Bibliograph

Swallowed by the sea, the story of Australia's shipwrecks, Graeme Henderson

Type

Label

Swallowed by the sea, the story of Australia's shipwrecks, Graeme Henderson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 206-213) and index

resource.governmentPublication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsfacsimilesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Swallowed by the sea

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Graeme Henderson

Sub title

the story of Australia's shipwrecks

Summary

This book tells the stories of Australia's greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by the inept and reluctant Captain Brookes, and about Australia's worst civil disaster at sea, the loss of emigrant barque Cataraqui, which struck a reef off King Island in the middle of a stormy night, careened over onto its port side and then broke up, eventually disappearing under the water along with more than 400 men, women and children. Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson has personally located and dived many of the shipwrecks in this book

Target audience

adult

Creator