Shipwrecks Along the Atlantic Coast: A Remarkable Collection of Photographs of Maritime Accidents from Maine to Florida Book

	Note from the Publisher	ix
	Preface from the 1988 Edition	xi
1	Early Years along the Coast	1
	Atlantic Coast maritime history
	The early voyages, trades routes along the coastline
	The Massachusetts Humane Society
	The Mooncussers and the Life Savers
2	The Late Nineteenth Century	17
	The Revenue Cutter service
	The Atlantic derelicts and their paths
	Sailors' supersitions and illusions
	The Portland Gale of 1898
3	The Early Years of the Twentieth Century	33
	The diverse Atlantic coastline from Maine to Florida
	The development of the wireless radio
	Jack Binns, the hero of the Republic
4	1910-1919	51
	The decline of sailing ships
	The loss of the Titanic
	The North Atlantic ice patrols
	The establishment of the U.S. Coast Guard, World War I. The Atlantic conquered by airplane
5	The 1920s	73
	The beautiful lighthouses along the Atlantic coast
	The era of the rum runners
	The S-4 tragedy and the loss of the Vestris
6	The 1930s	101
	The saga of the lightships
	The Morro Castle disaster
	The 1938 hurricane and its aftermath
7	The 1940s	121
	The outbreak of World War II. The fire aboard the Normandie
	The submarine warfare in the Atlantic and the loss of the Oakey L. Alexander
8	The 1950s	149
	The grounding of the battleship Missouri
	Two tankers broken in half off Cape Cod
	The collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer Hobson
9	The 1960s	179
	The birth of the electronic age
	The Constellation fire and the loss of the atomic submarine Thresher
	Coast Guard battles with drug smugglers
10	The 1970s	189
	The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel closed by a ship collision
	The modern Lloyds underwriters
	Environmental concerns about oil spills and the wreck of the Argo Merchant
	Dangerous pesticide cargoes
11	The Discovery of Shipwrecks on the Sea Bottom	205
	Underwater wrecks
	Amateur divers seeking treasures
	Looking into submarines on the bottom
	The brig de Braak, the Santa Margarita, and the pirate ship Whidah
	The discovery of the Titanic wreckage in 1985
12	The 1980s	225
	The loss of the Marine Electric
	Modern ice patrols
	LORAN navigation
	The maritime heritage of the United States
	Bibliography	239
	Acknowledgments	241
	Index of Illustrations	243