Bookshelf: Books about ships and shipwrecks

Who can resist a good shipwreck story? There’s a lot of choice in this selection of books about maritime catastrophes, discovery of lost wrecks, and efforts to prevent ships from coming to grief. Read on…

Shipping

• The Box – shipping containers
• The Outlaw Sea – everything about earth’s wildest frontier
• The Docks
• Deep Sea and Foreign Going (90 Percent of Everything)

South African shipwrecks

• Tales of Shipwrecks at the Cape of Storms
• Some Michael Walker titles
• Lawrence G. Green
• Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa

Shipwreck exploration

• Explorations
• Adventures in Ocean Exploration
• Three Miles Down
• Archaeological Oceanography
• The Sea Hunters
• The Sea Hunters II
• Adventures of a Sea Hunter
• Pirate Hunters

Ancient and pre-industrial shipwrecks

• Mystery of the Ancient Seafarers
• Treasure – The Search for the Atocha
• Beneath the Seven Seas

RMS Titanic

• Robert Ballard’s Titanic
• Return to Titanic

Modern shipwrecks

• Deep Descent – diving the Andrea Doria
• Shadow Divers – diving a WWII submarine in the North Atlantic
• The Terrible Hours – the sinking and recovery of the Squalus, a US submarine
• Graveyards of the Pacific
• The Death of the USS Thresher – loss of a US nuclear submarine
• Cry from the Deep – the loss of the Kursk submarine
• Blind Man’s Bluff – submarines in the Cold War
• Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea
• The Perfect Storm
• Dark Descent
• Into the Raging Sea – the containership El Faro

Those who prevent shipwrecks

• Into a Raging Sea – the NSRI’s historic and recent rescues around South Africa
• Rescue Warriors – the US Coastguard