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Best endeavours : inside the world of marine salvage / Tony Redding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redding, Tony.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salvage.
- Salvage--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 255 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford Leigh, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, UK : ABR Co. ; [Place of publication not identified] : International Salvage Union, 2004.
- Contents:
- Strange but true
- Ships that go bang in the night
- Epic voyages
- Typhoons and other natural perils
- In time of war
- Exocets and other projectiles
- Salvors under fire
- A matter of courage
- The deep six
- Oil on the beach
- Chemical cocktails
- The art of persuasion
- Fire at sea
- Ships that go bump in the night
- Flora and fauna
- Big lifts
- An eye for a bargain
- Close calls
- Back from the brink
- Remote and difficult locations
- A matter of luck
- Spheres and other devices
- Hard aground
- Leper of the sea
- The politics of salvage
- Confronting the extraordinary
- A brush with the authorities
- Marine catastrophes
- Salvage with an audience
- Ships without a future
- The will to win.
- Notes:
- Includes ship and product index.
- ISBN:
- 1904050093 :
- 9781904050094
- OCLC:
- 57345997
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