Taking the Sea
Sunday, April 5, 2009, 5:00 p.m. In the Maritime Library.
Maritime author and historian Dennis Powers will discuss his new book, Taking the Sea, which tells of the maritime business of wrecking, or ship salvaging, and the operations of Captain Thomas P.H. Whitelaw, an emigrant Scot who, beginning as a hard-hat diver in San Francisco in the late 1860s, founded a marine-salvage empire covering the California and Pacific Northwest coasts.
TIA: This is the library where I work.
2 comments:
My Abaco (Bahamas) ancestors reportedly made their living from wrecking. Wish I could have attended this talk; it sounds interesting.
I'm hoping they'll considering podcasting these events.
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