Shipwrecks Around Cape Cod

Quinn, William P.

Lower Cape Pub. Co

Fifth printing of the first edition (so stated). Clean large paperback - size approx. 8-1/2" x 11-1/2". No chipping, creasing or curling. All pages are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Thoroughly illustrated with awesome historical photographs. 230 pages with Bibliography.

Shipwrecks Around New England

Cape Cod Maritime Disasters: A collection of photographs of maritime accidents around Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard. The waters around Cape Cod contain the remains of thousands of shipwrecks. The Cape extends forty miles out into the Atlantic Ocean and has been a natural enemy of ships since man began sailing these waters early in the seventeenth century. Early photographers labored with horse and buggy transportation, and large heavy glass plate cameras to make spectacular views of wrecked schooners and square riggers, victims of the northeast storms that frequent the Cape Cod coastline. There have been many historic storms that have hit the outer shores of this exposed Massachusetts peninsula: the hurricane of August, 1635, the gale of October 3, 1841, the northeast storm of December, 1873, and the Portland gale of November 26-27, 1898. All of these gales did heavy damage to shipping along the coast and cost hundreds of lives. The Coast Guard worked to save as many sailors as possible, but Mother Nature always had the upper hand and she made the final judgment. There is a wide variety of disaster photographs in this book, ranging from groundings and sinkings, to loss by fire and explosions, along with fascinating and intriguing stories of interesting Cape Cod shipwrecks. Illustrated with more than 200 black-and-white photographs and drawings. Bibliography.

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The early Cape Codders were reported to be well preserved in their salt. The prosperous economic period in the first half of the nineteenth century was the foundation for a large part of the subsequent commercial operations in Barnstable County and the manufacture of salt was the moving force behind this development. The early colonists depended heavily on salt for food preservation in the absence of any type of refrigeration. When the supply of this product was cut off during the Revolutionary War, the people here had to make their own from sea water. This they learned to do and the intriguing story of Cape Cod and salt is here set out in fascinating detail.The fishing fleets, the packet vessels and various commercial operations were all dependent on each other and on salt during those difficult times of war. Spread far and wide along the shores of Cape Cod, the salt evaporators contributed heavily to the economy of the area, protected by monopolies and bounties during their initial years of operations. As the population of the United States grew westward, new salt sources were discovered and the manufacturing on the Cape declined. After a long period they ceased altogether but for almost one hundred years the small picturesque villages of evaporating vats on the upland beaches were strange and conspicuous attractions described by Thoreau and other early authors during their tours of Cape Cod.

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