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Commercial salvage is one of the world’s most secretive trades — Dick Jolly spent a lifetime in it. In Wreck, Rescue and Salvage (2006), the Australian tugmaster opens his logbooks on the ships that sank, burned, and ran aground — and on the men who went out to bring them back.
Jolly joined the Australian Merchant Navy at sixteen and qualified as both marine engineer and Foreign Going tugmaster — a rare combination that took him from Singapore, his base at the heart of global salvage operations, across every major ocean. His stories read like adventure fiction, except they happened: blazing vessels dragged off rocky shorelines, derelict ships towed thousands of miles through empty ocean, desperate rescues of stranded crews in remote Pacific waters.
Written with an engineer’s clarity and a storyteller’s timing — among the most memorable episodes, the cruise ship World Discoverer wrecked in the Solomon Islands. Maritime enthusiasts will devour it; armchair adventurers will find it hard to put down.
Commercial salvage is one of the world’s most secretive trades — and Dick Jolly spent a lifetime in it. In Wreck, Rescue and Salvage (Whittles Publishing, 2006), the Australian tugmaster opens his logbooks on the ships that sank, burned, and ran aground, and on the men who went out to bring them back.
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nJolly joined the Australian Merchant Navy at sixteen and qualified as both marine engineer and Foreign Going tugmaster, a rare combination that took him from Singapore — his base at the heart of global salvage operations — across every major ocean. His stories read like adventure fiction, except they happened: blazing vessels dragged off rocky shorelines, derelict ships towed thousands of miles through empty ocean, desperate rescues of stranded crews in remote Pacific waters.
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nAmong the book’s most memorable episodes is the story of the cruise ship World Discoverer, wrecked in the Solomon Islands — a salvage operation that tested every skill Jolly owned.
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nWritten with an engineer’s clarity and a storyteller’s timing, this is a rare insider’s view of deep-sea towing and marine salvage: the technical puzzles, the weather, the nerve. Maritime enthusiasts will devour it; armchair adventurers will find it hard to put down.
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