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SHIPWRECKS OF MASSACHUSETTS: SOUTH
ISBN 1-883056-21-7
softcover with color covers, 6 x 9 vertical, 224 pages 21 color photos, 89 black
& white photos
GARY GENTILE’S POPULAR DIVE GUIDE SERIES
Over 400 GPS and loran numbers included
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As suggested by the title and
series name, this volume covers the most well-known wrecks sunk off the
geographical coast of Massachusetts, south of Cape Cod.
For each of the wrecks covered, a statistical sidebar provides basic information
such as the dates of construction and loss, previous names (if any), tonnage and
dimensions, builder and owner (at time of loss), port of registry, type of
vessel and how propelled, cause of sinking, location (loran coordinates if
known), and depth. In most cases, an historical photograph or illustration of
the ship leads the text. Throughout the book is scattered a selection of color
underwater photographs, some of the wrecks, more often of typical marine life
found in the area.
Each volume is full of fascinating narratives of triumph and tragedy, of heroism
and disgrace, of human nature at its best and its basest. These books are not
about wood and steel, but about flesh and blood, for every shipwreck saga is a
human story. Ships may founder, run aground, burn, collide with other vessels,
or be torpedoed by a German U-boat. In every case, however, what is emphatically
important is what happened to the people who became victims of casualty: how
they survived, how they died.
Also included are descriptions of the wrecks as they appear on the bottom. At
the end of this volume is a bibliography of suggested reading, and a list of
more than 400 GPS and loran numbers of wrecks in and adjacent to the area
covered.
Wrecks covered in Shipwrecks of Massachusetts: South are:
BUZZARDS BAY: Angela, Colonel William B. Cowin, Hilda Garston, St.
Francis, Wanderer, Yankee.
VINEYARD SOUND: Ardandhu, City of Columbus, Fairfax, Herman Winter, John
Dwight, John Paul, Ruth E. Merrill, Sagamore, Seaconnet, Triana, Trojan,
Vineyard Sound, YSD-56.
NANTUCKET SOUND: Alice M. Lawrence, Alva, Aransas, Dixie Sword, Edward E.
Briry, Horatio Hall, Kershaw, Lackawanna, Pendleton, Perkiomen, Port Hunter,
West Virginia, Weybosset, Wyoming.
OFFSHORE: Fort Mercer, Nantucket, North American, Oregon, Pan-Pennsylvania,
Regal Sword, Relief, Republic, Sebastian, U-550.
SPECIAL REPORT: October 8, 1916, Depredations of the U-53: Blommersdijk, Chr.
Knudsen, Stephano, Strathdene, West Point.
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