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Unfinished Voyages - A chronology of shipwrecks provides the reader with a fascinating narrative of shipwrecks and the modern techniques used to locate these drowned time capsules. It is sometimes easy to forget that history is much more than simply names and dates and that what now is rubble once was a proud vessel, and at the end, was perhaps was the scene of an intense struggle for survival. The author has woven the tales of the last voyages of selected ships and daring rescues to portray the development of American maritime commerce and the evolution of the lifesaving service into the modern Coast Guard. The book also provides practical information. The chapter [locating lost ships] is an excellent concise discussion of modern methods of discovering resting sites of old ships. The appendices which span half the length of this well-illustrated book, definitively list regional newspaper research sources, northeastern lifesaving stations and a chronology of over 5,000 vessels lost off the northeastern United States in nearly 400 years of maritime history.
Terrence M. Rioux, Diving Officer
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