Download or read book Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters Along the Delmarva Coast, 1632–2004 written by Donald G. Shomette and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the accounts of twenty-five ill-starred vessels -- some notorious and some forgotten until now -- this anthology provides a fascinating history of a local maritime culture and charts how the catastrophic events along the Delmarva coast significantly affected U.S. merchant shipping as a whole.