^Lot 351 Korn: Raising the Queen

Korn, Jerry. RAISING THE QUEEN. Pocket Books, Inc., New York. 1963. 16mo. (8), 295 pages. original pictorial card covers. First Permabook Edition. English text. Ex Sacred Heart College Library. Very Good. This book recounts the fascinating, true maritime salvage of the African Queen, a massive oil supertanker that broke apart and sank off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland, in late 1958. After professional corporate salvage operations officially abandoned the vessel as a total loss, a determined independent mechanic named Lloyd Deir paired up with three friends to claim the shipwreck under open-sea salvage laws. The book details their exhausting, high-stakes battle against treacherous weather, heavy machinery failures, and pillaging boarders as they successfully engineered a way to pump out, patch up, and miraculously float the multi-million dollar ship back to port. Lot weight: 0 lbs 6oz. Subject(s): Maritime History, Marine Salvage.