MAYDAY! Shipwrecks, Tragedies & Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore
Reviews with Integrated Context
Books You May Like
MAYDAY! Shipwrecks, Tragedies & Tales from Long Island's Eastern Shore
Author: Van R. Field
Publisher: The History Press
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 96
Cover Price: $ 17.99
Enter a word or phrase in the box below
Since the mid-1600s, eastern
Long Island's shoals, sandbars and assorted submerged hazards have caused many an unlucky vessel to shipwreck. In this compendium, Field painstakingly assembles some of Long Island's most harrowing, amazing and notorious shipwrecks and ocean-going incidents.
Background Information
Long Island, a product of the last Ice Age, is largely rural in the east but part of America's largest city in the west.