Wrecks and Reefs focuses entirely on the many shipwrecks and artificial reefs throughout Southern California - from Santa Barbara County to the Mexican border. It contains histories of these ships, how they sank, their GPS coordinates and even fishing and diving information. Also included is a database of submerged unknown objects gathered from the latest in side scan sonar by the NOAA. Many of these have never been explored! Maybe there’s a lost Manila galleon or pirate ship just waiting for the weekend diver to come cruising by. Whether you’re a fishermen, a diver or a maritime history buff, Wrecks and Reefs is the most complete guide of Southern California submerged objects available today.

Hidden beneath the dark waters of Puget Sound lays a rich maritime history waiting to be discovered by adventurous divers. Shipwrecks from the Mosquito Fleet and the glory days of sail are fascinating journeys back into history. The authors have compiled and released the history and GPS locations of more than one hundred northwest wrecks. Northwest Wreck Dives provides fascinating historical backgrounds, maps and the precise positions of clipper ships, tramp steamers, passenger ferries and many of the grand vessels that plied the waters of the Inland Sea. The oldest wreck in the book sank more than 125 years ago after the clipper ship had made more than ten runs "round the horn" from New York to San Francisco and back. "The 7,700 ton, Panamanian- flagged tramp streamer Andalusia was... Less

Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the history of baseball and tales of players and owners, including some of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature.

Books. With eerie similarities to the "Titanic" disaster that followed 14 years after its 1898 publication, this is a fictional tale about the "Titan", the largest passenger ship ever built, which ultimately hits an iceberg and sinks. Believers in psychic phenom

An eerie 1898 story featuring the ocean liner Titan which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the RMS Titanic which sank fourteen years later.

This fascinating account examines the fate which overtook the principality of Catalonia in the fifteenth century, reducing it from dominance within the state of Aragon to a marginal role in the Iberian power created by the union of Aragon and Castile. It begins by studying the tensions destabilising Catalonia: unrest among a peasantry resentful of outdated burdens; merchants and artisans struggling to wrest control of the towns from entrenched oligarchies; an aristocracy devoted to endless feuding; and a monarchy thrown into disarray by the extinction of the Catalan line and its replacement by a Castilian dynasty. In 1462 , Catalonia degenerated into a civil war which lasted ten years. Part two seeks to explain how and why the king, Juan II, emerged victorious. The economic and military... Less

It took ten years of laborious planning and exhaustive negotiations to create the mammoth Penn Central Railroad, the largest railroad in United States history. When the leviathan was finally born of a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads on February 1, 1968, the event was hailed as a great day for railroading. But the baby giant survived only 367 days. The crash of the Penn Central set a new record, this time for the largest bankruptcy the United States had ever seen. "The Wreck of the Penn Central" provides a close-up view of the events that brought the Big Train to bankruptcy court--over-regula tion, subsidized competition, big labor featherbedding, greed, corporate back-stabbing, stunning incompetence, and, yes, even a little sex.

Photos of aircraft scrap heaps, or "graveyards", taken by advancing Allied troops in North Africa and Europe from 1942 onwards, is a subject of proven popularity with aircraft enthusiasts and modelers. These scrap heaps often contained rare mixes of aircraft bearing unit markings and schemes not seen in more conventional and well-known views. Sometimes these photos serve to disprove previous theories. Where possible, this book provides before and after photos of the aircraft featured, showing it in service as well as in its "graveyard" condition. Aircraft covered in this book include all types fighters, bombers, nightfighters, transports, and maritime aircraft, and some of hte photos feature aircraft shot down over British soil, particularly during the Battle of Britain. Many of the... Less

Updated in 2007. This second edition of the original Erie Wrecks East provides a complete guide to shipwrecks of eastern Lake Erie. Ten newly discovered wreck sites and many expanded stories enhance this edition, allowing readers to explore 103 eastern Lake Erie shipwrecks. Over 250 photos, drawings and sidescan images make the incredible stories of lost ships and breathtaking survival come to life. There are GPS locations for the diver or fisherman.