Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas
The seas of northern Europeare some of the most heavily travelled in history and there are literallythousands of wrecks lying in quite shallow water.
Many of these are high-value, either in financial terms or because of their potential contribution to historical knowledge – but few have been precisely located.
This book identifies around 300 such sites, giving concise details of ship, voyage, cargo and current state of knowledge. This represents a large proportion of the most valuable wrecks in the designated area.
Featured are fifteen detailed case studies of wrecks chosen to illustrate the range of problems and rewards likely to be encountered by anyone diving on these sites. These cover the last two thousand years and include a wide variety of ship types, from a Roman trading vessel to a German liner sunk in the Baltic by the Russians in 1945.
Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas is heavily illustrated and is a practical guide for divers as well as entertainment for armchair adventurers.
Nigel Pickford inherited his interest from his father and is now acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on the whereabouts of high-value wrecks. He is the author of four previous books, including the bestselling Atlas of Shipwreck and Treasure.
Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas
By Nigel Pickford
Published by Chatham Publishing
ISBN 9 7818 61762504
Hardback, 224 pages
Price £19.99
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