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The Chronicle of the Unfortunate Voyage in Island of Hvar Waters
Marinko Petrić
; Muzej hvarske baštine, Hvar, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper brings to light historic data about various maritime disasters, shipwrecks, sinking, damages, ships stranding ashore, people perishing, maritime clashes, fires and other disasters.
Facts are presented in chronologic order from the first written document of the disaster on the premises in the 4th c B.C. up to the1960s in the 20th c. A.D.
They are collected out of various written sources such as official maritime reports, notaries marks, chronicles, newspaper reports, historic reviews all the way to individual oral reports.
Summed up in one place, all of these120 items represent direct and vivid insight into maritime history of the island of Hvar, especially in regard to the variety of sail journey.
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241275
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Publication date:
9.10.2019.
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