Texas Shipwrecks

by Mark Lardas

Book Overview

The Texas coastline and offshore waters are flat, shallow, featureless, and filled with shoals. Texas waters are subjected to extreme weather, not just hurricanes and tropical storms but also northers and seasonal gales. This, combined with two centuries of naval warfare off Texas waters, produced many shipwrecks of all sorts, from Spanish treasure fleets to simple working boats. The ships of pirates, navies, cotton traders, immigrants, fishermen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467116173
• ISBN13: 9781467116176
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"