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Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects accounts of the underwater discoveries made by the author and his team of volunteers dedicated to the exploration of historic wrecks, including the tale of the ghost ship Mary Celeste, the Carpathia, and other ships.
2) Ship
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes wooden ships or caravels of the fifteenth century and follows archaeologists as they uncover a lost caravel in the Caribbean Sea.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater.
Author
Publisher
GodwinBooks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the building of the mighty Swedish warship the Vasa, how it sank not even a mile out of the harbor, the subsequent investigation, and how it was brought to the surface and restored more than three hundred years later.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations...
Author
Lexile measure
AD 910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Civil War, Union forces blockade the port of Charleston so the Confederate army seeks a way to attack the Yankee ships. George Dixon is part of the group of men given the task of creating and building the "fish boat," a submarine. The H.L. Hunley does ultimately set out on its mission to sink Yankee ships, but fails to return, its whereabouts unknown. For over 100 years, the mystery of the Hunley and the fate of its crew stayed buried....
Author
Publisher
Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Shipwrecked! is an adventure-filled nonfiction book for young readers about the most captivating shipwrecks from history. Combining new research, stunning archival material, and vivid storytelling, Shipwrecked! dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows young readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time"--
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Mariner books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of numbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible... November 21, 1915: After sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Weddell Sea, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice. Shackleton...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From harvesting herring eggs to hunting humpback whales, humans have had a relationship with the world's oceans for more than 100,000 years. In Dig Deep: Connecting Archaeology, Oceans and Us, young readers unearth what our ancestors left behind at archaeological sites around the world and examine how tools, campsites, fishing technologies and even garbage can show us how our ancestors lived and how they used the ocean. These discoveries can unearth...
Author
Series
Ancient peoples and places volume 48
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history...