Book - Banknotes Salvaged, Looted, or Lost from Shipwrecks, 90 pages, 2024

Description: This updated study covers all 52 known shipwrecks and confiscated cargoes of consigned banknotes from 45 countries, 14 printers, and 3 paper mills from 1779 to 2019. The updated book features: Perfect binding with thicker 80# coated paper.Most shipwrecks have a chart with banknotes involved, color map of wreck site, image of ship, and color banknote images.Lost ships was 36 , now 52Date ranges of losses was 1882 to 1979 now 1779 to 2019Banknote printers with lost consignments was 8 now 14Banknote denominations was 74 now 105 - from 45 countries Pages was 56 now 9022 of the 52 losses reported occurred during WWII! Save one, all the other 21 losses were due to military action. The exception can be considered a loss due to war as well. The Politician ran aground, taking a dangerous route to avoid detection. Another fact most history buffs know is the Nazi submarine crews did not offer aid to their prey once torpedoed or shelled. This was NOT the case at the start of the war! From the book “In August 1942, U-156 sank the British passenger ship Laconia, which carried more than 2,700 crew and passengers, of whom 1,800 were Italian prisoners of war. U-156 spent some days looking after survivors of the Laconia until Vichy French vessels could rescue them. Though the U-boat was clearly marked with a Red Cross and was surrounded by Laconia survivors on rafts and on the deck of the submarine, it was attacked by an American aircraft. The incident spurred the Kriegsmarine (war navy) to order its submariners not to provide any kind of aid to the survivors of ships that they sank.” The types of losses include, ship ran aground, purposely scuttled, torpedoed, bombed, ran into a mine, caught fire, ran into another ship, hull damage from ice, and swamped in storm.

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