SHIPWRECKS AND SALVAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: 1505 TO THE PRESENT BY MALCOLM TURNER

"SHIPWRECKS AND SALVAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: 1505 TO THE PRESENT" BY MALCOLM TURNER. HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 224 PAGES, IN GOOD CONDITION, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES. 

The subject of shipwrecks has always been a fascinating one, and the treacherous South African coast the scene of a great number of shipping dis-asters. Some have become famous, such as the wrecking of the Grosvenor or the Birkenhead, while others are generally unknown. In this book, the result of more than eight years' diligent and painstaking research, the author has brought together facts about close on a thousand wrecks that have occurred on the coast of South Afri-ca, from the earliest recorded Portuguese wreck, that of a vessel of which the name has been lost to us, in 1505, to the latest notable shipwreck, that of the Daeyang Family, in 1986.