America's lost treasure
By: Tommy Thompson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlanta Monthly Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Central America (Ship) -- Pictorial works.; Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Pictorial works.; Treasure-trove -- Pictorial works.; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Pictorial works.
Description: "Pictorial account of the sinking and recovery of the United States Mail Steamship, Central America. The sinking of the Central America in a hurricane in 1857, was America's worst peacetime sea disaster. The ship was recovered in 1989, in an operation that developed the most groundbreaking marine-recovery technology in existence". -- Jacket.
Notes: "A Roundtree Press book."
Includes index.