by Liz Mechem
E-ADVENTURE.NET: THE WRECK OF THE SAN AGUSTIN
www.e-adventure.net/sea/shipwrecks/sanagustin.html
MARINER’S MUSEUM
www.monitorcenter.org/
THE MEL FISHER MARITIME MUSEUM
www.melfisher.org/1622.htm
NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM
www.ncmaritime.org/Blackbeard/qar.htm
STORY OF THE ATOCHA
www.atocha1622.com/Atocha
A SLAVE SHIP SPEAKS: THE WRECK OF THE HENRIETTA MARIE
www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/henriettamarie/overview.htm
THE WRECK OF THE MANILA GALLEON SAN AGUSTIN
www.caribbeanarchaeology.com/SanAgustin.htm
INDEX
A
Abu Qir Bay, Alexandria, Egypt, 112–113
Acapulco, Mexico, 14, 15, 138–139
Acts of the Apostles, 170
Acushnet, the, 23
Adventure, the, 94, 95
Age of Sail, 10, 18, 93, 115, 141, 182
Alamogordo, New Mexico, 129
Alaska, 52, 61
Alecton, the, 141
Alexander, the, 112
Aline Sitoé Diatta, 57
Allies, 122, 122–123, 123–124, 126
al-Salam Boccaccio 98, MS. See Boccaccio 98
Alvin, 75
Amazon, the. See Mary Celeste
American beaver, 101
American Civil War, 24, 25, 158
Amoco Cadiz, the, 60
Amoy, China, 66
Amundsen, Roald, 38
Andaste, SS, 152–153
Anderson, Albert L., 152
Andrea Doria, the, 80–83
Antarctica, 28, 36–37
antisubmarine net, 79
Apostle Paul. See St. Paul
Arctic Circle, 38
Arctic Ocean, 38
Arctic, the, 34–35, 38–39
ice shelf, 38
shipping, 38
Argentine Air Force, 130
Argo Merchant, the, 81
Arguin Bank, Mauritania, 47
Arica, Chile, 32, 33
Arica earthquake, 32
Arizona, USS, 124–125
Arkansas, the, 159
Ark Royal, 122
Armada Portraits, 109
Arnald, George, 112
Arthur M. Anderson, SS, 40–41
artificial reef, 27
Astoria Column, 101
Astoria, Oregon, 100–101
Astoria, Queens, 162
Astor, John Jacob, 100
Atlantic crossing, 90
Atlantic Empress, the, 61
Atlantic Ocean, 16, 22, 26, 48, 58, 83, 146
Atocha, the, 16–17, 91
atomic bomb, 128–129
Auckland Islands, 28, 29
Avenger torpedo bomber, 151
B
Bacchante, HMS, 179
Baffin Bay, 34
Bahia Isabel, Dominican Republic, 137
Baja California, 138–139
Ballard, Dr. Robert, 75, 117
Baltic Sea, 44, 45, 54, 126
Barbary Coast, Africa, 96
bark, 100
barque. See bark
barracuda, 30
Barth, Carl Wilhelm, 65
Bartlett, Charles, 119–120
Batavia, the, 88–89
Battle of Gravelines, 110–111
Battle of Hampton Roads, 24, 25
Battle of Iwo Jima, 128
Battle of the Denmark Strait, 122
Battle of the Nile, 112–113, 113
Battle of Vigo Bay, 19
battleship, 115, 160
Baughers Bay, 31
Beaudéan, Baron Raoul de, 82
Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, 95–96
Beaufort scale, 54
Beaumont, Texas, 151
Belfast, Northern Ireland, 71, 120
Bellamy, Samuel “Black Sam,” 92–93
Bellerophon, the, 112
Belvidere Shoals, 66
Bermuda Triangle, 149–151
Bernie Cooper, Captain, 41
Bethia, the. See HMS Bounty
Bible, 168–170
Birkenhead, HMS, 10, 68–69
Bismarck, KMS, 122–123
Bismarck, Otto von, 123
Blackbeard, 94–95
Black Rock Point, Salt Island, 31
Bligh, William, 98
blizzard, 79
B. L. Pennington, the, 152
Blue Anchor Line, 144
Boca Raton, Florida, 103
Boccaccio 98, 62–63
boiler explosion, 158
bomb ship, 34
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 47, 112–113
Bonzo, Hector, 131
Book of Pirates, 96
Bostonia II, the, 159
Bounty Bay, South Pacific, 99
Bounty, HMS, 98–99
Bourbon monarchy, 46
Brady, C. P., 148
Breda, the, 147
Brest, France, 122
brig, 26, 115
Briggs, Benjamin, 143
Britannic, HMHS, 118–120
British Admiralty, 118
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 107
British East India Company, 96
broadside, 21
Brooklyn Navy Yards, 124
Brown, Emlyn, 144
Buddhism, 175
Bukko, 175
Buncrana, Ireland, 120
bushido, 175
C
Caesarea, 170
Caesar, Julius, 170
Calais, France, 110
Calamai, Captain Piero, 80, 82, 83
Californian, SS, 71
Canadian Pacific Railroad, 52
Canary Islands, Africa, 134
cannibalism, 34, 47
Cape Hatteras, 26, 27, 48
Cape Horn, 22, 32, 98, 100, 179
Cape Lookout, 148–149
Cape Mendocino, 14
Cape of Good Hope, 102, 178–179
Cape Town, South Africa, 68, 144–145
Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, 135, 151
Capitana, the, 137
Caracol, Haiti, 135
caravel, 115, 137–138
Cardera, the 137
cargo ship, 173
Caribbean Sea, 16, 18, 26, 30
Carlson, James, 148
Carpathia, RMS, 73
carrack, 115, 134
Carroll A. Deering, SS, 10, 148–149, 151
Carstens, Johann-Ernst, 80
“Casabianca,” 112
Casabianca, Giocante, 112
Casabianca, Luc-Julien-Joseph, 112
Cedar, USLHS, 52
Celtic Sea, 116
Cermeño, Captain Sebastian Rodriguez, 14, 15
Chamberlain, Thomas, 90
Chappell, John G., 48
Charleston, South Carolina, 95
Chase, Owen, 22, 23
Chase, William, 23
Cherbourg, France, 70
Chester, Pennsylvania, 32
Chicago, Illinois, 50, 51, 152
Chicago River, 50
Christian, Fletcher, 98–99
Churchill, Winston, 122
City of New York, SS, 70
Clan McIntyre, the, 144
Clark Street Bridge, Chicago, 50
Clayoquot Sound, Canada, 100
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company,
Clifford, Barry, 93, 137
Clinton, Bill, president of the United States, 103
clipper ship, 28
coal barge, 26
coal ship, 76
Cobh, Ireland, 116
Coffin, Owen, 22
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 164
collier, 77, 98
Colorado Desert, 139
Colorado River, 100, 138
Columbus, Christopher, 10, 134–135, 151
Concord, 94
Concorde, La, 94
Confucianism, 175
Connecticut Colony, 176
Conqueror, HMS, 130–131<
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Conrad, Joseph, 63
Conway, RMS, 30, 31
copper, 16
Cornelisz, Jeronimus, 88–89
Cornhill magazine, 143
Cortés, Hernán, 138–139
Cousteau, Jacques, 74, 118
Crete, 171–172
Crippen, Dr. Hawley Harvey, 121
Cristoforo Colombo, the, 80
cruiser, 128
Currituck Beach, North Carolina, 48, 49
Currituck Lifesaving Station, 48, 49
Cyclops, USS, 151
D
Daedalus, HMS, 140
Daedalus sea serpent, 140
Dahlgren smoothbore cannon, 24
Dakar, Senegal, 56
Dakar-Ziguinchor ferry route, 57
Damant, Guyban C. C., 121
Danger Point, 68
Daoism, 175
Dauphin-Royale, the, 112
Davenport, John, 176
Dead Chest Island, British Virgin Islands, 31
dead reckoning, 135
de Chaumareys, Hugues Duroy, 47
Dei Gratia, the, 142
de Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jaques, 110
Demre, Turkey, 170
Devil’s Triangle. See Bermuda Triangle
Dewis, Joshua, 142
Dew, Walter, 121
Diamond Shoals, 26, 148–149
Dickson, Fred, 137
diving bell, 45, 74
diving suits, 74
Djula people, 57
Djurgården, Sweden, 44
dolphin, 60
Doña Paz, MV, 56, 84–85
Doria, Andrea, 81
Dorsetshire, the, 123
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 143
Drake, Sir Francis, 15, 108, 111
Drake’s Bay, 14, 15
dredger, 59
Dry Tortugas, 16, 17
Duba, Saudi Arabia, 62
Dublin, Ireland, 172
Duke of Medina Sidonia, 108
Duke of Parma, 108
Duke University, 27
Dumali Point, 84
Dunkirk, 108
Dunraven, the, 74
Durban, South Africa, 144–145
Dutch East India Company (VOC), 88–89, 96
E
earthquake, 32
East Asia
trade with, 14, 15
East Coast, United States, 49, 80
Eastland, SS, 10, 50–51
East River, 162
Eddystone, England, 110
Edmund Fitzgerald, SS, 40–41
Elephant Island, 37
Elizabeth I, queen of England, 108–109
Empress of Ireland, RMS, 76–77
Endurance, HMS, 10, 36
English Channel, 107, 110
Erebus and Terror expedition, 38
Erebus, HMS, 10, 34–35
Ericsson, John, 24, 156, 157
Ernest McSorley, Captain, 40
Escheverz y Zubiza, Antonio de, 18
Essex, the (whaleship), 22–23, 159
Estonia, MS, 54
Euraquilo, 171
Exxon Valdez, the, 61
F
Fair Havens. See Kali-Limones
Falkland Islands, 130–131
Falklands Conflict, 130–131
Ferdinand II, king of Aragon, 134, 135
ferry, 56, 84
coastal, 52
cruise, 54
overcrowding, 56, 57, 62
roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO), 62–63
Ferrysburg, Michigan, 152
fireboat, 162, 164–165
Fisher, Mel, 16, 17, 20, 91, 139
fishing boat, 173
Fishing Rip Shoal, 81
Fleet, Frederick, 71
Flight 19, 151
Florida Keys, 151
Florida Straits, 90
Flying Dutchman, the, 178–179, 179
Ford Island, Hawaii, 124
Fort Clark, 115
Fort Hatteras, North Carolina, 115
Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina, 95
Fort Resolution, 34
forward-slanting bow, 76
Franklin, Jane (Lady Franklin), 35
Franklin, Sir John, 34
French navy, 56
Friedrich, Caspar David, 38
frigate, 46, 115
sailing, 68
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, 175
G
Galician coast, Spain, 58, 59
Gallega, the, 137
galleon, 26, 115
Manila, 14, 15
Spanish, 16, 18, 21, 26
galley, 115
gam, 140
Gambia, 56, 57
Gardiner, David, 157
Gaspar Strait, 66
Gdynia, Poland, 126
General Belgrano, ARA, 130–131
General Grant, the 28–29
General Slocum, the, 162–163
Genesis, 168–169
Genghis Khan, 174
Genoa, Italy, 80
George V, king of England, 179
Géricault, Théodore, 46
ghost pipe fish, 74
giant squid, 180
Gibraltar Harbor, 142
Gigantic, the, 118
Gillis, James H., 32
Gilmer, Thomas Walker, 156, 157
Gloucester sea serpent, 141
gold, 16, 18, 19, 20, 28, 29
gold bullion, 120
Golden Age of Piracy, 94, 96–97
Golden Venture folding, 103
Golden Venture, the, 102–103
Gorée Island, Senegal, 90
Goryeo, 174
Gospel, 170
Gotenhafen, Poland. See Gdynia, Poland
Grand Marais, 41
Graveyard of the Atlantic, 26
Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 99
Great Harbour, St. Peter Island, 30
Great Lakes, 40–41, 50, 152–153
Great Shippe. See phantom ship of New Haven
Greece, ancient, 45
Green Book of Washington, 157
Grenadines, 94
Greyhound of the Seas, The. See Lusitania, RMS
Grifón, the, 18
Ground Zero, 165
grouper, 30, 31
Guelph, the, 144
Gulf of California, 138
Gulf of Mexico, 16, 18
Gulf Stream, 18, 26
Gulf War, 61
gunboat, 51, 159
Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, 44
H
Hakata, Japan. See Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Halifax Harbour, 79
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 78, 120
Hallet, Maria, 92
Hampton Bays, Virginia, 48
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 115
Harland and Wolff shipyard, 120
Harlow, the, 144
Hatcher, Mike, 67
Havana, Cuba, 16, 18, 20, 21
Havana Harbor, 160–161
Havhingsten fra Glendalough, 172
Hawke, HMS, 119
Hawkins, John, 108
hellburners, 110
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 112
Henderson Island, 22
Henrietta Marie, the, 17, 90–91
Henry VIII, king of England, 106–107
Hiroshima, Japan, 128
Hitler, Adolf, 122, 126
Hogg and Delamater, 156
Hollandia, the, 10
Hood, HMS, 122–123
Hornbeam, the, 83
Hornigold, Benjamin, 92, 94–95
Houtman Abrolhos islands, Australia, 88
Howard of Effingham, Lord, 109
hulk, 142
Hurley, Frank, 37
Huron, SS, 49
hurricane, 16, 17, 18, 26, 30, 31
hypothermia, 73, 159
I
iceberg, 71
icebreaker, 164
Île de France, the, 82–83
Illinois Naval Reserve, 51
Immigration and Naturalization Service, 103
Imo, the, 78
Indiana, HMS, 67
Indianapolis, USS, 10, 128–129
indigo, 16
Inland Passage, 52
International Maritime Organization (IMO), 61
Interstal, Inc., 95
Inuit people, 35
Iron Chancellor. See Bismarck, Otto von
ironclad, 24
Isabella I, queen of Castile, 134, 135
Isla de Cedros, Baja California, 138–139
Isle of Wight, England, 107, 110
Ismay, J. Bruce, 72
Italian Line, 80, 83
I. W. Nicholas, the, 152
Ixtoc I oil well, 61
J
Jacobsz, Adrian, 88
Jakarta, Indonesia, 66
Jamanic K, the, 151
Jennings, Henry, 20
Jenny Lind, the, 159
Jessop, Violet, 119
Jewell, Joseph, 29
Jewell, Mary Ann, 29
jewels, 16, 18
“J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement,” 143
John J. Harvey, the, 165
Jolly Roger, 96–97
Jonah and the Whale, 169
Judaism, 168, 171
Judea, 170
Julius (centurian), 170
Juneau, Alaska, 52
junk, 66–67
K
Kali-Limones, 171
Karlskrona, Sweden, 45
Katkenud liin, 55
Kea Channel, Aegean Islands, 118–119
Keeler, William, 27
Kendall, Captain Henry George, 76
Kennon, Captain Beverly, 156
Kenosha, SS, 51
Keying, the, 66
Key West, Florida, 17, 160
Kidd, William, 97
King George V, the, 123
King, John, 93
King William Island, 35
Kipling, Rudyard, 69
Krakstau, the, 147
Kublai Khan, 174–175
Kyoto, Japan, 174
Kyushu, Japan, 174
L
Labrador Current, 26
Lake Carriers’ Association, 41
Lake Michigan, 50, 152–153
Lake Superior, 41
Lamazee. See Ramsey, George
Lancaster Sound, 34
Laurentic, RMS, 120–121
Lawrence, Benjamin, 22
lead poisoning, 34
Lee, General Robert E., 158
Le Joola, MV, 56, 57
Lewis, James, 100
Leyte, Philippines, 128–129
lifeboat, 29, 62, 68, 71, 72, 119, 153, 162, 163
life jacket, 62
Lightfoot, Gordon, 41
lightship, 52, 81
Lincoln, Abraham, president of the United States, 158
Lioness, the, 69
lionfish, 183
Lisbon, Portugal, 108
Little Germany, 162–163
Liverpool, England, 76, 116
Lloyd’s of London, 151
lobster, 30
Locke, Captain Leonard, 52
London, England, 28, 34, 144–145
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 177
Lord Jim, 63
Lough Swilly, Ireland, 120–121
Löwe, the, 127
Luke, 170–171
Luny, Thomas, 113
Lusitania, RMS, 10, 116–117
LV 117, 81
Lynn Canal, Alaska, 52
M
Magnalia Christi Americana, 177
magnetometer, 17
Maine, USS, 160–161
Malta, 170–171
