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The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast, Volume 2 (1918-2003) by Ron Young
The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast, Volume 2 (1918-2003) by Ron Young
When telling you about Volume 1 of Ron Young's The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast last May, I wrote that Volume 2 of these excellent dictionaries of ships, diveable on the seabed from Whitby to Skegness and out to the Outer Dowsing and Cromer Knoll Shoals, would follow shortly.
It didn't. But it's here now and the wait has been worthwhile.
Volume 1 covered ships lost between 1766 and 1917 and the new book takes us to the present with ships lost from 1918 to 2003; some 500 wrecks in the two.
These books almost deserve Ron's title of 'Comprehensive' and it is unlikely that anyone will ever do better as far as the North-east (another of his two-volume works) and East coasts are concerned.
Volume 2 is heavily illustrated, like its sister-book, with silhouettes of ship type if no photos are available. Each ship has depth, position, what happened to her, details of her final voyage, and a full description of the wreck site, type of seabed and surrounding marine life.
Add to that the latest diving information about the wreck's state - and even a special chapter on sunken U-boats of both World Wars in the area!
That U-boat coverage gives us a hefty clue to the next Ron Young book, due, says the publisher, early next year. Ron has nearly completed, with maritime historian Pam Armstrong, a volume with the working title The Silent Warriors, Submarines Lost Around the UK.
It will contain full details of nearly 200 British, German and French subs. Ron doesn't want to call this work comprehensive, but it sounds very like it!
Kendall McDonald
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The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast, Volume 2 (1918-2003) by Ron Young (Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0752427989). Softback, 285pp, £17.99
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