecks.
TRAVEL > Cruises.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Outer Banks 1526-1814
  • Shipwrecks become news 1815-1838
  • The steam packet Pulaski 1838
  • The toll mounts 1838-1860
  • Ironclads and blockade runners 1861-1865
  • Catching up on lost trade 1866-1877
  • The Huron 1877
  • The Metropolis 1878-1893
  • The long day of Dunbar Davis 1893
  • Shipwrecks as a business 1893-1899
  • San Ciriaco 1899
  • From sail to steam 1899-1918
  • Unguarded shores 1918
  • Peacetime enemy 1919-1941
  • The U-boats return 1942-1945
  • The romance is gone 1946
  • Vessels totally lost on the North Carolina Coast.

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