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Deep Sea Salvage
A Gowans Whyte and Robert L Hadfield
First edition, c. 1935
Hard back with dust jacket in cellophane wrapper. Dust jacket has large pieces missing from top and bottom edges. Foxing to outer edges of pages and on several pages throughout the book. Reg Vallintine bookplate on inside front cover.
A classic book about diving and salvage. Contents include the development of the diving suit (rubber and ‘shell’ suit) as well as salvage procedures before discussing specific salvage jobs such as HMS Vindictive, the gold from the Egypt, the American battleship Maine, and early attempts to recover the Grosvenor’s treasure the Armada treasure in Toberbory.
244 pages
Black and white illustrations and photographs
150 mm x 228 mm (6 in x 9 in)
1930, Sampson Low, Marsden & Co. Ltd, London
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