| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index. |
| Contents |
The Outer Banks 1526-1814 -- Shipwrecks become news 1815-1838 -- The steam packet Pulaski 1838 -- The toll mounts 1838-1860 -- Ironclads and blockade runners 1861-1865 -- Catching up on lost trade 1866-1877 -- The Huron 1877 -- The Metropolis 1878-1893 -- The long day of Dunbar Davis 1893 -- Shipwrecks as a business 1893-1899 -- San Ciriaco 1899 -- From sail to steam 1899-1918 -- Unguarded shores 1918 -- Peacetime enemy 1919-1941 -- The U-boats return 1942-1945 -- The romance is gone 1946 -- Vessels totally lost on the North Carolina Coast. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters--the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shipwrecks.
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Shipwrecks. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stick, David, 1919-2009. Graveyard of the Atlantic. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1952] 0807806226 (DLC) 52010253 (OCoLC)846250 |
| ISBN |
0807867098 (electronic book) |
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9780807867099 (electronic book) |
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0807806226 |
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9780807806227 |
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