Shipwrecks of the California Coast:: Wood to Iron, Sail to Steam

by Michael D. White

Book Overview

More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline--Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The City of Rio de Janeiro," bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, sliced the fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery graves. Seven U.S. Navy destroyers, bound on a fateful 1923 night from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609499247
• ISBN13: 9781609499242
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"