Hidden History of Maritime New Jersey

“Weaves exciting tales with historical and diving facts, peppered with antique illustrations of ships and photographs of their remains” ( Courier-Post ). An estimated three thousand shipwrecks lie off the coast of New Jersey—but these icy waters hold more mysteries than sunken hulls. Ancient arrowheads found on the shoreline of Sandy Hook reveal Native American settlement before the land was flooded by melting glaciers. In 1854, 240 passengers of the New Era clipper ship met their fate off Deal