Shipwrecks of the California Coast:: Wood to Iron, Sail to Steam (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609499242)

More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline--Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The City of Rio de Janeiro," bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from San Francisco to San Diego, crashed into the rocks at Honda Point on the treacherous Santa Barbara County coast, killing 23 sailors in one of the military's worst peacetime losses. Join author Michael D. White as he navigates the shoals of shipping mishaps with both salvage stories and elegies to the departed."

Author: Michael D. White
ISBN-10: 1609499247
ISBN-13: 9781609499242
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d