num_pages: 364
description: The author describes undersea searches for such fabled ships as the  Cumberland, a Union frigate sunk during the Civil War; the  U-21, the first German sub to sink a warship during WWI &amp; escape; and others. B&amp;W photos.The steamboat Lexington. Through by daylight --1840 --Enter NUMA --1983 --The Republic of Texas Navy Ship Zavala. A sweet-handling ship --1836-1842 --Ship in a parking lot --1986 --U.S.S. Cumberland and C.S.S. Florida. Her flag still flying --1862 --She-devil of the Confederacy --1864 --Where did they go? --1980 --Back with a vengeance --1982 --C.S.S. Arkansas. The gauntlet --1862 --Go down to the levee --1981 --U.S.S. Carondelet. The river war --1862 --Some days you can't win --1982 --The Confederate Submarine Hunley. The little sub that could ... and did --1864 --The toughest find of all --1980 --Once more with feeling --1981 --If at first you don't succeed --1994 --The lost locomotive of Kiowa Creek. Journey to nowhere --1878 --One that got away --1989. Cont.): H.M.S. Pathfinder, U-21, and U-20. Death from the depths --1914 --Down in eighteen minutes --1915 --I'd rather be in Hawaii --1984 --The troop transport Léopoldville. Silent night, deadly night --1944 --Curses, foiled again --1984 --They can't be found if you don't look. Postscript --Current list of national underwater &amp; marine agency shipwreck surveys and discoveries --Foreign ships discovered and surveyed --Additional sites surveyed
language: English
title: The Sea Hunters
titlecomplete: The Sea Hunters (The Sea Hunters #1)
genres: Action, Biography, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Nonfiction, Archaeology, Autobiography, Maritime, History
ratings_count: 2480
series: The Sea Hunters
publisher: Simon & Schuster