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| Note from the Publisher | |
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| Preface from the 1988 Edition | |
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| Early Years along the Coast | |
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| Atlantic Coast maritime history | |
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| The early voyages, trades routes along the coastline | |
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| The Massachusetts Humane Society | |
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| The Mooncussers and the Life Savers | |
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| The Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Revenue Cutter service | |
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| The Atlantic derelicts and their paths | |
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| Sailors' supersitions and illusions | |
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| The Portland Gale of 1898 | |
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| The Early Years of the Twentieth Century | |
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| The diverse Atlantic coastline from Maine to Florida | |
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| The development of the wireless radio | |
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| Jack Binns, the hero of the Republic | |
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| 1910-1919 | |
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| The decline of sailing ships | |
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| The loss of the Titanic | |
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| The North Atlantic ice patrols | |
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| The establishment of the U.S. Coast Guard, World War I. The Atlantic conquered by airplane | |
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| The 1920s | |
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| The beautiful lighthouses along the Atlantic coast | |
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| The era of the rum runners | |
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| The S-4 tragedy and the loss of the Vestris | |
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| The 1930s | |
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| The saga of the lightships | |
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| The Morro Castle disaster | |
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| The 1938 hurricane and its aftermath | |
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| The 1940s | |
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| The outbreak of World War II. The fire aboard the Normandie | |
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| The submarine warfare in the Atlantic and the loss of the Oakey L. Alexander | |
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| The 1950s | |
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| The grounding of the battleship Missouri | |
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| Two tankers broken in half off Cape Cod | |
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| The collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer Hobson | |
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| The 1960s | |
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| The birth of the electronic age | |
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| The Constellation fire and the loss of the atomic submarine Thresher | |
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| Coast Guard battles with drug smugglers | |
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| The 1970s | |
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| The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel closed by a ship collision | |
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| The modern Lloyds underwriters | |
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| Environmental concerns about oil spills and the wreck of the Argo Merchant | |
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| Dangerous pesticide cargoes | |
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| The Discovery of Shipwrecks on the Sea Bottom | |
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| Underwater wrecks | |
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| Amateur divers seeking treasures | |
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| Looking into submarines on the bottom | |
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| The brig de Braak, the Santa Margarita, and the pirate ship Whidah | |
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| The discovery of the Titanic wreckage in 1985 | |
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| The 1980s | |
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| The loss of the Marine Electric | |
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| Modern ice patrols | |
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| LORAN navigation | |
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| The maritime heritage of the United States | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Illustrations | |