References for Student Projects in Marine Forensic Investigations

Most Recommended Reading:

Benford, H., “2006 Naval Architecture for Non-Naval Architects”, SNAME.org This introductory level text is perfect for students of all ages.

Simpson, P.D., “Alive on the Andrea Doria”; 2008 This excellent book written by Marine Forensics Committee Member and Andrea Doria Survivor Pierette Simpson, combines survivor accounts with realistic analysis of what caused the accident and how the disaster unfolded.

Sims, P., “2003 Comparative Naval Architecture of Passenger Ships”, SNAME 2003 Marine Forensics Committee member Phil Sims writes a fascinating analysis of the evolution of passenger ships that includes such things as why the Titanic was not afraid of icebergs.

Parker, B., “The Power of the Sea”; MacMillan, 2010. This new book offers a very clear explanation of ocean waves, swells, storm surges, rogue waves and tsunamis in easy to understand laymans terms.

Ferreiro, L.D, “Ships and Science, The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution 1600-1800”, MIT Press, Cambridge MA

References by Members of the SNAME Marine Forensics Committee:

Cameron, J., Dulin R.O. Jr., Garzke, W.H. Jr., .Jurens, W., Smith, K.M.Jr., "The Wreck of the DKM Bismarck, A Marine Forensic Analysis"; Presented at the SNAME annual Meeting 2008

Garzke, W.H. Jr., Brown, D.K., Sandiford, A.D., Woodward,J., Hsu,P.K., "The Titanic and Lusitania: A Final Forensic Analysis"; Marine Technology October 1996 Vol. 33, No. 4 Pages 241-289

Garzke, W.H. Jr., Brown, D.K., Matthias, P.K., Cullimore, R., Wood, D., Livingstone, D., Leighly, H.P., "Titanic, The Anatomy of a Disaster: A Report from the Marine Forensic Panel (SD-7)"; Transactions January 1997 Vol. 150 Pages 3-62

Faulkner, D., "An Independent Assessment of the Sinking of the MV Derbyshire", SNAME Transactions VOL 106, 1998, pp59-103

Ferreiro, L.D, “Ships and Science, The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution 1600-1800”, MIT Press, Cambridge MA

Garzke, W.H. Jr., Gatto, Capt. S. "The loss of the Beth Dee Bob" SNAME Transactions 2002 pp385 - 407

Smith, K.M. Jr., Garzke, W.H. Jr., Dulin R. Jr., Bemis, F.G Jr., Filling C., "Marine Forensics- Historic Shipwrecks Determination of the Root Cause"

Dulin R.O. Jr., Garzke, W.H. Jr., Haberlein, C., Jr., Egan, R., Mindell, D., Jurens, W., "The Loss of the USS Yorktown (CV-5)-A Marine Forensic Analysis"; SNAME Transactions Volume 107, 1999, pp1-45

Garzke, W.H. Jr., Dulin R.O. Jr., (Webb, T.G. Illustrator); "The Bismarck Encounter", Presented to the Chesapeake Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, June 5, 1991

Sims, P., Moyer, J., Gatto, S., "The Decay of the Andrea Doria" Published by SNAME 2010

Jons, O. P. “Remember the MAINE”

Garzke, W. H. Jr., Woodward, J., "Titanic Ships, Titanic Disasters, An Analysis of Early White Star and Cunard Superliners"; SNAME 2002

Hooper, J.J, Foecke, T., Graham, L., Weihs, T.P., “Metallurgical Analysis of Wrought Iron from the RMS Titanic”; Marine Technology, April 2003, Vol 40, No. 2 (ISSN 0025-3316) pp73

Woytowich, R., “Rivented Hull Joint Design in RMS Titanic and Other Pre—World War I Ships”; Marine Technology, April 2003, Vol 40, No. 2 (ISSN 0025-3316) pp82

Garzke, W. H. Jr., “Preface to Recent Studies Involving RMS Titanic”: Marine Technology, April 2003, Vol 40, No. 2 (ISSN 0025-3316) pp71

Books: Non-Fiction: American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) “Guidance Notes on the Investigation of Marine Incidents”, published in June of 2005. (This is mostly a book of forms and lists)

Ballard, R. D, McConnell, M., “Adventures in Ocean Exploration”; National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 2001

Ballard R. D, Archbold, R., “The Discovery of the Bismarck”; Warner / Madison Press, 1990

Bass, G.F., “Archaeology Beneath the Sea, A Personal Account”; 1975 Walker and Company New York.

Bass, G.F., et al, “Beneath the Seven Seas; Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology”; 2005, Thames & Hudson, London.

Bass, G.F., et al., “Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas, A History Based on Underwater Archaeology”, Thames and Hudson, London 1988

Bascom, W., “Deep Water, Ancient Ships” 1976, Doubleday, New York.

Bascom, W, "Waves and Beaches, the Dynamics of the Ocean Surface"; Published by Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1964

Bascom, W, "The Crest of the Wave, Adventures in Oceanography"; Published by Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1988

Benford, H., “Naval Architecture for Non-Naval Architects”, SNAME.org This introductory level text is perfect for students of all ages.

Busby, Frank, “Manned Submersibles”; Office of Naval Research 1976.

Carver, A., “Simple Ship Stability, A Guide for Seafarers and Fishermen”; Published by Fairplay Publications Ltd, Coulsdon, Surrey, UK, (no date given, approx 1990 by latest date cited)

Dean, R.G., Dalrymple, R.A., “Water Wave Mechanics for Engineers and Scientists”; World Scientific, 1998 printing.

Ferreiro, L.D, “Ships and Science, The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution 1600-1800”, MIT Press, Cambridge MA

Garzke, W. H. Jr., Woodward, J., "Titanic Ships, Titanic Disasters, An Analysis of Early White Star and Cunard Superliners"; SNAME 2002

Marx, R.F., “The Underwater Dig; An Introduction to Marine Archaeology”; 1975, H.Z. Walck Inc New York.

Maury, M.F., ”Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology”; 1861, Sampson Low, Son & Marsten, Fleet Street, London. available in full text on-line several places and in reprints.

Mengot, R.F., Woytowich, R.T., “The Breakup of Titanic: A Progress Report from the Marine Forensics Panel (SD-7), Marine Technology, Vol. 47, No.1 January 2010, pp37-46

Miller E. M.,”USS Monitor, The Ship That Launched A Modern Navy”; 1978 Leeward Publications Inc., Annapolis, Maryland

Muckelroy, K., “Maritime Archaeology”; 1978 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Parrott, D., “Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta”, (International Marine Publishing, Camden, Maine ) January 2004.

Randall, R.E., “Elements of Ocean Engineering”; Published by SNAME 1997

Ruppe, C.V., Barstad, J.F., Editors, "2002 International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology", part of the Springer series on Underwater Archaeology, 2002

Shomette, D. “2007 Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004”; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Shomette, D. Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807

Shomette, D. Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake: Maritime Disasters on Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries, 1608- 1978 Flotilla: The Patuxent Naval Campaign in the War of 1812 (Johns Hopkins)

Shomette, D. Maritime Alexandria : the rise and fall of an American entrepôt

Shomette, D. Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672-1674 3 copies

Shomette, D. The Hunt for HMS De Braak : Legend and Legacy.

Shomette, D. Flotilla: Battle for the Patuxent: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1981

Shomette, Donald G. (2000). Lost towns of tidewater Maryland. Centreville: Tidewater Publishers. Early history, including Calvert County. Shomette, Donald G. (1995). Tidewater time capsule: history beneath the Patuxent. Centreville: Tidewater Publishers. Account of Commodore Barney and his flotilla in the War of 1812.

Steffy, J. Richard, Wooden Shipbuilding and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks”, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994

Throckmorton. P (editor) “The Sea Remembers, From Homers Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic, Shipwrecks and Archaeology.” Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York.

Ubelaker, Douglas, “2008 Human Skeletal Remains, Excavation, Analysis, Interpretation”; Third Edition, Manuals on Archaeology 2, 1978 through 2008, Taraxacum Publishing Washington DC.

Ubelaker, D. & Scammell, H., “2006 Bones, a Forensic Detecive’s Casebook”; 1992 & 2006, M. Evans, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing group, inc., Lanham, MD

Maples, W. R., “2001 Dead Men Do Tell Tales, The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist”, 1994, 2001, Broadway Books a division of Random House.

Books: Historical Fiction and Partial Fiction explaining or dramatizing historical facts.

Avi., “I witness Iron Thunder, the battle between the Monitor and the Marrimac, A civil War Novel, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2007

Bercuson, D.J., Herwig, H.H., "The Destruction of the Bismarck"; Overlook Press 2001

Butler, D., “Lusitania, a Novel”, Random House, New York, 1982

Campbell, D.A., “The Seas Bitter Harvest, Thirteen Deadly Days on the North Atlantic”; Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2002

Cussler, C., Dirgo C,. “The Sea Hunters, True Adventures With Famous Shipwrecks”, Pocket Star Books, New York

Drury, R., Clavin, T., “Halsey’s Typhoon, The True Story Of A Fighting Admiral An Epic Storm And An Untold Rescue”; Grove Press, New York, 2007

Hamilton-Patterson, J., “Three Miles Down, a Hunt for Sunken Treasure”;The Lyons Press 1999.

Junger, S., “The Perfect Storm, A True Story Of Men Against The Sea”, Harper-Perennial, 1997

Kinder, G., "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea"; Atlantic Monthly press 1998 (Chronicles the wreck of the steamship Central America laden with gold from the California gold fields and the San Francisco Mint and it's subsequent salvage)

Kurson, R., “Shadow Divers”; Random House, 2004

McMurray, K.F., “Deep Descent, Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria”, Pocket Books, 2001

Mowat, F., “The Grey Seas Under, The Perilous Rescue Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug”; The Lyons Press, 1958

Nichols, P., “A Voyage for Madmen, Nine Men Set Out To Race Each Other Around The World, Only One Made It Back”: Harper Collins Publishers, 2001

Parker, B., “The Power of the Sea”; 2010, Palgrave Macmillan

Polmar, N.,”The Death of the USS Thresher, The Story Behind Histories Deadliest Submarine Disaster”; Lyons Press, Guilford, CT, 1964, 2001, 2004

Pratt, F.,”The Monitor and the Merrimac”Random House New York, 1951

Ratigan, W., “Great Lakes Ship Wrecks and Survivals, Including The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”, Galahad Books, 1994

Raymer, Edward C.,USN, "1941 Descent into Darkness, The True story of a Navy Diver, Pearl Harbor 1941.”

Sontag, S., Drew C., Drew A. L., “Blind Man’s Bluff, the Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage“; 1998 Harper Paperbacks, NY, NY

Symonds, C.L., “Decision at Sea, Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History”; Oxford University Press, 2005

Waldron, T., "Pride of the Sea, Courage, Disaster, and a Fight for Survival"; Kensington Publishing Corp. New York 2004 An account of the Sinking of the "Pride of Baltimore"

Technical papers:

Cameron, J., Dulin, R. O. Jr., Garzke, W., H. Jr., Jurens, W., Smith, W.K.M. Jr., "2008 The Wreck of DKM Bismarck A Marine Forensics Analysis"; Presented at ASNE Day 2008, Alexandria VA.

Garzke, W. H. Jr., Dulin, r. O. Jr., Webb, T. G., "1991 The Bismarck Encounter"; Presented to the Chesapeake Section of the Society of Naval Architects and marine Engineers, June 5th, 1991

Ghys, R., Cormack, N. W., “2004 An Investigation into the Loss of the Steel Bark Admiral Karpfanger ex L’Avenir”, Marine Technology, Vol 42, October 02, pp 141-160

Hultquist, T.R., Dutter, M.R., Schwab, D.J., “2006 Reexamination of the 9-10 November 1975 “Edmund Fitzgerald” Storm Using Today’s Technology”; Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, pages 607- 622, May 2006

Larson, B., Burnside, P., “2009 Analysis of USS Frank Cable (AS-40) Boiler Casualty”; SNAME 2009 Proceedings

Limberg, P. R., “The Ship that Toppled a Government, The Strange case of the Lucona”;2004, Deep_sea_allabout

Marine Accident Report SS EDMUND FITZGERALD Sinking in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975, Report No. NTSB-MAR-78-3, Report Date: May 4, 1978, National Transportation Safety Board Bureau of Accident Investigation Washington, D.C. 20594

Nicolaysen, N, “The Viking Ship from Gokstad” reprinted in 1982 in Norwegian and English. ISBN 82- 996820-0-2

Price, M., Werenskiold, P., Tvete, M.R. , “2008 Wolfson Unit Report Number 2065. Towing Tank Tests on Two Hull Variations of the Viking Ship Oseberg” Marintek/Sintef, December 2008 MT53 F08-294, Osebergskip, S. N.

Ricard, J.P., “The Andrea Doria-Stockholm Disaster”. ASNE Journal, February 1957.

Salvesen, N., Tuck, E.O., Faltinsen, O. “Ship Motions and Sea Loads”; SNAME Transactions, Volume 78, 1970, pp 250-287 This is one of the most important papers ever written in Naval Architecture

Schmitke, R.T., “Ship Sway, Roll, and Yaw Motions in Oblique Seas”; SNAME Transactions, Vol 86, 1978, pp 26-46

Sims, P., “Comparative Naval Architecture of Passenger Ships”, SNAME 2003 Marine Forensics Committee member Phil Sims writes a fascinating analysis of the evolution of passenger ships that includes such things as why the Titanic was not afraid of icebergs.

Weinblum, G., St Denis, M., “On the Motions of Ships at Sea”, Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Volume 58, 1950 This is one of the most important papers ever written in Naval Architecture

USCG Supplemental Report on the Disappearance of the Comercial Fishing Vessel Linda E (O.N. 236906), Withe Three Crewmembers Near Port Washington, WI on Lake Michigan on December 11,1998, Report Issued October 2, 2000

Joint Investigation, “Report Of Investigation Into The Circumstances Surrounding The Grounding Of The Monarch Of The Seas On Proselyte Reef In Great Bay, Philipsburg, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles On December 15, 1998”, April 2003, Maritime Investigator in Oslo and the United States Coast Guard, Office of Investigations and Analysis, Washington, D.C.

MSC Napoli Investigation, “Report on the investigation of the structural failure of MSC Napoli”, English Channel on 18 January 2007”, Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Carlton House, Carlton Place Southampton United Kingdom, Report No 9/2008

Web Resources:

The Wrecksite.eu This site lists many thousands of shipwrecks with great details all around northern Europe. http://www.maib.gov.uk/home/index.cfm This is the UK Marine Accident Investigations branch. The website contains many case histories.

http://bostonshipwrecks.org/ This shows shipwrecks of Boston Harbor.

Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) http://www.gue.com/

International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) http://www.iantd.com/

Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) http://www.padi.com/scuba/

Technical Diving International (TDI) http://www.tdisdi.com/

http://www.stolasgeospatial.com/ships.html (Great lakes Shipwrecks site)

http://www.wreckhunter.net/

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/shipwrck.htm

http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/cats/shipwreck.htm (Site sells charts with known shipwreck locations on them for many areas of the US Coastline)Advanced Level References: Allmendinger, E.E., (Editor), "1990 Submersible Vehicle Systems Design"; SNAME 1990

Belenky, V.L., Sevastianov, N.B., “Stability and Safety of Ships, Risk of Capsizing”: Second edition, SNAME press 2007

Bhattacharyya, R. “1978 Dynamics of Marine Vehicles.” Wiley Interscience Publications, 1978. (This Excellent book is written by a professor at the US Naval Academy)

Brebbia, C.A., Walker, S.,"1979 Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Structures", published by Newnes- Butterworths, 1979

Lewis E.V Editor, “Principles of Naval Architecture”; Lewis E.V Editor, SNAME, 1989, (3 volumes) (Note that this is the standard text / reference book for Naval Architects) Newest version is many volumes.

Lewandowski, E.M., “The Dynamics of Marine Craft, Maneuvering and Seakeeping”; World Scientific, 2004