Timothy Dring: 2 books
US Life-Saving Service
Florida's East Coast
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Ten houses of refuge, unique to Florida's east coast, were constructed by the US Life-Saving Service between 1876 and 1886. When ships traveling along the almost uninhabited coast were grounded or wrecked on reefs, survivors often made it to land but had no way to reach civilization. House of refuge...
by Captain Robert F. Bennett, Susan Leigh Bennett, Commander Timothy R. Dring
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In 1854, two horrendous shipwrecks took place off the New Jersey coast. The Powhattan and the New Era were both American-flag sailing packet ships carrying hopeful European immigrants to new lives in America. The ships ran aground on the offshore sandbars along the shoreline between Sandy Hook and...