Invincbile Books

After collecting my diving gear and a couple of charged air cylinders, I set off. On my approach along the narrow spit of land leading out to the ferry point, I saw Wishbone moored alongside the little wooden jetty and could hear the single cylinder SABB diesel engine patiently throbbing away. Arthur sat in the stern eager to get going and find out just what it was that kept calling him back to that same spot some three miles off shore.

As I recall, the day was quite misty, lowering the visibility to less than one mile. Wishbone is a small 16 ft open fishing boat and does not have the luxury of a satellite navigation system or even a depth sounder. To find anything once offshore is purely down to sighting co-ordinates on the land. It took us an hour to get to the approximate area. We chugged around, out of sight of land for a further half an hour when purely by chance, one of the marker buoys left by Arthur slowly appeared through the mist. There was a very hard running spring tide full on the ebb, which made diving almost impossible. However, by the time we had picked up the marker bouy, sorted my diving gear in readiness for the dive, we were nearly at low water. This meant the tide had almost stopped running in readiness to change direction from ebb to flood. This gave me roughly half an hour in which to investigate this uncharted seabed anomaly that Arthur was so fired up about.

We were approximately three miles out to sea; roughly, due south from the entrance to the harbour we had left behind nearly two hours before and at this point we could not see land through the ever-thickening haze. In every direction, the glassy surface of the sea merged with and at the same time disappeared into the still, silent mist. Diving under these conditions is always very eerie, but to do so not knowing how deep the water is (remember there is no depth sounder on Wishbone), nor what to expect once down there made it doubly eerie.

John M Bingeman has written and published this superb book about the excavation of the Royal Navy's First Invinicble. The book includes detailed diagrams and images of the artefacts recovered.

Front Cover	Back Cover
RRP £40 GBP.
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	After collecting my diving gear and a couple of charged air cylinders, I set off. On my approach along the narrow spit of land leading out to the ferry point, I saw Wishbone moored alongside the little wooden jetty and could hear the single cylinder SABB diesel engine patiently throbbing away. Arthur sat in the stern eager to get going and find out just what it was that kept calling him back to that same spot some three miles off shore. As I recall, the day was quite misty, lowering the visibility to less than one mile. Wishbone is a small 16 ft open fishing boat and does not have the luxury of a satellite navigation system or even a depth sounder. To find anything once offshore is purely down to sighting co-ordinates on the land. It took us an hour to get to the approximate area. We chugged around, out of sight of land for a further half an hour when purely by chance, one of the marker buoys left by Arthur slowly appeared through the mist. There was a very hard running spring tide full on the ebb, which made diving almost impossible. However, by the time we had picked up the marker bouy, sorted my diving gear in readiness for the dive, we were nearly at low water. This meant the tide had almost stopped running in readiness to change direction from ebb to flood. This gave me roughly half an hour in which to investigate this uncharted seabed anomaly that Arthur was so fired up about. We were approximately three miles out to sea; roughly, due south from the entrance to the harbour we had left behind nearly two hours before and at this point we could not see land through the ever-thickening haze. In every direction, the glassy surface of the sea merged with and at the same time disappeared into the still, silent mist. Diving under these conditions is always very eerie, but to do so not knowing how deep the water is (remember there is no depth sounder on Wishbone), nor what to expect once down there made it doubly eerie.
Wrap around cover	Above - Part of a typical story line

Within UK = £3 + £0.66p p&p UK - TOTAL £3.66 GBP	Rest of Europe - £3 + £1.20 - TOTAL £4.20 GBP
Written by me, Granddad John, dedicated to my grandchildren.


Front Cover	Back Cover	Typically illustrated Page

Written by Brian Lavery, the book is in A4 format with 119 pages. It has many illustrations including a magnificent 800mm long pull out showing the construction details of a French two-decker of the 1880's. A limited number were published and there are now only a few left for sale from my own private collection.

Contents of book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Building the ship
2	Service in the French Navy
3	Purchase and Fitting Out
4	Service in 1748
5	Working the Ship
6	Peacetime Service and Repairs
7	Flagship of the Western Squadron
8	Life on Board
9	The Voyage to Louisbourg
10	The Loss of the Invincible
11	Excavating the Wreck


Currently available
Hard back edition (incl p&p within the U/K)	£24.95
Paper back edition (incl p&p within the U/K)	£19.95

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