Swallowed by the Sea: The Story of Australia’s Shipwrecks

‘Swallowed by the Sea’ tells the stories of Australia’s greatest and most tragic shipwrecks, lost in raging storms, on jagged reefs, under enemy fire, or through human error, treachery or incompetence. It includes wrecks from all corners of Australia, from 1622 to as recently as 2010, from clipper ships to colonial schooners to East Indiamen. Read about the oldest known wreck in Australian waters, the Tryal, driven into a maze of sunken rocks by the inept Captain Brookes, and about the loss of emigrant barque Cataraqui, which struck a reef off King Island in the middle of a stormy night, drowning more than 400 people.

The violent wrecking of ships is only part of the story. Maritime archaeologist Graeme Henderson has personally located and dived many of the shipwrecks in this book. Alongside his accounts are colour underwater photographs of the dive sites with specially written recollections by members of the diving crew.
xii, 225 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour), facsimiles ; 27 cm #0921 Includes bibliographical references (page 206-213) and index. First Edition.
Shipwrecks — Australia — History. | Underwater archaeology — Australia — History. | Navigation — History. | Shipwrecks — Australia. | Underwater archaeology — Australia. | Australian