The Wrecks of Liverpool Bay
Title | The Wrecks of Liverpool Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Michael |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Shipwrecks |
ISBN | 9780952431510 |
Shipwrecks of North Wales
Title | Shipwrecks of North Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Ivor Wynne Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Shipwrecks |
ISBN | 9781843063384 |
Charts the known records of shipwrecks between Barmouth, around the Anglesey coast, to Liverpool Bay. This book includes the loss of HMS Conway, the submarine HMS Thetis and the world's first submarine, Resurgam, which lies off Rhyl.
Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea
Title | Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Rod Macdonald |
Publisher | Whittles |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781849950954 |
The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya and Thailand. He was to be proved tragically wrong. This book explores in detail the wrecks of these two vessels and narrates a summary of the Japanese threat.
Walking the Wales Coast Path
Title | Walking the Wales Coast Path PDF eBook |
Author | Paddy Dillon |
Publisher | Cicerone Press Limited |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2022-04-15 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1783628960 |
The Wales Coast Path offers an unparalleled opportunity to walk a nation's coastline in its entirety. Stretching 1400km (870 miles) from Chester to Chepstow, including Anglesey, the waymarked trail takes 2-3 months to complete but can easily be broken into shorter sections. The walking is generally not difficult, although there are occasional rugged sections, steep ascents and descents and more remote stretches with fewer facilities. Promising fantastic scenery and a unique insight into local history and culture, what better way to experience the diversity and beauty of Wales' captivating coastline? The route is presented in 57 stages, ranging from 16 to 32km, each featuring clear route description illustrated with 1:100,000 mapping, overview statistics and notes on the availability of accommodation, facilities and public transport links. You'll find plenty of helpful advice for planning your walk, plus background information on Welsh history, geology, plants, wildlife and local points of interest. A facilities table, Welsh glossary and useful contacts can be found in the appendices. Passing through the Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire Coast National Parks, as well as numerous AONBs and sections of Heritage Coast, the Wales Coast Path takes in seaside resorts, attractive fishing villages, sandy beaches, rocky coves and striking cliff coastline. Highlights include the picturesque Llyn and Gower peninsulas, 13th-century 'Iron Ring' castles and frequent opportunities for wildlife spotting. The route can be linked with Offa's Dyke Path National Trail (covered in a separate Cicerone guide) to complete a full circuit of Wales.
Shipwrecks and Provenance: in-situ timber sampling protocols with a focus on wrecks of the Iberian shipbuilding tradition
Title | Shipwrecks and Provenance: in-situ timber sampling protocols with a focus on wrecks of the Iberian shipbuilding tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Sara A. Rich |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2018-02-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784917184 |
This book presents a set of protocols to establish the need for wood samples from shipwrecks and to guide archaeologists in the removal of samples for a suite of archaeometric techniques currently available to provenance the timbers used to construct wooden ships and boats. Case studies presented use Iberian ships of the 16th to 18th centuries.
Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860
Title | Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Cathryn J. Pearce |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 184383555X |
Discusses the complex laws and practices relating to wreck law, that is the right to salvage goods washed up on the shore, examines how Cornish people made use of this "harvest of the sea" and explores how myths about Cornish wrecking have developed.
Ships and Shipwrecks of the Early Stuart Dynasty
Title | Ships and Shipwrecks of the Early Stuart Dynasty PDF eBook |
Author | James D. Taylor Jr. |
Publisher | Algora Publishing |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2023-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1628945117 |
This unique book encompasses in a single volume data including lists of ships and ship types in the service of King James I and Charles I, as well as the East India Company. The bare facts are enlivened by logs and narratives from shipwreck survivors relating the perils of seeking the Northwest Passage or sailing to India. The author has found that many facts have been distorted on informative websites as a result of incomplete and embellished information. This book attempts to correct those errors. For each of the wrecks contained in this book, Mr. Taylor has attempted, if the wording of the documents is ambiguous, to determine the fate of these ships based on only the facts as they were recorded at the time. If in doubt, he would explain his reasoning. In his efforts to collect and share all sailing and wreck-related data in this volume, Mr. Taylor has reviewed hundreds of electronic and hard-copy manuscript archival collections and travelled to view rare and wonderful, sometimes hand-illuminated, manuscripts that have not been digitized. However, as much as he would like to believe he has uncovered everything, it is easy to imagine that more details could come to light at some time. Treasure has different meanings to different people. Some of these wrecks contain Spanish reales (“pieces of 8”), jewels, gold and silver bars that could not be recovered at the time and have since been forgotten. Written records of such events were reviewed by fewer people over the centuries and ended up buried in dark archives, until now. But some of us define treasure as knowledge, ensuring that facts are presented correctly to future generations. This is the goal Mr. Taylor strives for in these volumes.