By P. Moir and I. Crawford

Oban and Mull area

Primarilly written for divers, Argyll Shipwrecks gives a vivid insight into seafaring life in the region. Supplementing the text with charts and photographs, this book relates varying degrees of detail on almost 400 wrecks in the waters of this beautiful area of Scottish coastline. It gives the locations and condition of many of them

By L. Wood

the story of the wrecks dotted in and around Scapa Flow, and is a tribute to those whose bodies remain forever trapped in the Royal Oak and other ships. It is well illustrated with black and white photographs from the archives and recent colour photographs of dives and historical sites. Today there are many wrecks in this haven for divers vividly described.

Pb. 127pp 170mmx250mm

By P. Moir and I. Crawford
3rd Ed.
Written primarily for divers but will also be of great interest to anglers and shipping historians.

The rich maritime history of this region is revealed beneath the waters of the Firth of Clyde. Clyde Shipwrecks uncovers for its readers the stories behind over 350 wrecks found here.

Hb.

By Rob MacDonald
2011
A gripping and exhilarating voyage into the silent darkness of the depths at the cutting edge of technical diving. Adventures from a lifetime of diving including first explorations of virgin shipwrecks lost for aeons.

A daring expedition into the heart of the feared Corryvreckan whirlpool, the third largest in the world, an open sea encounter with Orca killer whales and an agonizing attack of the bends keep the reader engrossed. The palpable gloom, despair and human tragedy of the wrecks is never far away - the cold and darkness of the depths almost resonating with the cries of those who have perished. The fear of entrapment inside a wreck is grippingly described and becomes almost claustrophobic to the reader unfamiliar with the perils of wreck penetration, when snagged nets sometimes billow unseen above the unwary diver.

Pb. 224pp 8pp colour section 240x170mm

By M. Crawford

A remarkable story of a husband and wife team who took on the world's premier marine companies and beat them at their own game - they tripled the world depth record for commercial cargo recovery

234x156mm 288p 32p colour photos. Hb

by Mark James

The greatest amphibious invasion fleet ever assembled, consisting of over 3.000 vessels, set sail from England on June 6th, 1944, for Normandy, France.

The losses that occurred have largely been forgotten but have left Normandy with a legacy of wrecks and a wreck-diver's paradise which, after 50 years beneath the waves, is only now being discovered.

Pb. 192pp 150x210mm
b/w photos

By Rod Macdonald

Ten of England's most famous shipwrecks with information on the life, history and construction of each. An Essential Information section is also included for each wreck, providing a summary of important details for divers, including depths, currents, visibility, launching, local conditions and the nearest compression facility. Illustrated with photographs, cutaway sketches and specially commissioned paintings by renowned marine artist Rob Ward. Dive England's Greatest Wrecks is the perfect companion for any wreck diver interested in exploring England's most exciting shipwrecks.

Hardback, 176pp

By R. MacDonald
Revised Ed. 2011
Dive Scapa Flow is a comprehensive and practical guide to the spectacular and famous Orkney wrecks – the colossal, intact remains of the scuttled German fleet, U-boats, steamers, tugs and Churchill’s extraordinary ‘Blockships’.

Hb. 176p

by Rod Macdonald

Fourteen of Scotland's most famous shipwrecks in this practical guide: The story of the sinking of each vessel is dramatically recounted and accompanied by a detailed description of the wreck today. Each wreck is brought vividly to life by specially commissioned illustrations and the dives are depicted with charts and underwater photographs, allowing the reader to experience at first hand the sunken treasures beneath Scotland's coastal waters.

Hardback, 208pp.

The story of Hitler's aircraft carrier 'Graf Zeppelin'

In July 2006 the wreck of a warship was found lying deep in the Baltic Sea. The ship lay largely forgotten in post-war Europe, until her accidental discovery by a Polish survey vessel, the MV Santa Barbara. Following her discovery one of the authors of this book, Cdr. Adam Olejnik, in his role as commander of a team from the Polish Navy’s Department of Underwater Work Technology, would be extensively involved in surveying the wreck site – the underwater images reproduced within the pages of this book originating from this mission.

Complimented by more than 150 images and a comprehensive set of ship’s plans, Freedom of the Seas documents the ship’s construction and other key events in her life, including her discovery and subsequent survey.

Paperback, 228pp, 210x265mm

At Scapa Flow in 1919, the German Admiral in charge of 74 of his countries warships ordered that the fleet be scuttled. The High Sees Fleet of the German Royal Navy was one of the most formidable ever built, yet 52 of the ships were deliberately sent to the bottom of the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney. The book reports that Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy on the strength of a misleading report in a four-day old British newspaper; the Royal Navy guessed his intention but could do nothing about it; the sinking produced the last casualties and the last prisoners of the war.

By S. Mills

Sister ship to the Titanic, Now lying near the Greek island of Kea, the wreck of the Britannic is a fascination to modern divers. This book, written by Simon Mills, one such diver who was driven by his own curiousity to acquire the wreck, tells the story of the ship, provided at times through the emotional eyes of personnel who survived the calamity of its loss and reinforced by his own painstaking research of government dossiers and information arising from surveys.

Hb 224pp

By R. Macdonald

To deliberately journey 10-20 miles offshore into hostile, powerful seas before diving down into those waters seeking untouched, virgin shipwrecks - often in the pitch blackness of deep water - seems incomprehensible to many people. For Rod Macdonald, however, it has been an all-consuming passion since he first started diving in 1982. Into the Abyss charts the dramatic highs and lows of his diving career - packed full of incident, drama and excitement and has taken him to all of the great shipwreck sites of the world. From the sunken Japanese Fleet at the bottom of Truk Lagoon and Palau in the Pacific to diving into the third largest whirlpool in the world - the Corryvreckan Whirlpool off the west coast of Scotland - Macdonald's work has taken him on a spell-binding journey beneath the seas. Macdonald reflects upon the excitement, the successes and the near-tragic failures of his diving career so far.

206pp Hb

By S. C. George

In 1919 the German High Seas Fleet began to sink in unison in Scapa Flow. The British Admiralty stated that salvaging the ships was an impossibility. However, from 1924, using cutting edge techniques, the battle fleet was raised and scrapped. This is the fascinating story of how it was done.

Pb. 150pp 130x200mm

By J. Fleming

Nearly 2000 tons heavier than her unfortunate sister ship Titanic and boasting a host of additional safety features installed after that tragedy four years earlier, Britannic completed only five voyages before succumbing to hostile action in the Aegean during the First World War.
The author was the Presbyterian chaplain on board the Britannic at the time, and his narrative is still the only contemporary account to be published by a survivor.

Pb. 150x210mm 44pp

By D. Preston

A comprehensive account of the sinking of Lusitania. The author draws upon a vast array of sources including interviews with survivors, letters and memoirs, recently released American and Admiralty archives, previously untranslated german documents and diving expeditions to the wreck.

Periplus Encyclopaedia vol 3

Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology

Capt. G.H.Read

A guide for boaters and divers. A guide to the practicalities of diving, refloating and towing craft.

160p Hb

By R. Vercoe

Covers 13 wrecks in the region, giving detail of the history, location, background and diving notes to each of them. There is also a 3D illustration of the dive site and space for notes. The wrecks covered are:
Carina, Carnatic, Chrisoula K
Dunraven, El Mina, Axcalibur
Giannis D, Gubal Barge, Kimon M
Kingston, Rosalie Moller, Thistlegorm, Ulysses

Also includes dives on Woodhouse Reef, Yellowfish Reef and Abu Nuhas.

140mmX203mm hole punced to insert into divers logbook

By J. Miller

this book traces the story of this remarkable place, weaving together history, eyewitness accounts and personal experiences to capture the life and spirit of Scapa Flow when it was home to thousands of service personnel and the most powerful fleet in the world.

Pb. 192pp 190x260mm 130 photos.

By M. Brown and P. Meehan

Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of dramatic incidents such as the loss of the Hampshire with Kitchener on board in 1916, the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919 and the sinking of the Royal Oak at anchor by U-boat U-47 at the beginning of the Second World War.

This book shares with us the "voices of men and women who served in two world wars in ... Scapa Flow. They are the voices of the lower deck, the barrack room, the lonely gunsite and they are as fresh and alive" now "as when we first heard them forty years ago".

Hb. 288pp 160x240mm

By Lawson Wood

This dive guide to Scapa Flow features; 3D wreck scans, highly detailed full colour maps of all locations, full colour world class photography throughout.

The definitive guide to diving Scapa Flow covering all wrecks and reef dives.
Contains a wealth of previously unpublished material.
Detailed descriptions of every dive including special conditions and unusual features.
Includes highly detailed full colour maps of all wreck locations.
Detailed historical accounts of all the wrecks.
Bottom scans and line drawings of many of the wrecks.
Suitable for all levels of experience from novice to ‘technical’ diver.

Pb. 176pp 165 x 240 mm

By S. Mills
The original account of the scuttling of the Imperial German Fleet by the man in command, Vice Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, with an introductory narrative and concluding story of the great salvage operation that followed.An extraordinary story explained by the man himself.

Pb. 128pp

By N. Clarke

The coast of Dorset and South Devon has one of the greatest densities of shipwrecks in Europe. The age and variety of wrecks encompass every period of our maritime history.
From a ship Bronze Age wreck at Salcombe to the recent and infamous cargo ship the Napoli, at Branscombe.

The book lists over 350 shipwrecks including The Miniota, Portland - The silver bullion wreck. Sunk in 1917 still listed as carrying £200,000 of silver bullion Earl of Abergavenny; Weymouth, The Valentine Tanks. Poole, LST 507; WW2 Tank Landing Craft,Medina; HMS Formidable; HMS M2; Lyme Bay. De Boot; Prawle Point.

165pp 67 pictures, 7 maps

By B. Baird
2008

Complemented with maps and charts, liberally illustrated with dramatic photographs
This is a meticulously-researched reference guide to 300 shipping losses, and the events surrounding their sinking, off the coast of Scotland from Berwick-on-Tweed to the Forth and Tay, and northwards to Stonehaven.

Each wreck is listed by area with details of position, history and fate. The text is accompanied by maps and charts and illustrated with many dramatic photographs. As a result of this meticulous work, exciting discoveries and recoveries such as ships' bells and pottery have been made by divers.

Pb. 240x170mm 288pp b/w photos

By R. Baird

This work is a reference guide to shipping losses off the coast of Scotland from Stonehaven northwards to Duncansby Head, then westwards to Cape Wrath and the Minch. Each of the wrecks is listed, under the area in which it went down, with details of its position, history and fate

By R. Young

Reference book for divers, historians and sea anglers.

The author brings his experience as a diver and an investigator of historical wreck together to produce this, the first of two volumes on wrecks of the East Coast from Skegness north to Robin Hood's Bay

Pb. 222pp 245x200mm b/w photos and diag.

By N. Middleton

The book is beautifully illustrated with sufficient detail to prepare the prospective diver of the selected wrecks to gain as much as possible from the dive.

Hb.

By Adrian Corkill

the story of vessels that have foundered around the shores of the Isle of Man, an important part of the history of the island. Because of the central location of the island in the Irish Sea it has been a permanent hazard to shipping across the ages and it is thus a haven for wreck divers. The stories are told of how the ships came to founder and the heroic and tragic tales of bravery involved in their final hours.

Other information that is given includes:

Condition of the wreck; Position in long. and lat.; Datum ; Depth.
- Access.

Pb. 170x250mm 256pp

By Anthony Lane

a visual record of the tragic events surrounding the loss of many vessels that foundered around the Kent coast. It includes some 200 photographs, drawn from many sources, plus simplified charts that depict the hazards faced by seafarers across the ages. Paintings, engravings and other images are captured to supplement the record where photographs are not available.

Pb. 128pp 165x235mm

By Catherine Rothwell

The north-west coast of England is renowned not least for its fierce storms, the inevitable consequences of which are shipwrecks, loss of life, lifeboats and daring rescues.

Illustrated with photographs and other images of wrecks, mariners and seascapes, this is unique guide to the shipwrecks of the north-west of Engalnd. Includes the 2008 shipwreck Riverdance.

Pb. 160pp 170x260mm

By R. Young and P. Armstrong

Volume 2 of this trilogy on submarine wrecks of the British Isles, focuses on the South Coast, from Beachey Head in Sussex down to the Isles of Scilly. Over 150 British submarine and U-boat wrecks in British coastal waters, specifically those in the English Channel, are described in detail, including information on the vessel's type and technical specifications, its voyage history, how it was sunk, a list of crew at the time of loss, details of the wreck site and the current state of the wreck.

Pb. 352pp 170x250mm

Presentation style book, that describes the uncovering of the ancient submerged ruins of the great city of Alexandria. Excellent underwater photography brings to life the excitement of uncovering ancient monumemts and artifacts.

Hb

By C.Green

The excavation of a royal buriel.

A ship containing the treasures of a king who was probably the last of the pagan rulers of East Anglia. The unique collection of finds, now displayed in the British museum, tell much about the East Anglian kingdom and its relations with neighbouring regimes. Inferences are drawn about Anglo Saxon immigration routes.

150p illus. inc. colour plates. Pb

By J. Jackson
2007
This book explores the fascinating world of shipwrecks and wreck diving. Their great historical interest aside, shipwrecks shelter diverse communities of marine creatures and fabulous coral growths. Wreck dives are also useful for building diving skills, affording valuable practice in negotiating challenging or confined settings.

The selection of dives includes airplanes as well as ships.Coverage is organized regionally by ocean, with the dives grouped according to the territorial waters in which they lie. There are uncounted thousands of wrecks around the world. The sites selected for this book are the 'best of the best'.

Hb. 160pp colour photos, location maps. 300x265mm

By R. Smallpage

A divers guide to the Japanese war wrecks of Truk Lagoon.

In 1944, an American task force attacked and sank 45 Japanese ships totalling 220,000 tons. There are also dozens of planes that went with them into the natural harbour of Truk Lagoon. There are still around 60 wrecks to be visited, representing the ultimate objective of any wreck diver.

This book gives detailed accounts of the most popular of Truk's wrecks along with commonsense advice for visitors to the area

Pb. 160pp 160x235mm Colour photos and b/w diagrams

Robert M. Grant

This book explains how the code breakers were able to break into the German naval codes during the First World War. Crashed Zeppelins gave some insight, but wrecked U-boats offered much more. Navy divers investigated U-boat wrecks around the U.K. and Ireland and were able to retrieve some extremely valuable intelligence.

140x220mm 178pp, 20 b/w photos. Pb.

By R. Young
2010
A unique and comprehensive guide that includes the precise position and characteristics of 285 wrecks between Whitby to Berwick - from fishing boats to submarines and steamers to warships - that were lost or sunk from the 1850s to the present day
Available for the first time in one volume!
Jam-packed full of valuable information and technical data
Significant source of information for maritime researchers, historians and divers.

Pb. 384pp 240x170mm illus.

By S. Burke

This is the story of the Graf Zeppelin, now lying wrecked in the Baltic Sea.

Launched in 1938, and measuring over a quarter of a kilometre in length, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the largest ship ever built by Nazi Germany. She was to operate the most modern carrier aircraft in the western world, and as such was feared by Great Britain’s Royal Navy

Pb. 110pp 180x250mm

By Mike Clarke
A diving guide with all that one expects in full colour throughout with photographs and maps. It is logically set out and provides key information for those proposing to dive any of the 100 recorded dives in this area; Burnt Island, North Berwick, Isle of May, Dunbar, St Abbs and Eyemouth.

From Leith Docks the river widens forming a huge estuary filled with volcanic islands and submerged pinnacles that are blasted by fierce tidal streams, providing an opportunity for some fantastic scenic diving. This is also the final resting place of hundreds of shipwrecks, many of which are of especial historical importance. For the diver there is so much to explore in these new and exciting deeper wrecks that have the added attraction of being little known.

The author has dived all the 100 sites and wrecks in the book and as a professional underwater photographer has provided truly atmospheric images that capture the special identity of these East coast wrecks and reefs. As well as his detailed knowledge of the sites, the author has also given his recommendations for dive sites, including their GPS positions, safety, and skill level required. Practical information such as dive centres, dive boats, accommodation.

Pb. 192pp 240x170mm

By J. Liddiard
2008
A guide to 25 wrecks around the UK, from Land's End to the Shetlands. It provides all the briefing material required by charter skippers, dive schools and clubs. Illustrated with diagrams, artistic drawings and photographs. Background historical notes.

The wrecks covered are: Maine (South Devon), Hispania (Sound of Mull), Lucy (Pembrokeshire), City of Westminster (Land,s End), HMS M2 (Dorset), Stassa (Western Isles), HMS Hood (Dorset), Mohegan (Lizard), Breda (Oban), UC70 (Yorkshire), Salsette (Dorset), HMS Port Napier (Kyle of Lochalsh), Somali (Northumberland), SMS Köln (Scapa Flow), Longwy (Clyde), Murree (South Devon), Gwladmena (Shetland), Stanegarth (Stoney Cove), Dakotian (Pembrokeshire), Chadwick (Skye), Bretagne (East Devon), Gobernador Bories (Scapa Flow), Witte Zee (Isle of Wight), Volnay (Lizard), Thesis (Sound of Mull).

Pb. 165pp 183x235mm
Colour photos throughout

A shipwreck chart showing details of over 250 wrecks around the Pembrokeshire coast. Includes details about the wrecks.